THE UGLIEST
AND MOST CONTENSIOUS
PRESIDENT ELECTION
IN HISTORY
History 18
Lisa Mendez
May 21, 2018
Professor Gary Roland
Lisa Mendez
History 18
Professor Gary Roland
May 21, 2018
The Presidential Election of 1876
The year was 1876. Rutherford Hayes and William Tilden were running for president.
Hayes was a Republican while Tilden was a democrat. These were rough times. The federal troops were stationed in the South to enforce the Reconstruction. The nation was suffering economically. This election was very hostile as both parties continuously bad mouthed each other. This election would be known as one of the ugliest, contentious elections of all times. Our nation has a process of electing president which is the Electoral College. The Electoral College was created at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 by …show more content…
Each state was left to decide how to choose its electors. Their options included popular election or appointment by the state legislature. There are no recorded popular vote totals for the first few presidential elections because all the state legislatures appointed their electors without the direct input of the public. They declared that the candidate with the majority of electoral votes became the president and the one who came in second would be the vice president. Everybody got something: large states got electoral votes based on their population and small states got an assurance of at least three electoral votes and a contingency procedure based on a one-state-one vote principal. Those who feared a “tyranny of the majority” got an indirect method of electing presidents. Those who were afraid of ¬¬the national government, got a method in which states mattered. Those who were in slave states got a counting method that factored in added voting strength to reflect their slave
AND MOST CONTENSIOUS
PRESIDENT ELECTION
IN HISTORY
History 18
Lisa Mendez
May 21, 2018
Professor Gary Roland
Lisa Mendez
History 18
Professor Gary Roland
May 21, 2018
The Presidential Election of 1876
The year was 1876. Rutherford Hayes and William Tilden were running for president.
Hayes was a Republican while Tilden was a democrat. These were rough times. The federal troops were stationed in the South to enforce the Reconstruction. The nation was suffering economically. This election was very hostile as both parties continuously bad mouthed each other. This election would be known as one of the ugliest, contentious elections of all times. Our nation has a process of electing president which is the Electoral College. The Electoral College was created at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 by …show more content…
Each state was left to decide how to choose its electors. Their options included popular election or appointment by the state legislature. There are no recorded popular vote totals for the first few presidential elections because all the state legislatures appointed their electors without the direct input of the public. They declared that the candidate with the majority of electoral votes became the president and the one who came in second would be the vice president. Everybody got something: large states got electoral votes based on their population and small states got an assurance of at least three electoral votes and a contingency procedure based on a one-state-one vote principal. Those who feared a “tyranny of the majority” got an indirect method of electing presidents. Those who were afraid of ¬¬the national government, got a method in which states mattered. Those who were in slave states got a counting method that factored in added voting strength to reflect their slave