tyler

Thomas Nast

political cartoonist who drew against Tammany's corruption

Credit Mobilier

railroad construction company that paid itself huge sums of money for small railroad construction -busted by ny newspaper -2 members of congress formally censured -VP had accepted 20 shares of stock from them

Ulysses s. grant

Grant didn't acknoweledge the railroad promoters chaeting the customers

Tweed Ring

-"tammany hall" of NYC -headed by Boss Tweed -used bribery, graft, and fake elections -cheated city out of $200 million -caught and jailed; died in jail

Jim Fisk and Jay Gould (Black Friday)

-2 millionaires -plan to corner gold market by getting grant to stop letting treasury sell gold

Hayes v. Tilden

-Hayes was choosen by the Republicans -TIlden was choosen by the democrats -It was ended in a tie because of the 4 undecided states

Stalwarts and Halfbreeds

-Stalwarts led by Roscoe Conkling - Halfbreeds led by James G. Blaine

horace greeley

-liberal republican party -called an atheist, communist, vegetarian, and signer of davis's bail bond

Whiskey Ring

-robbed treasury of millions of dollars -grant's private secretary was one of criminals (grant retracted "let no guilty man escape")

Compromise of 1877

-solved the election of 1876 and Hayes would win -He wopuld have to remove the troops from the south