HIS 119S Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Quanah Parker, George Armstrong Custer, Comstock Lode
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Patronage giving government jobs to friends even if they"re not qualified. Each of them are to give 10% of their salary to the party the president was for. Small businessmen, farmers, and poor people wanted to add silver to the currency. Congress passed the bland allison act which added silver into the money supply. 1880 french started building a canal in panama violates the monroe. We told them go ahead but we would control it. Hayes second president to only run one term james k. polk was the first. Hayes worked for temperance and black education when he left the white. Immigrants started coming from eastern and southern europe along with some germans. Go out west, live on a piece of land and the us will give it to you. 1869 may 10th transcontinental railroad was complete. 1874 - battle of palo duro canyon, south of amarillo. General chasing after them to force them only a reservation.
