U.S. Grant  popular Civil War hero.  Republican President after Andrew Johnson

    1.  Republican candidate for President
    2.  Honest and upright but inexperienced
    3.  Gold Scandal  /  Black Friday

Watch President Grant 8 min video:

How was the election
of 1876 disputed?  Map

Samuel Tilden            -       Democrat
Rutherford B. Hayes -       Republican
 

Rutherford B. Hayes

In four states the electoral votes were in
dispute Oregon, Florida, Louisiana, and
South Carolina

Hayes needed those states to win the election.

Election Commission

The historical significance is that the American people, and Samuel Tilden, took the outcome of the election in stride.

Compromise of 1877  
        Electoral votes would go to Hayes if???

    1.  Hayes removed troops from the south

    2.  Appoint a southerner to his cabinet

    3.  Economically help the struggling south

Watch President Rutherford Hayes President 9 min video

    President Hayes remembered for?

    1.  Reconstruction Ended

    2.  Attempts at civil service reform

        Before the Civil War government officials 
                were hired by the spoils system

        Reforms hiring on the basis of merit/
            qualifications for  your job

        Now government employees take a civil service test

    3.  Charles Schurz, cabinet member who 
            encouraged civil service reform

4.  Lemonade Lucy  no alcoholic beverages!!

    Who were the Stalwarts and Half-Breeds? p 414

Election of 1880        Territory growth 1880
    
    1.  James Garfield elected President, 
                            Chester A. Arthur V.P.

Watch President Garfield 6 min video:

    Charles J. Guiteau  disgruntled office seeker
            assassinated Garfield
 

In 1881, Alexander Graham Bell constructed a crude metal detector in an attempt to find an assassin's bullet in President James Garfield. Gerhard Fischar patented a portable version in 1931.

    Pendleton Act  this law became the basis for
                                            the modern civil service reform

Lesson Objectives

Students will learn

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. list

2. explain the difference between

3. describe the

4. chart on a map the

5. define the terms

6. Explain the significance of

Knowledge: Recall of data.

Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.

Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace.

Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. 

Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.