Hopefully finishing the powerpoint presentations. then tomorrow we'll either finish finsihing, or move on to our assigned family history blogs. then after that we'll go look over over chapter 8 assigned blogs from forever ago. then we'll have that blog discussion. so, back to 7-3 now.
graft, scandal, and tariff stuff.
political machines also used fraud to win elections.
election of 1876- rutherford b hayes vs samuel j tilden. they tied, so they make the electoral commission, which consisted of 7 democrats (for tilden) and 7 republicans (for hayes) and the supreme court justice (who was a republican). so tilden won. but the democrats didnt argue, just said they'd accept hayes if they ended reconstruction.
Boss Tweed- head of tammany hall. between 1865 and 1871, made 75,200 million dollars on kickbacks and business bribes. 120 counts of fraud and extortion. thomas nast's cartoon got him arrasted a third time when he fled to london. Santa claus.
missed a slide or two here. not sure what i was doing. but he talked about tariffs and stuff.
grover cleveland was elected in 1892 for the second time. only pres to be elected twice nonconsecutively. wanted to lower tariffs, federal income tax. Wilson-Gorman tariff act.
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Patronage. known as the spoils system. "to the victor belongs the spoils" large range of jobs given.
reform. reasonable people pushed for termination of patronage. they preferred the merrit system. (because if you helped the pres become pres, then you would get a good job....people wanted important jobs to go to people with qualifications, not because they were buddies of the big man) spoils system often ersulted in stolen money...
rutherford b hayes supported the reform (to prove this he hired people from neutral parties instead of those who helped him get into office). he investigated the stolen money, fired people, etc. nominated garfeild for pres and chester a arthur to be vice pres, who was for patronage. charles guiteau shot garfield because he denied him a job, saying "i am stalwart, now arthur is president." after this, when arthur was pres, he switched to reform.
Pendleton civil service. result of arthur's urging legislators. approved on january 16 1883. officially established a merit-based system. also made it illegal to fire or demote employees for political or religious reasons. helped eliminate corruption.
yay, finally done. oops, mr bruns is talking about assassinations. guess we arent done. pres mickinly was assassinated. killed by leon...chalgaush? chozgoff? no idea. anyways, it wasnt the bullet that killed him, it was the medical treatment afterwards, when they tried to get the bullet out.
slatwart- status quo republican.
half breed- refrom republican
and then there were democrats....
only one pres ever impeached- nixon, but that wasnt real impeachment, since he resigned before he was impeached. another pres. kicked out by the house, bill clinton. becasue or a scandal....he lied under oath. andrew johnson almost impeached, but not because one person voted against the impeachment out of guilt. so in truth, no pres has ever actually been impeached but a few came very close.
out of time now.
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