GILDED AGE POLITICSBell Work:1.What is the spoils system- when did it form?2.What is a stalwart (Conklin)?3.What is a half breed?4.Who was James A Garfield… why did his association with the half-breeds lead to his assassination?

GILDED AGE POLITICS BELL WORK Bell Work: 1.What is the spoils system- when did it

form? 2.What is a stalwart (Conklin)? 3.What is a half breed (Blaine)? How did James Garfield’s association of

being a half-breed lead to his assassination?

Listen to the Following Details Regarding the Death of Garfield

“Era of Good Stealings” Ulysses S. Grant- “Grant had no right to exist.

He should have been extinct for ages… That, two thousand years after Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, a man like Grant should be called- and should actually and truly be- the highest product of the most advanced evolution, from President Washington to President Grant, was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin… Grant should have lived in a cave and worn skins.” Henry Adams

U.S. Grant

U.S. Grant (R) & Scandals

Political Failure? Or Rising Star? KKK crackdown.

Grant Cabinet- rip off artists Black Friday- Gold Corner (Jay Gould) Credit Mobilier (Oakes Ames)

Tammany Hall William M. Tweed (political machines) Political Machines… Graft Thomas Nast (political cartoons) Nasty Grant and Santa Claus

Boss Tweed

Rutherford B. Hayes (R) Elected over Samuel Tilden… brought

down Boss Tweed 2nd Corrupt Bargain- end of

Reconstruction creation of the Jim Crow Laws

(segregation) Plessy v. Ferguson Chinese Exclusion Act (political suicide).

Hayes

James Garfield (R) Spoils System Roscoe Conkling v. James G. Blaine Stalwarts (Conkling), Half-Breeds (James

G. Blaine), Independents Assassination- (Charles Guiteau) Chester A. Arthur- Pendleton Act Civil Service Exam

Grover Cleveland (D) Democrat… Mugwumps vs. Blaine Election of 1884- “Burn this letter” v, Ma

Ma where’s my Pa? Off to the White House Ha, Ha, Ha!”

RRR, Romanism, Rum, Ruin “Though the people support the

government, the government should not support the people”

Tariff issues (lower the tariff- anti business)

Ma Ma Ma… Tatooed Man

Benjamin Harrison (R) Cleveland v. Harrison (Young

Tippecanoe) Waiving of the bloody shirt (now pink) Twisting of the lions tail- vote for

Cleveland is a vote for England Loss of the surplus (tariffs and veteran

pensions) McKinley Tariff

Billion Dollar Congress

Cleveland (again) 2nd term Panic of 1893 Silver Purchase Act (Repeals) Pullman Strike (original quote- negative

president)

William McKinley (R) Bryan v. McKinley (twice) Gold Standard and more tariffs Ends depression Spanish American War Killed by Leon Czolgosz (anarchist at the

World Fair) Theodore Roosevelt (one shot away)

McKinley

Kane