A question on an advancd placement “American Government and Politics” exam might be:
“What was Rutherford B. Hayes called after the “stolen” presidential election of 1876?
The correct answer is “His Fraudulency.”
There is much about the history of the period between 1850 and 1900 that I have learned about in this last 12 months. It is not at all what I had been taught growing up.
After the civil war, everything was corrupt. That is the point at which the "robber barons" had taken over the government and set policy by how much it would enrich them and their allies.