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1870-1879 - The Gilded Age

Date Event
January 1, 1870

Presedential Elections:Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
Samuel J. Tilden (Democratic)
January 1, 1870

Hiram Revels elected as first black senator
January 1, 1870

Presedential Elections:Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
Horace Greeley (Democratic)
January 1, 1870

Republican party convention in Philadelphia
February 21, 1870

Labor Reform Party founded and holds convention in Columbus,Ohio
July 9, 1870

Democratic convention in Baltimore
January 1, 1874

Samuel Tilden elected to governor of New York
January 1, 1875

Ohio Democrats take inflationist stand as Governor Allen embraces greenbackism
June 14, 1875

Republican convention in Cincinnati
January 1, 1876

""Greenback" Independent Party launched "
June 22, 1876

Hayes executive order that government officials take no part in politics
January 1, 1878

Bland-Allison Act allows limited coinage of silver dollars
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