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ELECTION OF 1868
Democratic Groups Political Platform
Wealthy Eastern Democrats

Poor Midwestern Democrats

Agrarian Democrats

How did Republicans garner support for Grant? Include “waving the bloody shirt”

Discuss Jim Fisk and Jay Gould and their plot to corner the gold market.

How did the Tweed Ring display the unethical behaviors of the time period?

What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal in 1872?

ELECTION OF 1872
Candidate Issues
Horace Greeley

Ulysses S. Grant
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How does this political cartoon from the

Election of 1872 reflect the time period? (pg. 491)

Define the term “hard-money.”

What was the Resumption Act or 1875?

Why did Mark Twain dub the post-Civil War era the Gilded Age? (Consult outside sources!)

POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE GILDED AGE

Party Economic Religion Government Role Electoral Base
Democrats

Republicans

What were the beliefs of each of the following groups?

Stalwarts:

Half-Breeds:

What were the qualifications of the two candidates in the election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes and
Samuel J. Tilden?

Why was the election of 1876 disputed?

In what way did the Compromise of 1877 sacrifice the civil rights of southern blacks?
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How was the Civil Rights Act of 1875 a failure?

How did sharecropping and tenant farming impact the economic suppression of blacks?

What was the purpose of Jim Crow Laws?

What was the impact of the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896?

How is the phrase “not a Chinamen’s chance” reflective of Chinese immigrants during this time
period?

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

What was the outcome of the election of 1880?

What was the political impact of the assassination of President Garfield?

What did the Pendleton Act of 1883 accomplish?

ELECTION OF 1884
Candidate Political Party Platform
James G. Blaine

Grover Cleveland
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Mugwumps

Why did Grover Cleveland favor lowering the Civil War era tariff?
How did the lower tariff proposal cost Cleveland the presidency?

What was the McKinley Tariff and what was the impact of this tariff?

What was the platform of the newly formed Populist Party in 1892?

What were the causes of the depression of 1893?

What was the immediate impact of the depression of 1893?