Issues during the Gilded Age

During the late 19th century, a great number of issues arose, and not necessarily just between political parties. "Waving the blood shirt" was a phrase used to describe the election of former military war heroes as president. Some examples include George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Ulysses S. Grant. This was really a cheap method of acquiring presidential office, as a great general cannot be guaranteed to be a great president. Another problem was the tariff, a major cause of the Civil War, which was a tax on imported non-American goods design…