1. Gilded Age Politics
Part 1

2. The Republicans “Waving the Bloody shirt” Nationalism/ National unity
Pro-business
Northern, wealthy, Civil War vets, African-American
Nativist
Pro-tariff

3. The Democrats Southern whites & urban Northerners (poor, immigrant)
Laissez-faire & personal liberties
Disenfranchisement of AA
Anti-tariff (in theory)

4. Political Associations
The Grange (see earlier notes)
Mugwumps
Conservative reformers,
pushing for honest gov’t and civil service reform
National American Women’s Suffrage Association
Women’s Christian Temperance Union

5. The Presidents Conservative Narrow view of role of president
President= administrative job… not a leadership position!

6. James Garfield/Chester Arthur
Assassination
Charles Guiteau
Chester A. Arthur
Pendleton Act
Garfield
Arthur

7. Grover Cleveland 1st Democrat after Civil War
Served 2 non-consecutive terms
Married during Presidency
Sex-scandal
Help of the Mugwumps
ICC
Pullman Strike

8. Interstate Commerce Commission
1st federal regulatory agency
Regulating Interstate Commerce is a federal right
The Federal Gov’t can now regulate railroad rates!

9. Benjamin Harrison Sherman Anti-Trust McKinley Tariff, 1890
Vague & useless
Impossible to enforce
Ban of “illegal combinations” applied to labor unions!
McKinley Tariff, 1890

10. Election of 1896 Republicans Democrats Populists Outcome
William McKinley
Democrats
William Jennings Bryan
Cross of Gold
Populists
Outcome
McKinley