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| | == Review == | | == Review == |
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| − | Seward Purchase of Alaska "1867: Sec'y of State under Lincoln & Johnson, bought Alaska (critics described this as ""Seward's Folly"")"
| + | When the North won the Civil War in 1865, the Republican Party claimed victory and blamed the Democratic Party for the war itself. From then until 1912, only one Democratic candidate for president was able to win a presidential election: Grover Cleveland, who won in 1884, then lost in 1888, and then won again in 1892. And he was a ''[[conservative]]'' Democrat from the traditionally Republican northern state of New York. |
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| | + | Republican rule of the nation meant that free enterprise and big business were favored. There was also tremendous prosperity and the nation grew into a world power in the second half of the 1800s. |
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| | + | The country grew enormous in size when the Secretary of State under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, Seward, agreed for the United States to purchase Alaska in 1867. Critics ridiculed this purchase as "Seward's Folly," describing the land as a mere "icebox". At the time, no one knew there was oil and gold there, or that Sarah Palin would be its future governor! |
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| | Exodusters "After Reconstruction, African Americans moved from South to Midwest, especially Kansas" | | Exodusters "After Reconstruction, African Americans moved from South to Midwest, especially Kansas" |
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| | “Tammany Hall” was the name used to describe the Democratic Party organization in New York County, which operated like a machine in how it elected people, gave out jobs, and even stole money from the City. Eventually, it was the New York Times and American’s most famous cartoonist, Thomas Nast, who wrote public scorn to Boss Tweed and his imprisonment. Nast cheered Tweed’s humiliation. | | “Tammany Hall” was the name used to describe the Democratic Party organization in New York County, which operated like a machine in how it elected people, gave out jobs, and even stole money from the City. Eventually, it was the New York Times and American’s most famous cartoonist, Thomas Nast, who wrote public scorn to Boss Tweed and his imprisonment. Nast cheered Tweed’s humiliation. |
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| − | Slavery was no longer an issue from the end of Reconstruction through 1900. With the exception of one politician (Democrat Grover Cleveland, who looked like a Republican because he was from New York, favored the gold standard and opposed unions by sending in troops to put down the Pullman Strike in Chicago in 1894), Republicans controlled the White House. During the Gilded Age, there were business scandals and there were political scandals. But there was also tremendous prosperity.
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| | == Yankee Ingenuity == | | == Yankee Ingenuity == |