Samuel J. Tilden

What would you do if you didn't have a say in who runs America and how it is ran. What if you were promised freedom, and told that you had a government ran by the people but you didn’t get any input in the decisions? The direct popular vote doesn’t give the smaller parties a chance, but the electoral college does. Some people believe that the electoral college should be abolished; however, it gives people in rural communities a stronger voice, it allows the President a mandate to meet people’s needs

Hook:...................................................................................................................................... After the Civil War ended there were new things happening outside of war. The first black senator, Hiram Revels is elected in 1870. Then first Easter egg hunt on the White House lawn was held in the year of 1877. The North killed reconstruction because there was still racism, President Grant forgot about Reconstruction, and the North left the South on their

Confederacy, and ended with the Compromise of 1877. This was an informal agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1866. This compromise formally concluded the Reconstruction by electing Republican Rutherford B. Hayes over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden and having federal troops removed from the South.

As a country, America has gone through many political changes. Leaders have come and gone, all of them having different objectives and plans for the future. One period of time in which leaders sought change was 1865 which was the time period known as Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a time period of many different leaders, different goals and different accomplishments. Many debate whether Reconstruction was a success or failure. Success is an event which accomplishes its intended purpose, which

Once the Americans solved the issue of independence from Britain, they were immediately confronted with another critical issue, what to do with slavery. On one hand, the South zealously supported slavery and the expansion of it. The North, on the other hand, was very much against the survival and expansion of slavery. The conflicting ideology created a problem in the new nation, through which compromises did little to remedy. This gave rise to the development of sectionalism in the states. Throughout

After the Civil War, the South was strongly altered through a series of passed laws and acts in the a period known as the Reconstruction Era. This plan of reconstruction which was to bring reformation to the lives of Southern African Americans lasted from 1865-1877. This plan was brought by President Lincoln . Unfortunately he was shot and killed by a leader of a Confederate sympathizer, John Booth. As a result, President Jackson took office and was left in charge. The reconstruction was a great

to be a great year with the Declaration of Independence having its 100th anniversary also with the election of 1876 coming. It came although as a year of corruption for the nation. The election of 1876 saw Rutherford B. Hayes running against Samuel J. Tilden for president. The rumor of a new civil was hanging around the nation because of this election. The compromise of 1877 stopped this from happening. It gave the Republican Party Rutherford Hayes presidency. It

African-American citizenship and their civil rights. Schools and churches were quickly built for them and the former slaves were even gaining positions in the government. It all seemed great until the election of 1876 when Ruther B. Hayes a republican and Samuel J. Tilden a democrat ran for the presidency. The votes were so close that the winner was unclear, so Hayes struck a deal for the presidency in return he would remove the last soldiers from the south. It almost guaranteed that all white governments would

Reconstruction: By: Siryet Girma 1,514 words 7 pages Historical Paper Reconstruction: the failure Reconstruction was a failure because African American were still not equal to White Americans. The Emancipation Proclamation was proclaimed in January 1, 1863. It freed more than 3 million slaves in the Confederate states by January 1, 1863, blacks enlisted in the Union Army in large numbers, reaching some 180,000 by war’s

Chapter 23: The "Bloody Shirt" Elects Grant Post-Civil War Reconstruction: Andrew Johnson was impeached and the Democrats/Republicans both nominated new candidates (Democrats - Horatio Seymour and Republicans - Ulysses S. Grant) Election of 1868: Grant was nominated by Republicans despite his lack of political experience (a war general) Due to his popularity in the North he had around 300,000 more popular votes than his opponent (turning point was the 500,000 votes of Blacks given to Grant: Republicans