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Republican nominee, won nomination of 1876
leads to end of reconstruction |
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headed the prosecution against Tweed
Lost the presidential election of 1876 |
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Won election of 1880 against Hancock
shocked politicians into reforming the shameful spoils system
shot in the back by Guiteau at a Washington railroad station |
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VP to Garfield
President after Garfield's death
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Democratic nominee in 1884
2 non consecutive terms |
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23rd president of the US
economic legislation, including the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Antitrust Act
annual federal spending reached 1 million for the first time |
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symbol of gilded age corruption
Tweed and his deputies ran the New York City Democratic party in the 1860s and swindled $200 million from the city through bribery, graft, and votebuying |
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| construction company formed by the Union Pacific Railroad for purpose of receiving government contracts to build the railroad at highly inflated prices and profits. 1872 scandal erupted when journalists discovered that the Credit Mobilier Company had bribed congressmen and even the VP in order to allow the ruse to continue. |
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resolved the 1876 election and officially ended Reconstruction
in exchange for the republican candidate, Hayes, winning the presidency, Hayes agreed to withdraw the last of the federal troops from the former Confederate states.
Effectively completed the southern return o white only democratic dominated electoral politics |
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established the civil service commission
granted federal government jobs on the basis of examinations instead of political patronage
reigning the spoils system |
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1896
upheld the constitutionality of segregation laws, saying that as long as blacks were provided with "separate" but equal facilities, these laws did not violate the 14th amendment
this decision provided legal justification for the Jim Crow system until the 1950s |
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system of racial segregation in the American South from the end of Reconstruction until the mid-twentieth century
sought to prevent racial mixing in public
generally perpetuated by custom, violence, and intimidation |
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wealthy, corrupt railroad tycoon and innovator
one of the first in te industry to make railroads out of steel instead of iron and established a standard gauge for his railroads
robber baron |
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| founded American Federation of Labor |
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| the practice of allowing only unionized employees to work for a particular company |
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list of toublemakers
put names of agitators on this and it would circulate among fellow emploers |
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| employers locking their doors against rebellious workers and then starve them into submission |
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| solemn agreement not to join a labor movement |
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| justified the growing income gap between rich and poor by arguing that God blessed the industrious with riches |
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a may day rally that turned violent when someone threw a bomb into the middle of the meeting, killing several dozen people.
Caused the downfall of Koft |
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development of textiles
constantly trying to get coaxed by the industialists |
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social activist
founded Hull House in 1889 to assist poor Chicago immigrants |
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proposd theories of natural selection
believed that they had become rich because they were literally superior human beings compared to the poorer classes "survival of the fittest" |
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run by middle-class native-born women
provided housing, food, education, childcare, cultural activty, and social connections for new arrival to the US |
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founded by Charles Darwin
the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth |
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