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| employed bribery, graft, and fraudalent elections to milk New York of as much as $200 million, was eventually put into prison |
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| due to popular mistrust of illegitimate dealings in the gov., inflation depreciated the value of paper money, the gov. continued to withdraw the paper money from circulation and to redeem all paper currency in gold at face value beginning in 1879 |
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| caused by overspeculation; too much expansion had taken place, too many people had taken out loans of which they were unable to pay back due to a lack of profit from where they had invested their money |
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| supposedly guaranteed equal accomadations in public places and prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection, supreme court ruled most of it unconstitutional, stating that only the gov. could not violate civil right, but individuals could |
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| the republican Hayes and democratic Tilden ran for president in the election of 1876, though Tilden had the majority of the votes, a committee was called together after LA, SC, and FL had voting discrepencies to determine the winner, they chose Hayes and were only able to calm democrats after agreeing to remove troops from LA anc SC |
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| leader, of sioux tribe that attacked and killed 81 white soldiers trying to create a path to Montana's goldfields; indian that tried to take refuge in Canada after the battle of Little Bighorn |
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| Custer and Little Bighorn |
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| after being mistreated, Indians fought back against whites and killed 81 white soldiers trying to create a path to Montana's goldfields, after time they fought again for their land against Custer, they massacred his men but surrendered on their way to Canada |
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| teacher of the deaf that invented the telephone |
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| versatile inventor, dull witted boy that invented the phonograph, mimeograph, dictagraph, and the moving picture; perfected the electric light bulb |
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| declared that private property used for public good be regulated by the gov. (railroads, grain elevator rates) |
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| 1878-1880, some 25,000 blacks from LA, TX, and MS surged in a mass exodus to Kansas, stopped by a steamboat captain that refused to transport them across the Mississippi |
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