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Republian Ulysses Grant is elected president of the U.S.
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The transcontinental railroad is completed.
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John Rockefeller's oil company is incorporated in Ohio
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President Grant Names George William Cutris to head the Civil Service Commision
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Vice President Schuyler Colfax and members of congress including future presdient James Garfield, recieved free stock in return fot protecting Credit Mobilier, a railroad construction company, from investigation.
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The Jay Cooke and Company, an investment bank, has a nation wide financial panic, that leads to a economic depression
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President Grant's personal secretary, General O.E. Babcock, and whiskey distillers, were caught for conspiring to defraud the U.S. governement of tax revenues
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Hayes removed republican Chester A. Arthur from and important postion of patronage in New York
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Mentally unstable, Charles Guiteau shot President Garfield, and cried out, "I'm a stalwart and Arthur is president." Garfield died three months later.
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Railroad companies standardized timezones.