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Politics and the Gilded Age

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The “Bloody Shirt” Elects Grant• The election of 1868: <strong>the</strong> results– Grant won <strong>the</strong> election• 214 to 80 electoral votes• 3 million to 2.7 million popular votes– Grant would not have won without freedmen’svotes• 300,000 margin in popular votes• 500,000 freedmen had voted for Grant• Republicans had to keep ex-slaves voting to stay inpower

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