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The Grant Administration ( )

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.

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The Grant Administration ( )

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  1. The Grant Administration ( )

  2. The 1868 Republican Ticket

  3. The 1868 Democratic Ticket

  4. Waving the Bloody Shirt! Republican “Southern Strategy”

  5. 1868 Presidential Election

  6. Grant?

  7. Grant Administration Scandals • Grant presided over an era of unprecedented growth and corruption • Credit Mobilier Scandal • Whiskey Ring • "Let no guilty man escape."

  8. The Tweed Ring in NYC William Marcy Tweed (notorious head of Tammany Hall’s political machine) [Thomas Nast crusading cartoonist/reporter]

  9. Who Stole the People’s Money?

  10. 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!

  11. 1872 Presidential Election

  12. Popular Vote for President: 1872

  13. The Panic of 1873 • It raises “the moneyquestion” • debtors seek inflationarymonetary policy bycontinuing circulation of greenbacks • creditors, intellectuals support hard money • 1875  Specie Redemption Act Begins to divert attention from Reconstruction • 1876  Greenback Party formed & makes gains in congressional races  The “Crime of ’73’!

  14. Legal Challenges • The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) • Bradwell v. IL (1873) • U. S. v. Cruikshank (1876) • U. S. v. Reese (1876)

  15. And They Say He Wants a Third Term

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