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  • Thumbnail for Waving the bloody shirt
    "Waving the bloody shirt" and "bloody shirt campaign" were pejorative phrases, used during American election campaigns during the Reconstruction era, to...
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    campaign, and caused them to rethink their strategy of waving the bloody shirt. After their defeat in Maine, the Republicans began to emphasize policy differences...
    74 KB (6,566 words) - 12:51, 11 November 2024
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    to mock the waving the bloody shirt speech by Benjamin Franklin Butler of Massachusetts, in which he was falsely claimed to have held up a shirt stained...
    32 KB (3,752 words) - 19:52, 23 September 2024
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    1876 United States presidential election (category Electoral fraud in the United States)
    by Republicans raising the Civil War issue, a tactic that was ridiculed by Democrats, who called it "waving the bloody shirt." Republicans chanted, "Not...
    74 KB (5,607 words) - 01:39, 12 November 2024
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    Stalwarts (politics) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    the associated corruption during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Many remaining Radicals, unwavering in their tactic of "waving the bloody shirt"...
    27 KB (2,658 words) - 00:15, 13 September 2024
  • Chattanooga as a representative from Mississippi. The waving of his bloodied shirt became emblematic of the dismissal by many Southern whites of violence...
    6 KB (538 words) - 18:18, 7 October 2024
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    "Waving the bloody shirt" was a phrase used to ridicule opposing politicians who made emotional calls to avenge the blood of political martyrs. The phrase...
    42 KB (5,655 words) - 08:10, 16 October 2024
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    Grant and the Republicans "waved the bloody shirt" by associating the Democrats with secession and with the defeated Confederacy. During the campaign,...
    9 KB (995 words) - 00:22, 12 September 2024
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    Third Party System (category Political history of the United States)
    Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age . (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) covers NY city and state. Calhoun, Charles W. From Bloody Shirt to Full...
    39 KB (4,739 words) - 09:18, 4 November 2024
  • privately tries to persuade him to instead attack the guidance system, which is less heavily guarded, but Crashdown waves the bloody shirt of Tarn and Socinus...
    12 KB (1,202 words) - 20:06, 27 April 2024
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    and civil service reform. Meanwhile, the Republicans "waved the bloody shirt" by associating the Democrats with the Confederacy and criticized Tilden's...
    10 KB (1,021 words) - 02:31, 3 November 2024
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    Benjamin Butler (category Louisiana in the American Civil War)
    Ulysses S. Grant, due to their shared concern for civil rights, tendency to "wave the bloody shirt," and antipathy towards the hardline civil service...
    120 KB (13,402 words) - 21:52, 31 October 2024
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    Joseph B. Foraker (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    governorship for "waving the bloody shirt", that is, castigating the South for the Civil War. President Cleveland in 1887 requested northern governors to return...
    85 KB (11,525 words) - 22:36, 31 October 2024
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    Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    during which she called Grover Cleveland the "hangman of Buffalo" and vigorously waved a bloody shirt. Due to the performance, they stopped booking her for...
    28 KB (2,948 words) - 02:46, 4 September 2024
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    between the candidates were few, but Republicans began the campaign with the familiar theme of waving the bloody shirt. They reminded Northern voters the Democratic...
    135 KB (16,209 words) - 15:52, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1880 Republican National Convention
    to the then-prevailing spoils system of patronage appointments and the campaign strategy of "waving the bloody shirt" employed by Republicans in the years...
    69 KB (7,478 words) - 00:24, 24 September 2024
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    those who ratified the Fourteenth Amendment did not intend to end school segregation. Scalia called this argument "waving the bloody shirt of Brown" and indicated...
    159 KB (15,940 words) - 19:30, 11 November 2024
  • does not like the white shirt. In the past Gansel had been sure that he would have been part of the resistance but while working on The Wave he realized...
    34 KB (4,791 words) - 09:01, 7 November 2024
  • Thomas C. Lanier (category People of Alabama in the American Civil War)
    ... who wave the bloody shirt take their guns and go forth and fight; and I hope they will make a kilkenny fight and no one left to tell the tale. — as...
    2 KB (273 words) - 16:02, 10 December 2023
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    Horatio Seymour (category American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law)
    "waved the bloody shirt", highlighting Seymour's support for mob violence against African-Americans. Though Seymour ran fairly close to Grant in the popular...
    32 KB (2,892 words) - 17:11, 4 November 2024
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