The Forgettable Presidents

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Chapter 23

• The Forgettable Presidents

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Johnson is finally Gone

• Seymour vs. U.S. Grant who was waving the bloody
  shirt.
• Boss Tweed and his New York ring of corruption
  milked 200 million.
• Credit Mobilier Scandal and the Union Pacific
  Railroad. Worked at a 348 inflated price, but
  Congress was paid well for looking away.
• The Whiskey Ring excise taxes.

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Election of 1872

• Horace Greeley editor of the New York tribune
  ran against Grant. Republicans saw him as a
  communist, vegetarian, co-signer of Daviss bail
  bond.
• Grant won and the depression hit hard.
• Hard-money, silver, and Greenbacks.
• The Gilded Age according to Mark Twain

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• Republicans Democrats
• Puritanical Backgrounds Lutheran or Roman
  Catholic
• Strict Codes Less Stern
• Government morality No govt and morals
• Govt in economy Anti-war South
• Midwest rural northwest Northern immigrants
• Grateful freedmen
• Grand Army of the Republic
• (GAR) Vets

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• Republican Faction
• Stalwart (strong, steadfast) faction Half-Breed
  s
• (Lord) Roscoe Conking (senator- NY) James Blaine
  (congress Maine)
• Spoils system Demagogue
• Election of 1876
• Tilden Rutherford Hayes (Old 8 to 7,
  His Fraudulency)
• 4,036,572 4,284,020
• 165 electoral votes 184 electoral votes

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What the controversy was over

• Four states in question (Louisiana, South
  Carolina, 1 vote in Oregon,
• Florida (surprise) ) 20 electoral votes
• Compromise of 1877 established the Electoral
  Count Act
• (15 member board to count 5 senators, 5 reps, 5
  justices)
• 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats 20 electoral
  votes to Hayes (185)

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African-Americans and Minorities

• Sharecropping vs. Tenant Farming
• Jim Crow Laws
• Plessey v. Fergusson
• The Chinese and Denis Kearny
• Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

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More Forgettables

• 1880 Garfield vs. Hancock Garfield wins, then
  is shot President Arthur
• Pendleton Act 1883 and the Civil Service
• 1884 Blaine vs. Cleveland mudslinging
• 1888 Harrison vs. Cleveland
• McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 48.4
• Peoples Party/Populists Party

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To sum it up

• The Homestead Strike and Carnegie
• Stronger anti-voting laws in the South
• Depression of 1893 Treasury hurting