The Presidency of U.S. Grant ( )

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Topic: Evaluating the impact of Gilded Age corruption on national politics

The Presidency of U.S. Grant (1869-1877) “Bloody Shirt” campaign Role of African voters Grant enforces military Reconstruction Grant a poor President (naïve) Numerous Grant scandals: Fisk and Gould gold scandal Whiskey Ring Credit Mobiler (congress) 1872 election Liberal Republicans and Horace Greeley Grant wins 2nd term Panic of 1873 Gold vs. Greenbacks and sliver

Another view of Grant

The End of Reconstruction: Compromise or Corruption? Election of 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes gains Rep. nomination (“The Great Unknown”) Dems nominate Samuel Tilden Voting “irregularities” leads to no winner! Compromise of 1877 Hayes chosen as President Hayes must officially end Reconstruction Posse Comitatus Act (Congress) Northerners see Hayes as a traitor (“Ruther-fraud”)  weak President South “let loose” Redeemers, Jim Crow laws Plessey v. Ferguson