Hayes Administration - Domestic Issues
Domestic Issues
On March 5, 1877, in the course of his inaugural address, President Rutherford B. Hayes touched upon the issues his administration would address: the South and its future, civil service questions, currency problems, and foreign affairs. Reconstruction, the rebuilding of loyal southern state governments and of southern race relations on a basis other than master and slave, had dominated national politics since at least the close of the American Civil War in 1865 (See also, ). Reconstruction's end during the Hayes administration reflected more the nation's weariness of the "southern question" than the reconciliation of the issues of the Civil War era. As Reconstruction waned, Americans focused attention on the growing domestic economy.
The federal government between 1862 and 1872, had contributed a lot to the growth of industry and the railroads (See also,
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