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Grover Cleveland Born March 18, 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey Died June 24, 1908 in Princeton, New Jersey Political Party: Democratic Party First Term: 1885-1889 Second Term: 1893-1897 Vice President First Term: Thomas Andrews Hendricks Vice President Second Term: Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Theme: Grover Cleveland can be considered a racist. Grover Cleveland had the same belief and many other Northern people had after the civil war. He agreed with many other northerners that blacks are not their equal and that they are beneath them. He saw the concept of reconstruction a fanciful idea. He didn’t see the need to enforce the fifteenth amendment, which gave black men the right to vote. Cleveland saw the thought of integrated schools (black and white children learning together) was an immoral idea and should not be allowed. During his Presidency not one Black male was appointed to a patronage job. However he allowed Fredric Douglas to continue his job as the recorder of deeds and replaced him with another black man when Fredrick resigned. He saw the suffrage of blacks a social problem and didn’t want to interfere.

Thesis: Grover Cleveland deserves a C for his two terms as president. This grade was given due to His repeal of the Sherman silver Purchase act of 1893. This act along with the Protective tariff and the Panic of 1893.

Inaugural Address: Between both of his Inaugural Address Grover Cleveland promise a few things. One was the reduction of crime in the cities throughout America. He also promised democracy to the people of America. In 1893 however his main focus was trying to repair the troubled economy that was diminishing. Which he believed he repaired.

Congress: Grover Cleveland had a pretty good relationship with congress. With the aid of congress he had a few laws passed. For example the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. He also worked with Congress on other laws that they wanted passed. Most of congress was Democratic during his presidency which also means most of the laws passed were in favor of the democrats. Overall his relationship with congress was a decent one.

Most Successful outcome: Cleveland most successful outcome was repealing the Sherman Silver Purchase act. This act increased the amount of silver that the government could purchase. When the silver was turned into the bank people received a Treasury note which could be redeemed for either gold or silver later. Most of the note were redeemed for gold this greatly reducing the Governments gold supply. This repeal was one of the things that Cleveland di to fix the economy during the panic of 1893. Which the panic was thought to be a cause of the panic of 1893. Grover Cleveland though that a major thing that he had to accomplish during his presidency was save the government as much money as possible and this was believed to be one of those ways.

Least Successful outcome: Grover Cleveland’s least successful outcome occurred during his second term as president. This was the depression of 1893.the panic of 1893 came to be because of bank failures and demolished railroads. Considering the Fact that Cleveland wanted to save the Government as much money as possible not much was done to overcome this Panic. Other than the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act (which many people were against).

Conclusion: At the end of his term the country seemed to be worse off than in the begging of his presidency. Overall however his presidency didn’t really have a better outcome or a worse outcome. It was pretty much neutral overall. This goes along with my thesis that Grover Cleveland deserves a C for his two terms as president. This grade was given due to His repeal of the Sherman silver Purchase act of 1893. This act along with the Protective tariff and the Panic of 1893.

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