Reading Analysis Assignment over Presidential Politics during the Gilded Age 1. What was President Rutherford Hayes' most significant act after winning the disputed 1876 election? 2. What did President Hayes do with the following issues? - Honest government - Issue of Temperance - Chinese immigration laws 3. What did the Republicans do during the 1880 election that served as a compromise between the president and vice-presidential nominees? 4. How had the Democrat nominee in 1880 (Winfield Hancock) been famous? 5. After Garfield won in a very close election, what happened in the first weeks in the White House? 6. How did President Garfield's choice of Halfbreed Republicans for most offices impact Senator Conklin and the Stalwart Republicans? 7. Describe the person who shot President Garfield as he was preparing to board a train for vacation. 8. List three things that Chester Arthur did while he was president. ________________________________ ______________________________ _______________________________ 9. Why did the Republican Party deny Chester Arthur a chance to be re-nominated as president in 1884? 10. List three things you learned about Congressmen John Sherman… ________________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ 11. List two things you learned about the new Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1890 (Thomas "Czar" Reed from Maine) _____________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 12. How did Senator James Blaine from Maine reshape the Republican Party? 13. What hurt Senator Blaine's reputation? 14. Why did reform-minded Republicans (Mugwumps) switch allegiance and campaign for the Democratic nominee (Grover Cleveland) in 1884? 15. List three positive things you learned about the Democratic nominee for president in 1884 (Grover Cleveland)? ________________________________ __________________________________ _________________________________ 16. What did Republicans question about Grover Cleveland's private life in 1884? 17. What were Democrats labeled in one of the dirtiest election campaigns in history? 18. How did Catholics helped ensure the Democrats their first presidential victory since 1856? 19. How did President Cleveland's vision of the government compare to President Jefferson's? 20. Besides implementing a new civil service system describe what President Cleveland did on the following issues? - Private pension bills for Civil War Veterans falsely claiming to have served or injured in the Civil War - Interstate Commerce Act - Dawes Act - Government land from cattle ranches and the railroads .