Reconstruction: Sharecropping and Scandals of Grant's Administration by Kylie Grace Taylor https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q en-us 2022-10-04 13:39:49 UTC 2022-10-05 20:24:42 UTC hello@padlet.com kylietaylor5 https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2323955990 -two major stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad were representatives of Massachusetts, Oaks Ames and Thomas C. Durant.

 -In 1867 these two men started a dummy construction company and gave them contracts to build the last 600 miles of the transcontinental railroad

 -This hurt the careers of many government officials and almost made our country go bankrupt

-They did this by laying the track for two to three times its actual value]]> 2022-10-03 14:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2323955990 kylietaylor5 https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2324334027 2022-10-03 18:12:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2324334027 things that made sharecropping result in debt laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325726669 -High interest rates 
-unpredictable harvests
-unscrupulous landlords and merchants]]> 2022-10-04 13:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325726669 definition laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325728901 sharecropping, [a] form of tenant farming in which the landowner furnished all the capital and most other inputs and the tenants contributed their labour.
                                                   
]]> 2022-10-04 13:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325728901 "slavery by another name" laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325731069 2022-10-04 13:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325731069 definition laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325759805 [an] agricultural system in which landowners contribute their land and a measure of operating capital and management while tenants contribute their labour with various amounts of capital and management, the returns being shared in a variety of ways.]]> 2022-10-04 14:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325759805 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325768081 2022-10-04 14:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325768081 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325775038 2022-10-04 14:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325775038 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325808988 - crop failures
- low cotton prices]]> 2022-10-04 14:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325808988 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325813696 - laziness
- ill health

]]> 2022-10-04 14:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325813696 kylietaylor5 https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325815761 -passed March 3, 1873 one day before Grant's 2nd term inauguration

-gave a 50% raise to the President and government officials

-infuriated citizens, who claimed it wasn't fair]]> 2022-10-04 14:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325815761 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325817339 - poor management
- exhaustion of the soil

]]> 2022-10-04 14:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325817339 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325820567 - excessive interest rates
- inability to compete with tenant labor]]> 2022-10-04 14:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325820567 social aspect laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325832831 - approximately two thirds of sharecroppers were white
- approximately one third was black
- they were all on the bottom of the social ladder
- they eventually did organize and petitioned for better rights]]> 2022-10-04 14:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325832831 risks: laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325834426 2022-10-04 14:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325834426 kylietaylor5 https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325843115 -the years following the civil war the liquor tax became extremely high to help pay off the debt from fighting

-many distillers bribed people the treasury office, in return they received tax stamps agt a fraction of their face value

-Treasury Secretary of Bristow launched a huge investigation which convicted over 100 officials ]]> 2022-10-04 14:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325843115 the life of a sharecropper laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325843177 families would rent small plots of land and farm them together and then harvest]]> 2022-10-04 14:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325843177 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325853359 2022-10-04 14:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325853359 video: laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325859568 2022-10-04 14:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325859568 video: laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325859838 2022-10-04 14:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325859838 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325862868 2022-10-04 14:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325862868 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325864000 2022-10-04 14:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325864000 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325867253 2022-10-04 14:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325867253 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325871789 2022-10-04 14:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325871789 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325873353 2022-10-04 14:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325873353 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325875666 2022-10-04 14:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325875666 kylietaylor5 https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325881112
-started during the presidencies of Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur. 

-this scandal was the bribery and corruption of Federal postal officials which gave high bribes and postal delivery contracts to private contractors

-Congress started investigations in 1872 
 
-During the Author Administration the fraudsters were prosecuted and the Star Route postal ring was shut down.]]> 2022-10-04 14:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2325881112 laceydauses https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2328255369 2022-10-05 20:24:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kylietaylor5/1sbip7s2vwza2u9q/wish/2328255369