politics in gilded age
- Created by: shannonboulton
- Created on: 07-05-19 17:30
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- Gilded age politics
- 19th political view was to administer gov but not be a leader
- limited role of president, never see powerful in office except Lincoln
- congress, very little harsh debate
- power distributed evenly, between 1872/1896 no president wins majority of popular vote
- coalition politics
- limited role of president, never see powerful in office except Lincoln
- major poltiical issues are relatively technical issues about finance/tarrifs/ taxes on foriegn goods into US or currency = not trasnformative, don't regard how nation should be run
- republicans= anglo-protestant carried AA support, strong tradition as part of morality issues such as religion and drinking of alcohol
- democrats= wider coalition, southern whites, reactinoary/ racist, nothern immigrants, jews and cahtolics also joining party
- presidents= US Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland again
- US Grant= corrupt and failing
- Rutherford Hayes= epitomises moral republican stand and repair damaage done by corruption of grant
- Cleveland= wants to lower tarrifs and make overseas industrial goods cheaper. 22nd/24th president.
- 19th political view was to administer gov but not be a leader
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