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xiv CONTENTS<br />

22 THE ORDEAL<br />

OF RECONSTRUCTION<br />

1865–1877 416<br />

The Problems of Peace<br />

CHRONOLOGY 417<br />

416<br />

Freedmen Define Freedom 418<br />

The Freedmen’s Bureau 419<br />

Johnson: The Tailor President 420<br />

Presidential Reconstruction 421<br />

The Baleful Black Codes 422<br />

Congressional Reconstruction 424<br />

Johnson Clashes with Congress 424<br />

Swinging ’Round the Circle with<br />

Johnson 425<br />

Republican Principles and Programs 426<br />

Reconstruction by the Sword 427<br />

No Women Voters 428<br />

The Realities of Radical Reconstruction in<br />

the South 428<br />

The Ku Klux Klan 430<br />

Johnson Walks the Impeachment<br />

Plank 431<br />

A Not-Guilty Verdict for Johnson 432<br />

The Purchase of Alaska 432<br />

The Heritage of Reconstruction<br />

TO LEARN MORE 434<br />

433<br />

23 POLITICAL PARALYSIS IN THE<br />

GILDED AGE 1869–1896 435<br />

CHRONOLOGY 436<br />

The “Bloody Shirt” Elects Grant 437<br />

The Era of Good Stealings 438<br />

A Carnival of Corruption 438<br />

The Liberal Republican Revolt of<br />

1872 439<br />

Depression, Deflation, and Inflation 440<br />

Pallid Politics in the Gilded Age 442<br />

The Hayes-Tilden Standoff, 1876 443<br />

The Compromise of 1877 and the End of<br />

Reconstruction 444<br />

The Birth of Jim Crow in the Post-<br />

Reconstruction South 445<br />

Class Conflicts and Ethnic Clashes 446<br />

Garfield and Arthur 447<br />

The Blaine-Cleveland Mudslingers of<br />

1884 449<br />

“Old Grover” Takes Over 450<br />

Cleveland Battles for a Lower Tariff 451<br />

The Billion-Dollar Congress 452<br />

The Drumbeat of Discontent 453<br />

Cleveland and Depression 455<br />

Cleveland Breeds a Backlash<br />

TO LEARN MORE 457<br />

456<br />

24 INDUSTRY COMES OF AGE<br />

1865–19<strong>00</strong> 458<br />

CHRONOLOGY 459<br />

The Iron Colt Becomes an Iron<br />

Horse 459<br />

Spanning the Continent with Rails<br />

Binding the Country with Railroad<br />

460<br />

Ties 461<br />

Railroad Consolidation and<br />

Mechanization 462<br />

Revolution by Railways 463<br />

Wrongdoing in Railroading 464<br />

Government Bridles the Iron Horse 465<br />

Miracles of Mechanization 466<br />

The Trust Titan Emerges 467<br />

The Supremacy of Steel 468<br />

Carnegie and Other Sultans of Steel 469<br />

Rockefeller Grows an American Beauty<br />

Rose 470<br />

Copyright 2<strong>00</strong>9 Cengage Learning, Inc. All Rights Reserved. May not be co<strong>pi</strong>ed, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part.

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