Rutherford Hayes #9: Reform Efforts (1877-1881); Topics covered include: President of the United States, Inaugural Address, Currency reform, Specie Resumption Act, Bland-Allison Act, Labor relations, Railroad strikes and Federal intervention, Political patronage, Political bosses, Changes at the New York Customhouse, reform in the Interior Department, and the completion of the Washington Monument
Key people: Ulysses Grant, Roscoe Conkling, Chester Arthur, Alonzo Cornell, John Sherman, John Jay, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., L. Bradford Prince, Edwin Merritt, Silas Burt, Chauncey Depew, Carl Schurz, and George Washington
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