The Gilded Age 1869-1896 - created from Mind Map

Political Democrats Republicans Presidential Elections Post-Reconstruction South "Stalwarts" "Half-Breeds" 1868 1872 1876 1880 1884 U.S. Grant Horatio Seymour U.S. Grant Horace Greeley Civil Rights Act of 1875 Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel J. Tilden Compromise of 1877 End of Reconstruction Electoral Count Act 1877 James A. Garfield Winfield Scott Hancock Chester A. Arthur Pendleton Act 1883 James G. Blaine Grover Cleveland sharecropping Jim Crow Laws Plessy v Ferguson

Economic Jay Gould Tweed Ring Credit Mobilier Whiskey Ring Panic of 1873 1875 Resumption Act deflationary

LaborRailroad Strike of 1877

Women and Family

Immigration Irish vs. Chinese Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 United States v Wong Kim Ark

Union Pacific Railroad forms Credit Mobilier to get gov't contracts at inflated rates. Gave stock to congressmen and VP to keep it going

Republican

Republican

Liberal Republican Party    -purify government and end military Reconstruction

government withdraw more greenbacks and redeem paper currency in gold at face value starting 1879. Passed by Republican Congress

-worsened impact of depression -restored gov't's credit rating -brought greenbacks up to face value -Democratic House in 1874

-less strict morals -gov't shouldn't impose moral standard -South, industrial North, immigrants, political machines

-strict moral codes -gov't regulates economic and moral affairs -Midwest, rural Northeast, freedmen -1870s and 1880s deadlocked by division

patronage

civil-service reforms

Republican

Democrat

-Republican speaker counts disputed votes (Hayes wins) -Hayes withdraws all federal troops from South

Commission set up to count votes

Equal accommodations in public places and juries. Civil Rights Cases 1883--much declared unconstitutional:      government can't discriminate,  but individuals can

record high lynchings in 1890s

Freed blacks forced into perpetual debt, often to former masters, through sharecropping and tenant farming

legal codes of segregation -literacy tests -voter registration for blacks -poll tax

"separate but equal"

California: Chinese=cheap labor.  Willing to take menial jobs

federal troops called in -exposed weakness of labor movement -gov't helps big business

Prohibited immigration from China until 1943

1898 citizenship to all people born on US soil guaranteed by 14th Amendment -protected many immigrant groups

Republican assassinated 1881 by Charles J. Guiteau

stopped patronage started politicians' dependence on big business

The Gilded Age 1869-1896

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