Chapter 23 Notes Sheet
Chapter 23 Notes Sheet
Chapter 23 Notes Sheet
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ELECTION OF 1868
Democratic Groups Political Platform
Wealthy Eastern 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?
ELECTION OF 1872
Candidate Issues
Horace Greeley
Ulysses S. Grant
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Why did Mark Twain dub the post-Civil War era the Gilded Age? (Consult outside sources!)
Republicans
Half-Breeds:
What were the qualifications of the two candidates in the election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes and
Samuel J. Tilden?
In what way did the Compromise of 1877 sacrifice the civil rights of southern blacks?
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How did sharecropping and tenant farming impact the economic suppression of blacks?
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?
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?