WI US Grants near miss in securing a third term nomination had not been a miss and he had been nominated and elected. What changes? Will he be more proactice on Civil rights, Jim Crow law began about this time. What about other areas.
How would it affect Civil Rights? With a Presidency which supported the same, at least the Southern States might have been compelled to pay lip service to the same and instead of disenfranchisement they might have tried something else, say separate electorates something Grant per his memoirs supported.
He'll have trouble being proactive about anything, assuming the Congressional results are as OTL, since the GOP has only a slim majority in the House, while the Senate is equally divided. There's a lot of demand for Civil Service reform, so he might have a go at that, but in the end probably not a lot changed from Garfield and Arthur. The presidency was far less imperial in those days.
If that's the case, the most significant effect might be the breaking of the 2-term custom set up by Washington. Presidents who IOTL dropped out after just two terms might feel more confident in running for a third. Teddy Roosevelt is the most prominent example.
Well then, you could have a situation where Blacks are able to hold on to some real rights. Say perhaps it is accepted that there be Black Congressmen or two representing (perhaps Gerrymandered) heavily black districts in the Southern States. In OTL some Southern Congressmen did work hard for blacks interests but this was usually a personal effort by said Congressman, not a policy.They paid lip service anyway till about the turn of the century. Most places Blacks were not formally deprived of the franchise, just "discouraged" from exercising it. More formal disfranchisement waited a generation, till the whole Reconstruction business was buried and forgotten.
Well then, you could have a situation where Blacks are able to hold on to some real rights. Say perhaps it is accepted that there be Black Congressmen or two representing (perhaps Gerrymandered) heavily black districts in the Southern States. In OTL some Southern Congressmen did work hard for blacks interests but this was usually a personal effort by said Congressman, not a policy.
What about Foreign Policy, Grant gets US involved in the Scramble for Africa perhaps?