Chester A. Arthur

Examples of Chester A. Arthur in the following topics:

• Civil Service Reform

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  • While reform legislation did not pass during Hayes's presidency, his advocacy provided, "a significant precedent as well as the political impetus for the Pendleton Act of 1883," which was signed into law by President Chester Arthur.
  • However, the law also would prove to be a major political liability for Arthur.
  • Failure to obtain a conviction tarnished the administration's image, but Arthur did succeed in putting a stop to the fraud.
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• Garfield and Arthur

  • As president, Chester Arthur continued many of the reforms of his predecessor, though he had benefited from the spoils system himself.
  • A lawyer from upstate New York, after the Civil War, Chester A.
  • However, when a new trial of Brady was granted due to questions of bribery, Arthur removed five federal office-holders who were sympathetic with the defense, including a former Senator.The second trial began in December 1882 and lasted until July 1883 but, again, did not result in a guilty verdict.
  • Failure to obtain a conviction tarnished the administration's image, but Arthur did succeed in putting a stop to the fraud.
  • However, the law would also prove to be a major political liability for Arthur.

• Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Rights

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A.
  • Arthur on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868.
  • Without a certificate, he or she faced deportation. "
  • The Supreme Court determined that refusing entry at a port does not require due process and is legally equivalent to refusing entry at a land crossing.
  • This ruling triggered a brief boycott of U.S. goods in China.

• Progressivism for Whites Only

  • For the national Democratic Party, the alignment after Reconstruction resulted in a powerful Southern region that was useful for congressional clout.
  • While the AFL preached a policy of egalitarianism in regard to African American workers, by 1912, it was actively discriminating against them.
  • The Chinese Exclusion Act was a federal law signed by Chester A.
  • Arthur allowing the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years.
  • Editorial cartoon showing a Chinese man being excluded from entry to the "Golden Gate of Liberty."

• The Nativist Response to Immigration

  • Nativism refers to a political sentiment that favors greater rights and privileges for white, native-born Americans.
  • The Chinese Exclusion Act was a U.S. federal law signed by Chester A.
  • Arthur on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868.
  • In Charlestown, Massachusetts, a nativist mob attacked and burned down a Catholic convent in 1834.
  • The Bennett Law caused a political uproar in Wisconsin in 1890, as the state government passed a law that threatened to close down hundreds of German-language elementary schools.

• Leapfrogging to Tokyo

  • Forces led by Admiral Chester Nimitz, with a smaller land force and larger fleet, would advance north towards the island and capture the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and the Marianas, going generally in the direction of the Bonin Islands.
  • MacArthur greatly supported this strategy in his effort to regain the Philippines.
  • While MacArthur claimed to have invented the strategy, it initially came out of the Navy.
  • Leapfrogging had a number of advantages.
  • US Admiral Chester Nimitz was appointed Supreme Allied Commander Pacific Ocean Areas.

• MacArthur's Leapfrogging

  • Operation Cartwheel (1943–1944) was a major military strategy in the Pacific theater of World War II that aimed at militarily neutralizing the major Japanese base at Rabaul and was directed by the Supreme Allied Commander in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA)—General Douglas MacArthur.
  • Allied forces from the Pacific Ocean Areas command—under Admiral Chester W.
  • MacArthur formulated a strategic outline, the Elkton Plan, to capture Rabaul from bases in Australia and New Guinea.
  • King, the Chief of Naval Operations, proposed a plan with similar elements but under Navy command.
  • In early November, MacArthur's plan for a westward advance along the coast of New Guinea to the Philippines was incorporated into plans for the war against Japan.

• Nimitz in the Central Pacific

  • Chester Nimitz, fleet admiral of the United States Navy, played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces.
  • Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Chester W.
  • Although the Coral Sea area was under MacArthur's command, Rear Admiral Fletcher (commanding Task Force 17) and Vice Admiral William F. 
  • Halsey (commanding Task Force 16) were directed to continue to report to Nimitz while in the Coral Sea area, not to MacArthur.
  • Admiral Chester Nimitz, representing the United States, signs the instrument of surrender, September 2, 1945.

• Abraham Lincoln's Family

  • After President Lincoln’s assassination, his wife Mary Todd Lincoln secured the first life pension for the widow of a president, and their son Robert rose to prominence as a lawyer and politician.
  • In 1868, Elizabeth Keckley, Mary’s former modiste and friend as well as a former slave, successful businesswoman, and civil activist, published Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, a book that attempted to provide insight not only into Keckley’s experiences during her time in slavery, but also into Mary’s life and character following the scandal.
  • On July 14, 1870, two years after publication of the book, Mary was granted a life pension in the amount of $3,000 (or $56,139 in 2016 dollars), which was unprecedented at the time and passed by a small margin on account of how many congressmen Mary had alienated over the years.
  • Robert was discussed as a possible Republican candidate many times, but never mounted a campaign, with the exception of his elected position as town supervisor of South Chicago from 1876 to 1877.
  • Nonetheless, Robert was appointed secretary of war during the administrations of James Garfield and Chester Arthur and served as minister to England during Benjamin Harrison’s administration.

• The Military Implementation of Containment

  • General Douglas MacArthur was given the command of UN troops in Korea.
  • MacArthur was placed in command on July 8.
  • Truman blamed MacArthur's focus on victory and adopted a "limited war" policy.
  • For his part, MacArthur denounced Truman's "no-win policy."
  • This photograph depicts General MacArthur observing the Incheon Landing.