Politics in the Gilded Age

By cjamison

  • Rutherford B. Hayes elected president

    -civil reform made gradual progress under his leadership
    -he named independents to his cabinet
    -he also set up a commision to investigate the nation's customhouses
    -Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Print.

  • James A. Garfield elected president

    -Garfield angered the Stalwarts by giving reformers most of his patronage jobs
    -July 2, 1881, he was shot twice by a man whom he turned down for a job
    -September 19, 1881, he died due to his bullet wounds
    -Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Print.

  • Chester A. Arthur assumes the presidency

    -he became a reformer upon his presidency
    -his first message to Congress urged legislators to a pass a civil service law
    -Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Print.

  • Pendleton Civil Service Act passed

    -this act authorized a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to federal jobs through a merit system based on the candidates' performances on an examination
    -Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Print.

  • Grover Cleveland elected President

    -he tried to lower tariff rates but Congress refused to support him
    -Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Print.

  • Benjamin Harrison elected president

    -he wanted tariff rates even higher
    -he signed the Mckinley Tariff Act which raised tariffs on manufactured goods to their highest level yet
    -Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Print.

  • Grover Cleveland was reelected for president

    -during his second presidency, he supported a bill to lower the the tariffs, but he didnt sign it because it would have brought federal income tax
    -Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Print.

  • William Mckinley elected president

    -he raised tariffs once again
    -Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Print.