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
