Today we continued with more blog discussions.
- Grover Cleveland was elected president in 1884 and was the first democrat in 24 years
- He tried to lower tarffis.
- When he ran for re-election, he was beat out by Harrison in electoral votes.
- In 1892 he became the 24th president and was the first to serve two con-consecutive terms
- He had to deal with the panic of 1857 which was a national depression
- James A. Garfield was president in 1857
- Served 6 months before getting assassinated by Charles Gatoo because he wouldn't give him an office opinion through the spoils system
- President Hayes fought in the Civil War
- He lost the popular vote but won the electoral votes by 1
- He ended reconstruction after the Civil War
- President Lincoln and Taft were mainly republican
- Stalwart Repulicans were only interested in keeping the status quo in the U.S.
- Half-Breed Republicans were reformers who tried to help out the common person
- Most Democrats were reformers
- The Guilded Age occured in the late 1800s.
- Witnessed the birth of modern America
- Means to be covered in gold
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