He became President at the end of the Reconstruction Era of the United States through a complex Compromise of 1877.
To have as much government control and regulation to remain in power and make big decisions as a whole.
Russian Empire was the biggest...!
The answer is reason.
Philosophers of the Enlightenment believed that answer can be found
through reasoning. There were two types
of reasoning during that time. You have
rationalism that relies on deduction and Empiricism which deals with
experience. It took root due to the liberal atmosphere at the time.