National Politics In The Gilded Age, 1877-1900

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National Politics In The Gilded Age, 1877-1900

• Shruti Vyas

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The Gilded Age by Mark Twain
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Campaign Strategy

• Election campaigns included brass bands, flags,
  buttons, picnics, free beer, and crowd pleasing
  oratory.
• Republicans reminded the voters of the Civil War
  and the bloody shirt and said that millions of
  veterans on the Union army had been wounded
  because of southern democrats.
• The south was solidly democratic and democrats
  had the support of the former Confederacy.

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Party Patronage
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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James Garfield
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Chester A. Arthur
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The Election of 1884
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Pendleton Act of 1881

• Set up Civil Service Commission and created a
  system by which applicants for classified federal
  jobs would be selected on basis of an exam.
• It also prohibited civil servants from making
  political contributions.

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Greenback Party

• Supporter of paper money
• Goal was to increase amount of money in
  circulation
• Creditors and investors wanted gold or silver and
  were supported by congress who passed the Specie
  Resumption Act that withdrew the last of the
  greenbacks from circulation

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The election of 1888
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Billion-dollar Congress

• The McKinley Tariff- raised tax on foreign
  products over 48
• Increases in the monthly pensions to Civil War
  veterans, widows, and children
• The Sherman Antitrust Act- limited monopolies
• Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890- increase
  coinage of silver in small amounts which would
  not satisfy farmers
• A bill that protected the voting rights of
  African-Americans which was passed by the House
  but defeated in the Senate

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Omaha Platform and Populist Party

• Unlimited coinage of silver to increase money
  supply
• Graduated income tax
• Public ownership of railroads by U.S. govt
• Telegraph and telephone systems owned operated
  by govt
• Loans and federal warehouses for farmers to
  enable them to stabilize prices for crops
• 8 hr work day for industrial workers

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The Election of 1892
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Panic of 1893

• Stock market crash due to overspeculation
• Dozens of railroads went into bankruptcy as a
  result of overbuilding

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Coxeys Army

• March to Washington
• Led by Jacob A. Coxey
• Demanded govt spend 500 million on public works
  program to create jobs.
• Coxey and a few others were arrested for
  trespassing so the others went home ?

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Election of 1896
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William McKinley
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