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Sanborn Contract 1874

Sanborn Contract 1874. William Adams Richardson John D. Sanborn $427,000 in unpaid taxes. Whiskey Ring 1876. St. Louis, Chicago. Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Peoria US Treasury Secretary Benjamin H. Bristow Orville E. Babcock, Grant’s Private Secretary.

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Sanborn Contract 1874

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  1. Sanborn Contract 1874 • William Adams Richardson • John D. Sanborn • $427,000 in unpaid taxes

  2. Whiskey Ring 1876 • St. Louis, Chicago. Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Peoria • US Treasury Secretary Benjamin H. Bristow • Orville E. Babcock, Grant’s Private Secretary The cartoon is by Thomas Nast and is from March of 1876 in Harper's Weekly

  3. Whiskey Ring John Brooks Henderson Benjamin Bristow Orville Babcock James Broadhead

  4. Trading Post Ring 1876 • William Belknap, US Secretary of War • Carrie Belknap

  5. 1876 – 1899 • Election of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) • Star Route Postal Contracts (1881) • Pres. Garfield is Assassinated (1881) • Corruption in Dakota Territory (1884) • Mugwumps (1884)

  6. Election of 1876 Samuel J. Tilden Rutherford B. Hayes La Fayette Grover

  7. Star Route Postal Contracts • Began during Grant Administration • Bradley Barlow • Stephen W. Dorsey • Presidents Hayes, Garfield & Arthur

  8. Garfield Assassination • Williams College • Baltimore and Pacific Railroad • Charles Guiteau

  9. The Assassination ofPresident James A. Garfield

  10. The Presidency ofChester Arthur • Product of the Patronage System • Pendleton Civil Service Act • Independent Executive

  11. Corruption in Dakota Territory • Governor Nehemiah George Ordway • Capital from Yankton to Bismarck • Richard G. Pettigrew • Gilbert A. Pierce

  12. Mugwumps & the Election of 1884 • Divisions within Republican Party • James Blaine • Cleveland (D) won Presidency

  13. Lesson Ideas • My History Space • The National History Enquirer News Report

  14. “We have the best government that money can buy.”Mark Twain Political Scandals of the Gilded Age Dee Ann Owens

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