Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1867-1877 Era      6=  interconnections leading to the Panic of 1873 è= interconnections and directions in trends

 

Date

Pres. Election/Event

Beyond America

Gov’t. Institutions

US Land Expansion

US Eco. Dev.

Issue/Org. Dev.

Political Party Dev.

1865-04

A. Johnson, President

 

In Reconstruction packet

 

 

 

 

1867

 

SCANDAL-Russian bribes

Tenure of Office Act

Alaska purchased[1]

 

Grangers formed[2]

 

1868-02

 

 

House - Vote to impeach

 

 

 

 

1868-03 +

 

 

Senate - Trial -1 vote [3]

 

 

 

 

1868-11

U.S. Grant v. Horatio Seymour

 

 

 

 

 

-white supremacy

-bloody shirt éê

1869

 

Alabama claims – Britain (ended 1872)

Merit – allowed by Grant

“Peace Policy” – Dakota & Indian Territories

 

 

 

1869-02

 

 

15th Amendment –Starts[4]

6

 

 

 

1869-05

 

 

Territory – Wyoming - suffrage

Promontory, Utah -Union Pacific & Central Pacific

 

Equal Rights Association – Split in movement

 

1869-09

 

 

SCANDAL –speculators claims about Grant    è

6

ç  Gold speculators – BUT Treasury Department blocks

 

 

1870-03

 

 

15th Amendment - Done

 

6

Voluntary associations éê

 

1871-04

 

 

State – Illinois Granger laws

 

 

 

 

1871-11

 

European need for US farm goods begins decline   4

City SCANDAL –NY City – convict Boss Tweedè

6

 

FREE PRESS: Tom Nast  New York Times exposed.

 

1872-09

 

 

SCANDAL – VP current and future (stock used to bribe Congressmen, with Garfield being a future president.) Big makes deception easier. è

 

ç  Credit Mobilier – a construction company for the transcontinental railroad with fake high pay when they already had subsidies

FREE PRESS: New York Sun – exposed

 

1872-11

U.S. Grant v. Horace Greeley

 

 

e

6

 

Liberal Republican [5], Greeley as joint candidate 

1873-02

 

 

 

 

“Crime of 73”- gold standard (perceived)

FREE PRESS (indirectly): The Gilded Age, Mark Twain

 

1873-03

 

 

SCANDAL – “Salary Grab Act”       è

 

6

 

 

 

1873-09

 

 

 

4

Panic of 1873

 

 

1874

 

 

 

 

Freedman’s Savings & Loan

NY: Tompkins Square

States – 11 farmer parties

 

 

 

 

 

6

WCTC – Frances Willard [6]

Democratic “Tidal Wave”

1875

 

 

Civil Rights Act - equal rights in public places without color distinction

 

Grant vetoes bill for more paper money

6

 

 

 

 

 

Supreme Court: women[7]

 

 

 

 

1875-05

 

 

SCANDAL – Grant appointee è

 

çWhiskey Ring-Defraud gov’t of taxes on whiskey

FREE PRESS St. Louis Democrat - exposed

 

1875-fall

 

 

 

 

6

PA: Molly Maguires [8]

 

1876-03

 

 

SCANDAL – Grant’s Secretary of War è

 

çBribes for sale of Indian trading posts

 

 

1876-06

 

 

 

Little Big Horn – Custer

 

 

 

1876-11

Rutherford B. Hayes  v. Sam Tilden (popular vote)

 

 

 

6(Hard times
through 1896)

 

 

1877

 

 

Supreme Court: railroad[9]

 

 

North: General Railroad Strike[10]

 

1877-01

 

 

Electoral Commission

 

 

 

 

1877-03

Hayes becomes President.

 

Compromise of 1877

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] Russian bribes to get favorable votes. Sec. of State Seward pushes for purchase of Alaska for $7.2M (so-called “Seward’s Folly). He pushes for other US expansion into the Pacific area.

[2] Grangers are another name for Patrons of Husbandry

[3] 2 month trial – 1 Senator’s vote (out of the 2/3rds required) keeps him in office.

[4] Notice how amendments work in 2 stages: Congress (or convention) proposes an amendment. Then states must ratify. It’s a two stage process.

[5] Look up the word liberal. It is tied to believing in free trade, another term you want to know.

[6] Women’s Christian Temperance Union – What’s temperance? Note: Frances Willard is a woman.

[7] Women’s right to vote rejected in Minor v. Happersett by the Supreme Court.

[8] Notice the industry and the railroad connection. Notice who stops them: the Pinkertons. Who are they?

[9] Munn v. Illinois  -Granger laws upheld with states able to control the railroads

[10] What is a general strike? Where are these strikes?