Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age Chapter 23

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age Chapter 23

Ulysses S. Grant – 18 th President n n n “Waving the bloody shirt”… 1868 - Narrowly defeats Horatio Seymour… MS, TX, VA…

“Era of Good Stealings” n Widespread corruption even reaching the White House n n n Bribes/gifts Secretary of War William Belknap Grant’s in laws…

Grant’s “Black Friday” n n Big Jim Fisk “Diamond Jim” n Jay Gould

Boss Tweed n Tammany Hall

Thomas Nast

Credit Mobilier

Whiskey Ring

Liberal Republicans n Horace Greeley n “Go west, young man, go west”

Panic of 1873 Unwise loans…. n “Hard Money” vs. Greenbacks… n Demand for silver… n Contraction… n Resurgence of Democratic Party… n

“Stalwarts” vs. “Half-Breeds” in the GOP

Compromise of 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes – 19 th President

Jim Crow Laws n n White Democrats “Redeemers”… Racial Segregation laws passed… Black voting rights restricted… Blacks kept in poverty to white landowners n Sharecropping n Tenant Farming n Crop Lien System

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) n n n Homer Plessy…. LA “Separate Car Act” Court rules that “separate but equal” is constitutional under the “equal protection” clause of the 14 th Amendment…

1880 – The “Solid South” Emerges

James Garfield – 20 th President

Garfield assassinated by Charles Guiteau

Chester Arthur – 21 st President n n Pendleton Act 1883 Civil Service Comission…

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Election of 1884 n n n Blaine vs. Cleveland Mugwumps “Rum, Romanism, Rebellion”

Grover Cleveland – 22 nd and 24 th President

Benjamin Harrison – 23 rd President n Mckinley Tariff Act n Billion Dollar Congress

Populist Party

Homestead Strike (1892)

J. P. Morgan n Lent the govt. $65 million …

William Jennings Bryan

Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland Largely forgettable… n Didn’t solve n n Tariff Issue Money Issue Labor Union Issue