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The Grant Administration ( ). The 1868 Republican Ticket. The 1868 Democratic Ticket. Waving the Bloody Shirt!. Republican “Southern Strategy”. 1868 Presidential Election. Grant?. Grant Administration Scandals. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The 1868 Republican Ticket
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The 1868 Democratic Ticket
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Waving the Bloody Shirt!
Republican “Southern Strategy”
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1868 Presidential Election
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Grant Administration Scandals Grant presided over an era of
unprecedented growth and corruption
• Credit Mobilier Scandal
• Whiskey Ring•"Let no guilty man escape."
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The Tweed Ring in NYC
William Marcy Tweed (notorious head of Tammany Hall’s political machine)
[Thomas Nast crusading cartoonist/reporter]
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Who Stole the People’s Money?
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The Election of 1872 Rumors of corruption during
Grant’s first term discredit Republicans
Horace Greeley runs as a Democrat/Liberal Republican candidate
Greeley attacked as a fool and a crank
Greeley died on November 29, 1872!
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1872 Presidential Election
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Popular Vote for President: 1872
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The Panic of 1873 It raises “the money
question”• debtors seek
inflationarymonetary policy bycontinuing circulation of greenbacks
• creditors, intellectuals support hard money
1875 Specie Redemption Act
1876 Greenback Party formed & makes gains in congressional races The “Crime of ’73’!
Begins to divert attention from Reconstruction
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Legal Challenges The Slaughterhouse Cases
(1873)
Bradwell v. IL (1873)
U. S. v. Cruikshank (1876)
U. S. v. Reese (1876)
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And They Say He Wants a Third Term