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"Democrats threatened to boycott Hayes’s inauguration. Rival governments arose claiming to recognize Tilden as the rightfully elected president. Republicans, fearing another sectional crisis, reached out to Democrats. In what became known as the Compromise of 1877, Democrats conceded the presidency to Hayes on the condition that all remaining troops would be removed from the South and the South would receive special economic favors." (Reconstruction, 2019) -
"Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb from his famous home laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.(THE MYTH OF THE SOLE INVENTOR, 2012) -
"ted yet again, Van Buren retired for good. He died in July 1862.
After two scandal-ridden terms, Ulysses Grant should have retired from politics in 1877. But he missed the glory and acclaim of the presidency, and in 1880 he allowed his name to go before the Republican Convention. He led on the first thirty-five tallies but
ultimately lost the nomination to James Garfield." (The Making of the Ex-Presidents, 1797-1993: Six Recurrent Models, 1999) -
"On 2 July 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot in the back by Charles Guiteau at a Washington, D.C., train station." (Media in America, 1881: Garfield, Guiteau, Bell, Whitman, 2005) -
"Americans touted the Dawes Act as an uplifting humanitarian reform, but it upended Native lifestyles and left Native nations without sovereignty over their lands. The act claimed that to protect Native property rights, it was necessary to extend “the protection of the laws of the United States . .over the Indians.” Tribal governments and legal principles could be superseded, or dissolved and replaced, by U.S. laws." (The West, 2019) -
"To deliver on his promises of stability and prosperity, Harding signed legislation to restore a high protective tariff and dismantled the last wartime controls over industry."(The New Era, 2019) -
"The Pullman Strike the rapid expansion of industrialism following the Civil War was accompanied by increasingly severe labor disturbances. Despite the enormous gains enjoyed by entrepreneurs the plight of labor during this era was not materially improved."(Paternalism and the Pullman Strike, 1939) -
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"President William McKinley led the United States into war against Spain in 1898, it was an extraordinary experience for the presidency as well as for the nation." (The President Makes News: William McKinley and the First Presidential Press Corps, 1897-1901, 1994) -
"The Treaty of Paris, which ended the war, demanded that British troops leave formerly enslaved people behind, but the British military commanders upheld earlier promises and evacuated thousands of freedmen, transporting them to Canada, the Caribbean, or Great Britain." (The American Revolution, 2019)