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Gilded Age
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post-Civil war era. by Mark Twain book's "The Gilded Age"
"gold-plated on the outside, core made of lead |
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Ulysses S. Grant
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1869-1877. surrender of Civil War w/ Robert E. lee. republican. completion of the 1st transcontinental railroad, Black Friday stock market crash (1869). ratification of 15th amendment (1870). financial panic of 1873. political scandal: Credit Mobilier, Whiskey Ring, Belknap Scandal
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Jim Fisk and Jay Gould
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Business men and financiers helped cause stock market crash. made millions, ruined investors when they tried to corner the gold market.
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Thomas Nast
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Political cartoonist during 1860s and 1870s. Democrats = donkey. Republican's elephant. tammany tiger. corruption of the Tweed Ring. Tammany Hall in NYC = downfall of Boss tweed and supporters.
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reupublican's elephant
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Horace Greeley
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New York Tribune in 1841. For: organization of labor, high protective tariff. oppose: Mex war, woman suffrage, slavery. "Go west young man..."
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Roskoe Conkling
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Senator from NY. leader of Stalwarts/conservative wing of Republican Party after 1876.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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President 1877-1881. Comp of 1877. remove all fed troops from the South-end military Reconstruction. labor problems, strikes.
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james A. Garfield
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President 1881. last pres born in a log cabin. reunite Stalwart and Half-bree of repub party. assasinated after 4 months
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Chestar A. Arthur
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President 1881-1885. honesty and efficiency. vetoe Chinese Exclusion act, support Peddleton act (politicians seek money from big business), civil service commssion/regulate govt hiring on a merit sys basis.
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Grover Cleeveland
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President 1885-1889. 1893-1897. 1st Demo pres after war. quiet honest civil service reform-type govt. military pensions. 2nd term: repeal Sherman Silver Purchase Act, sent troops to subdue Pullman Railroad Strike, lower tariff.
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Benjamin Harrison
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pres 1889-1893. McKinley tariff, Sherman anti-Trust Act, Billion Dollar Congress, Silver Issue
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Tweed Ring
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corrupt NY politicians led by "Boss" tweed- leader of Tammany Hall. After Civil War, Tweed Ring stole millions from NYC thru bribery, contracts, dishonesty. tried, convivted, and jailed.
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Credit Mobilier
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construction Co in 1864 by stockholders to build Union Pacific Railroad. bribed congressman to sell shares of stock at 1/2 market value for favorable legislation regarding public land grants. exposed in 1873 during Grant.
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Whiskey Ring
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Grant's 2nd term. Whiskey distillers, revenue collectors, and high fed officails, avoided taxation thru fraud reports of whiskey production. most esaped w/ light punishment
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Pendleton act
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passed 1883. Civil Service Commission, required competitive examinations for some fed jobs. dismantle part of Spoils Sys.
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Mugwumps
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ind repubs, refused to support Blainefor party's rep. supported Cleveland
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Stalwarts
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conservative right wing Repub after 1876. led by Conkling. supported Grant. opposed reform of Hayes (civil service). support high tariffs and strong Reconstruction poli
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Compromise of 1877
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pres election of 1867. hayes wins against Tilden over disputed votes. South Dem = mad, but he pulled troops out of southern states. end Reconstruction, deprive freed blacks of fed protection
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after civil war
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Plessy V. Ferguson 1896
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Supreme Court reconize seperate but equal facilities for races are constitutional
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race
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Greenback Labor PArty
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political 1874. address problems of farmers and debtor groups. increase # of greenbacks in circulation, farm prices to raise, farmers more money to pay off their debts. appeal to labor, "party of the poor"
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