The campaign of 1888 between Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison plays up the economic differences between the parties. It is also one of the closest elections in American history with Harrison winning an electoral majority but losing the popular vote to Cleveland by 100,000. Almost immediately Congress begins to confront some of the more pressing issues of the day with passage of the McKinley Tariff, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, and the Dependent Pension Bill. Public pressure builds for railroad legislation which Congress grudgingly passes with the Interstate Commerce Act. Americans, wary of activist government; hand Republicans a major loss in the mid-year elections of 1890. Two years later Harrison secures his party's nomination over Blaine but cannot generate enough enthusiasm to defeat the Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland.

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1888 presidential election, McKinley Tariff, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, Republicans loss in 1890 mid-year election, Harrison's difficulties with party, Politics after Reconstruction

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