And Ereio's Original.

I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation

into the worst case scenario.

In my... into the worst case scenario in my own brain.

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest

disasters and find out who's to blame. They say history repeats itself. Not on my watch. My name is Rebecca

Delgado Smith and I am the Alarmist. Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to the Alarmist.

A comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest tragedies

and disasters and figure out who's to blame. Today we're discussing the election of

1876. Here's what you need to know.

The American Civil War ended in 1865 after the defeat of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army by Union Forces.

By then, America had entered into a reconstruction period aimed at rebuilding the war-torn nation and establishing civil rights

to former black slaves.

More than a decade after the Civil War, the nation was preparing for a presidential election that would determine the successor of Ulysses S. Grant and his two-term Republican-led administration.

At the time, the Republican Party supported equal rights,

while the Democratic Party focused on policy

that would prolong the subjugation of black citizens.

And both parties knew that this would be an intensely

fought election.

Just a few years earlier, the ratification

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