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24 Cards in this Set
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Jay Gould
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Along with Jim Fisk, these millionaire partners plotted to corner the gold market in 1869 by working with Grant to not have the treasury release gold so they could bid the prices of gold skyward. However the Treasury on Black Friday released gold and put many buismess men up against a wall.
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Thomas Nast
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In 1872 cartoonist Thomas Nast depicted "Boss" Tweed as a powerful giant looming over a puny law force. This cartoon allowed illiterates to understand that Tweed was buying out the law and bribing officials.
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Samuel Tilden
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Headed the Boss Tweed persecution which gained fame and later was nominated for presidential nominee for the Democrats. He loses the election.
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James A. Garfield
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Dark horse candidate for the republicans coming from the power state of Ohio in the 1880 election.Winning the election while waving the bloody shirt, he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau and would die in 1881. Garfields death lead to the Pendleton Act of 1883 which stopped the corrupt spoils system from continuing.
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Chester A. Arthur
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Vice president and then president during Garfield's presidency, Arthur a stalwart reformed the spoils system with the Pendleton act which shocked all. This act partially divorced politics from patronage, but it helped drive politicians into "marriages of convenience" with big business leaders.
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Grover Cleveland
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Was the first democrat to be elected since Buchanan in 1885. He believed the people support the government not the government supporting the people. Cleveland denied military pensions and put two former confederates in his cabinet. He also lowered tariffs.
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Benjamin Harrison
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Elected in 1889 Harrison won although the election was filled with corruptness and parties buying votes the main issue was on the tariff. Harrison who supported High Tariffs passed the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890
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Adlai E. Stevenson
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Vice president to Cleveland in his second term, who would of taken presidency if Clevelands surgery didn't go well. During in times of depression this would of made matters worse due to his "soft money" policies.
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William Jennings Bryan
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A democratic congress man tried to repeal the Silver act and gave a speech of the positives of free silver. Cleveland interrupted the fillibuster in congress and disrupted Bryan and his party at the very outset of his party
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J.P. Morgan
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"the bankers' banker" and head of the wall street syndicate. Morgan gave the government $65 million in gold and charged commission of 7 million. The loan helped restore confidence in the nation's finances.
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Gilded Age
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remarked by Mark twain and is grants presidency to Cleveland's second term references the amount of money they were making was actually cheap
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Pork-Barrel bills
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Refers to the government spending with a bias to monetary benefits on were the congress placed their money.
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Populism People's Party
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* Most important third party
* gain votes * their party platform changes the two major parties views * wanted senators directly elected * wanted to see railroad industry controlled by federal government Based off of farmers, "People's Party" |
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Crop-Lein System
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Sharecropping or tenant farming, when small farmers work for merchants and debtors where merchants would get some of the lein and the merchants eventually manipulated the farmers so they would perptually stay in debt .
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Tweed Ring
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"Boss" Tweed who employed bribery, gaft, and fraudlent election. he would pay off opposers. he took about 200 million dollars from new york. The new york times posted evidence of his crime and he was persecuted.
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Credit Mobilier
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Pacific Rail road company in 1872 decided to form a new contruction company and hire themselves in order to make higher pay in order to avoid being caught be congress they paid off two congressmen and the vice president
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Brand-Allison Act
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1878 The Bland–Allison Act was an 1878 act of Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars. Though the bill was vetoed by President Rutherford B. Hayes, the Congress overrode Hayes' veto on February 28, 1878 to enact the law.
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Compromise of 1877
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Republican Hayes would become president after much it went to the house because of his promise to remove federal troops in the south
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Pendleton Act
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Was the manga Carta in civil service reform 1883 after Garfield's assasination. It made it so only qualified persons could enter the government and didn't allow the spoils system. How ever large corporations soon came to be the problem
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Challenging the civil rights act of 1875 the supreme court ruled the jim crow laws legal as long as the separate facilities for blacks was equal.
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Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
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Due to the mass upset of Irish-Americans in California and the railroad completed and the gold rush over, the US government closed its borders to china to stop the flow of immigrants
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1890
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While not authorizing the free and unlimited coinage of silver that the Free Silver supporters wanted, it increased the amount of silver the government was required to purchase every month. The Sherman Silver Purchase Act had been passed in response to the growing complaints of farmers and miners interests. Farmers had immense debts that could not be paid off due to deflation caused by overproduction, and they urged the government to pass the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in order to boost the economy and cause inflation, allowing them to pay their debts with cheaper dollars.[2] Mining companies, meanwhile, had extracted vast quantities of silver from western mines; the resulting oversupply drove down the price of their product, often to below the point where it was not profitable to mine it. They hoped to enlist the government to artificially increase the demand for silver.
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McKinley Tariff
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enacted by Benjamin Harrison in 1890 supported by William Mckinley it was raise the tariff 48.4 percebt
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Horace Greeley
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Was the liberal republican nominee and was the editor of the New York Tribune in 1872. He lost to Grant.
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