Samuel J. Tilden

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, yet Donald Trump is president because he won the Electoral College. The Electoral College is the system that the United States of America uses to elect the president and vice president. A couple of groups have a problem with how the Electoral College currently operates with people like Barbara Boxer, a California Senator, stating that “94% of campaigning by the presidential candidates in 2016 took place in 12 states. That was it. Two-thirds of these general election

The Electoral College is a system that the founding fathers established to allow people to vote indirectly for the president. The public does not directly vote for the president and his or her running mate, but intern votes for a representative that has pledged to vote for a certain candidate. Once the electoral votes have been cast, the majority winner wins the presidency. Each state gets a certain number of electoral votes, there is a total of 538 electoral votes, and a majority of 270 votes

Electoral College The Electoral College was a compromise in order to pick a president between the Congress’s vote and the citizens’ vote. The selection of Electors would meet and vote for the president and vice president, they would also count the electoral votes by Congress. There are 538 electors, but a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect a vice president or a vice president. The amount of electors equals the amount of members of the House of Representative that states have plus

As you're eating dinner at the diner, you see white men beating an african american. And you wonder to yourself when will this end? And who will stop it? Some good facts to know is that in the year of 1876, it was the 100th year of the Declaration of Independence(Roden,505). Also that the Civil War lasted 4 years(Dallek, 535). The question asked is, South or North. Who destroyed Reconstruction? I think the South destroyed Reconstruction because of the KKK wanted power, the KKK was harming the african

The attempts to reconstruct the South officially ended in 1877 after the Civil War. During this time it was also the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The south was responsible the end of reconstruction for the following reasons of violence, unwillingness to change, and fighting people who wanted to end slavery. In 1876, a presidential election was held for the 19th president of America. This took place about 10 years after the end of the Civil War. After this war ended, a

Representatives to chose the winner…choosing John Quincy Adams who came in second behind Jackson in both votes. The second time it happen was in 1876, when Samuel J. Tilden won fifty-one percent of the popular vote and Rutherford B. Hayes only won forty-eight percent, the electoral college vote was 184-185, and a special electoral commission picked Hayes over Tilden. The third time was in 1888, when Benjamin Harrison won the election over Grover Cleveland with 233 electoral votes even though he had the lower

The Dictionary of American History, defines White Supremacy as “the belief that members of the Caucasian or white race are superior in all ways to other groups or races in the world” The ideology supports the position that, intellectually whites are superior and by virtue of that superiority must form the Government and lead other races, who were thought of as less than humans and existed only to serve the whites. White Supremacy is the foundation upon which the United States was built. It is manifested

The method that the United States uses to elect its President and Vice President is known as the Electoral College. Contrary to popular belief, the citizens of the United States do not vote directly for the President. Rather, they vote for designated “electors” who have (usually) pledged to vote for a specific candidate. There are 538 electors because this is the number of seats in the U.S Senate plus the seats in the U.S House of Representatives. Each state receives a number of votes equal to the

DBQ With the era of American Reconstruction in America during the mid to late 1800’s came a sense of opportunity and hope for its people. America was on the move as nation, railroads being built faster than ever and the freedmen looking to find their niche in society. Although in the beginning the government provided support for these new citizens, efforts toward reconstruction faded as the years passed. Those efforts faded to a point where they were all but nonexistent, and with the unwritten Compromise

As you're eating dinner at the diner, you see white men beating an African American. And you wonder to yourself when will this end? And who will stop it? Some good facts to know is that in the year of 1876, it was the 100th year of the Declaration of Independence(Roden,505). Also that the Civil War lasted 4 years(Dallek, 535). The question asked is, South or North. Who destroyed Reconstruction? I think the South destroyed Reconstruction because of the KKK wanted power, the KKK was harming the African