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OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON 

 GROVER CLEVELAND 



Outline 



I. Years of Preparation 



(1) Birth and parentage 



(2) Education 



(3) Removal to the West 



(4) Practice of law 



II. Early Political Career 



(1) As sheriff 



(a) Serious conception of his duties 



(2) As mayor of Buffalo 

 (a) Financial reform 



(3) As governor of New York 

 (a) The veto governor 



(4) The election of 1884 



III. First A dmiiiist ration 



(1) The Cabinet 



( 2 ) Legislation 



(a) Contract labor law 



(b) Presidential Succession Act, 1886 



(c) Anti-Polygamy law, 1887 



(d) Electoral Count Act, 1887 



(e) Chinese Exclusion Act, 1888 



(f) Interstate Commerce Act, 1887 



(3) Other governmental affairs 



(a) Advance in civil service 



(b) Controversy between President 



and Senate 



(c) Troops sent to Salt Lake City 



(d) Marines sent to Panama 



(e) States admitted 



(4) Miscellaneous events 



(a) Haymarket Riot in Chicago 



(b) Other labor troubles 



(c) Arrival of Statue of Liberty 



(d) New Orleans Cotton Exposition 



(e) Destruction of Charleston 



(5) Election of 1888 



. IV. Second Administration 



(1) Election of 1892 



(2) Legislation 



(a) Sherman Silver Purchase Act re- 



pealed 



(b) Tariff revision 



(3) Foreign affairs 



(a) Hawaiian annexation treaty with- 



drawn 



(b) Treaty with China 



(c) Venezuela message 



(4) Other events 



(a) Financial panic 



(b) Labor troubles 



1. Troops sent to Chicago 



(c) World's Columbian Exposition 



(d) Utah admitted 



V. Summary 



(1) Later life 



(2) Character 



Questions 



What words, spoken shortly before his death, summed up his aim in life? 



How did Cleveland manage to displease both the civil-service reformers and the 

 "spoils system" advocates? 



What led to his nomination in 1892? 



What significance had the fact that he once sprung the trap and hanged a criminal 

 in showing his attitude toward public office? 



What was the most important legislation of his first Presidential term? 



How many Presidents have served two terms not consecutively? 



What was the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, and why was it repealed? 



What were "Mugwumps," and what part did they have in determining the career 

 of Cleveland? 



How did the public attitude toward Cleveland at his death differ from the atti- 

 tude toward him when he went out of office? 



What is regarded as his greatest act? 



Why did not Cleveland fight in the War of Secession? What did he do instead? 



What was the Haymarket Riot? 



How did the President incur the enmity of a governor of Illinois? 



