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Fisk and Gould created a scam and convinced Grant's brother to limit the circulation to go up, making a bigger demand for it, then selling their stocks when they are more expensive.
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Politic machine who used Irish to his advantage to get votes, leader of Tammany Hall
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People formed a company and hired themselves at extremely high pay to not even finish the Transcontinental Railroad
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Banks were giving unsecured loans and not requiring any callateral which made corruption since loans were not being paid back
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Federal US employees steal from the treasury
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Tilden and Hayed run for president but alot of confusion takes place throughout the House of Reps
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This marked the period when the government did not try to change the south
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Hayes can be president but end of military reconstruction is introduced to make it fair
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Garfield is killed after being elected president
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Kearney went on a crusade to wipeout Chinese from California, forbade any Chinese from immigrating
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Limits spoils system, cabinet is the only thing appointed
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Cleveland wins presidency against Blaine
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harrison wins presidency when Cleveland goes for second term
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Becomes speaker of the House of Reps
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This did not authorize the free and unlimited coinage of silver, but raised the required amount government had to buy every month
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Billion- Dollar Congress passed this which boosted rates higher than ever before
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300 armed Pinkerton detectives went down the Mon river to the Carnegie Steel plant and had to surrender
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The populists were frusterated farmers
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Over speculation, labor disorders, and ongoing agricultural depression were the leading causes. Lasted about 4 years
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A pledge from the Democrats to lower tariffs but was to long to make a different in the McKinley Tariff rates
