1. Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Period 6

2. 1868 Election Ulysses S Grant – Republican Horatio Seymour – Democrat
“waving the bloody shirt”
Horatio Seymour – Democrat

3. Corruption Jim Fisk & Jay Gould Boss Tweed’s Ring
Credit Mobilier scandal
Shares to congressmen
Whiskey Ring
Horace Greeley - Democrat

5. Economic Difficulties
Panic of 1873
Greenbacks vs. Hard-money
Silver debate
Contraction
Greenback Labor Party

6. The Gilded Age Gilded? Republicans Democrats Patronage
Puritan, Morality, regulation
Midwest, rural Northeast, Freedmen
Democrats
Luth/Cathol, toleration, less gov.
South, northern cities
Patronage

7. Election of 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes – Republican
Samuel J. Tilden – Democrat
Contested states
Compromise of 1877
Hayes winner
Withdraw troops from South
Ended Reconstruction

9. The South Civil Rights Act of 1875 Sharecropping Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson

10. Class & Ethnic Clashes RR strike - 1877 Asian immigrants
Kearneyites
Chinese Exclusion Act

11. Election of 1880 Winfield Scott Hancock – Democrat
James A. Garfield – Republican
Assassinated – 1881
Chester Arthur
Pendleton Act

12. Election of 1884 James Blaine – Republican Grover Cleveland – Democrat
Mugwumps
“Deserving Democrats”
Lowering the tariff

13. 1888 Election Grover Cleveland – Democrat
Benjamin Harrison – Republican
Voting cattle
“Billion Dollar Congress”
McKinley Tariff of 1890

14. The Populists People’s Party – Populists Homestead Strike
Farmers’ Alliance
Silver
Govt. own RRs
Shorter workday
Immigration restriction
Homestead Strike
The Black vote

15. Cleveland, take 2 Depression of 1893 Gold draining
Repeal of Sherman Silver Purchase
JP Morgan’s loan
Cleveland’s legacy