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Democratic backsliding in the United States | HearLore
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Democratic backsliding in the United States
Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction eraIn 1876, the presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden ended in a national crisis that would reshape American democracy for…
McCarthyismOn the 21st of March 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9835 into law. This document required every federal civil-service employee to…
Compromise of 1877On the morning of the 2nd of March 1877, President pro tempore Thomas W. Ferry announced that Rutherford B. Hayes had been elected president by an electoral…
Nadir of American race relationsRayford Logan published a book in 1954 that named the years from 1877 to 1901 as the nadir of American race relations. He argued this period marked when…