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Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Chapter 23
Ulysses S. Grant – 18th President “Waving the bloody shirt”… 1868 - Narrowly defeats Horatio Seymour… MS, TX, VA…
“Era of Good Stealings” Widespread corruption even reaching the White
House Bribes/gifts Secretary of War William Belknap Grant’s in laws…
Grant’s “Black Friday” Big Jim Fisk “Diamond Jim”
Jay Gould
Thomas Nast
Credit Mobilier
Liberal Republicans Horace Greeley
“Go west, young man, go west”
Panic of 1873 Unwise loans…. “Hard Money” vs. Greenbacks… Demand for silver… Contraction… Resurgence of Democratic Party…
“Stalwarts” vs. “Half-Breeds” in the GOP
Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes – 19th President
Jim Crow Laws White Democrats “Redeemers”… Racial Segregation laws passed… Black voting rights restricted… Blacks kept in poverty to white landowners
Sharecropping Tenant Farming Crop Lien System
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Homer Plessy…. LA “Separate Car Act” Court rules that “separate but equal” is
constitutional under the “equal protection” clause of the 14th Amendment…
1880 – The “Solid South” Emerges
James Garfield – 20th President
Garfield assassinated by Charles Guiteau
Chester Arthur –21st President Pendleton Act 1883 Civil Service Comission…
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Election of 1884 Blaine vs.
Cleveland Mugwumps “Rum,
Romanism,
Rebellion”
Grover Cleveland – 22nd and 24th President
Benjamin Harrison – 23rd President Mckinley
Tariff
Act
BillionDollar
Congress
Populist Party
Homestead Strike (1892)
J.P. Morgan Lent the govt. $65 million …
William Jennings Bryan
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland
Largely forgettable… Didn’t solve
Tariff Issue Money Issue Labor Union Issue
