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Intense Voter Loyalty to the Two Major Political Parties

3. Well-Defined Voting Blocs Democratic Bloc Republican Bloc ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Well-Defined Voting Blocs 2009 ,[object Object],Democrats Republicans Catholics Pro business Jewish Protestants Catholics – pro life African Americans Protestants Recent immigrants Women women – pro life Most Farmers farmers in mid west Young voters Lower middle class Upper middle class Middle class

Very Laissez Faire Federal Govt. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

5. The Presidency as a Symbolic Office ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

1880 Presidential Election: Republicans James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur (VP)

1880 Presidential Election: Democrats

1881: Garfield Assassinated! Charles Guiteau: I Am a Stalwart, and Arthur is President now!

Pendleton Act (1883) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

1884 Presidential Election Grover Cleveland James Blaine * (DEM) (REP)

A Dirty Campaign Ma, Ma…where’s my pa? He’s going to the White House, ha… ha… ha…!

Cleveland’s First Term ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Interstate Commerce Act - 1887 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

1888 Presidential Election Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison (DEM) * (REP)

Sherman Anti-Trust ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

1892 Presidential Election Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison again! * (DEM) (REP)

Cleveland Loses Support Fast! ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Reforms and Reformers ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Robert La Follette “Battling Bob” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Mother Jones ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

John Muir ,[object Object],[object Object]

Upton Sinclair ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Alice Paul ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

W.E.B. DuBois ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Two Amendments ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Election of 1896 ,[object Object],[object Object]

McKinley ,[object Object],[object Object]

Teddy Roosevelt 26 th President ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Teddy Roosevelt ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Taft – 27 th President ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Wilson – 28 th President ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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