HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 9 Outline of Last Lecture I Supply and Demand A Henry Ford B Capitalism C Socialism D Anarchism II Immigration A Dennis Kearney B Jacob Riis C Jane Addams III Labor A Molly McGuires B Haymarket Square Riot C Homestead Strike Outline of Current Lecture I Rutherford B Hayes A End of Reconstruction II James Garfield A Political Reform Begins B Assassination III Chester Arthur A Pendleton Civil Service Act B Beginning of Modern Navy IV Election of 1884 A James B Blaine B Mugwups C Grover Cleveland Current Lecture l A Rutherford B Hayes was a Republican running for President on the political reform of the spoils system His opponent was Tilden who said he would concede the election and These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute let Hayes win if he ended reconstruction in the South Hayes agreed to Tilden s offer and became President in 1877 until 1881 ll A James Garfield was a Republican who won the Presidency in 1881 He starts trying to reform the corrupted political system B Before he could really start though a man shot him because Garfield did not give him a political job like he said he would The bullet was stuck somewhere inside Garfield so they asked if anyone had the technology to find it and remove it Alexander Graham Bell was working on something like and x ray machine He took it to the White House but only squiggly lines appeared Garfield dies and after this they discover it wasn t showing the correct picture because he was on hit spring mat instead of on the floor lll A Chester Arthur a Republican who was the Vice President during Garfield s term was now the President from 1881 to 1885 He created the Pendleton Civil Service Act which meant that people running for a political job had to take a test and whoever got the highest score got the job If a returning veteran applied for a political job they d get five extra points on their test This eliminated hiring friends to get votes B At this time America was importing an item from Peru bat poop They needed this bat poop because of the nitrates in it which could be used for fertilizer and gun powder Britain was in a naval war with Peru and they were almost caught up in it However Britain had steam powered ships while theirs still used the wind So Congress decides they need a better navy so they make 2 battle ships lV A In the election of 1884 Republicans nominate James G Blaine former Speaker of the House However he was not the reform type and man Republicans were upset about this so they split away from the Republican Party B These Republicans who had split formed their own group the Mugwups not a political party They told the Democrats that they would vote with them if they nominated a reform minded candidate The Democrats knew they needed the Mugwups votes to win so they agreed and found Grover Cleveland C Grover Cleveland was the mayor of Buffalo who had managed to reform them So when running the Republicans tried to get dirt on Cleveland and announced he had an illegitimate daughter Cleveland admits to this accusation so this goes away Cleveland supporters then dig up letters that Blaine had written saying that he liked the company of men more than women With this accusation Cleveland won and was the only Democratic President in the mid 1880 s to the early 1900 s
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