What was the significance of the 1876 election?

The election of 1876, the 23rd election, was truly quite significant. It was a race so close that the electoral college vote was 185 to 184, the slightest majority one can have to win. It was, in a way, 'too close to call.' There was much scandal in the Republican party, and many powerful Republicans were forced to halt their dreams because of this, one of them being Ulysses S. Grant.

The results marked the end of Reconstruction.

worcester v. georgia, legal case in which the u.s. supreme court on march 3, 1832, held (5–1) that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on native american land. andrew jackson refused to enforce the ruling, the decision form the basis for most subsequent indian law in the united states.