Unit 6 Study Guide
Rutherford B. Hayes ? 19th U.S. president, Republican that ran against Democrat Tilden. He received fewer popular and electoral votes, but he still became president after the Compromise of 1877 James Garfield ? Elected president in 1880 on the Republican ticket, Garfield was murdered by Stalwart Charles Guiteau claiming that the Conklingites would now get all the good jobs now that Arthur was president. Chester Arthur ? Vice president of Garfield; became president after a Stalwart assassinated Garfield. He refused to award Stalwarts any federal posts and helped legislate civil-service reform by signing the Pendleton Act in 1883