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Black Market Scandal
Fisk and Gould created a scam and convinced Grant's brother to limit the circulation to go up, making a bigger demand for it, then selling their stocks when they are more expensive. -
Boss Tweed
Politic machine who used Irish to his advantage to get votes, leader of Tammany Hall -
Credit Mobilier
People formed a company and hired themselves at extremely high pay to not even finish the Transcontinental Railroad -
Financial Panic
Banks were giving unsecured loans and not requiring any callateral which made corruption since loans were not being paid back -
Whiskey Scandal
Federal US employees steal from the treasury -
Election of 1876
Tilden and Hayed run for president but alot of confusion takes place throughout the House of Reps -
End of Reconstruction
This marked the period when the government did not try to change the south -
Compromise of 1877
Hayes can be president but end of military reconstruction is introduced to make it fair -
Presidency and assassination
Garfield is killed after being elected president -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Kearney went on a crusade to wipeout Chinese from California, forbade any Chinese from immigrating -
Pendleton Act
Limits spoils system, cabinet is the only thing appointed -
Cleveland
Cleveland wins presidency against Blaine -
Harrison
harrison wins presidency when Cleveland goes for second term -
Thomas B. Reed
Becomes speaker of the House of Reps -
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
This did not authorize the free and unlimited coinage of silver, but raised the required amount government had to buy every month -
McKinley Tariff Act
Billion- Dollar Congress passed this which boosted rates higher than ever before -
Homestead Strike
300 armed Pinkerton detectives went down the Mon river to the Carnegie Steel plant and had to surrender -
New party
The populists were frusterated farmers -
Depression of 1893
Over speculation, labor disorders, and ongoing agricultural depression were the leading causes. Lasted about 4 years -
Wilson-Gorman Tariff
A pledge from the Democrats to lower tariffs but was to long to make a different in the McKinley Tariff rates
