CHRONOLOGY

• – Ulysses S. Grant is elected president.

• – Ku Klux Klan Act.

• – Liberal Party is formed.
• – President Grant is reelected.

• – Economic depression sets in.
• – Slaughterhouse cases.
• – Colfax massacre.

• – Democrats win majority in House of Representatives.

• – In the disputed presidential election of 1876, Rutherford Hayes is declared the winner.