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29 Cards in this Set
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Political machines
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Powerful Organized political parties
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Political bosses
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Leaders of the machines
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Graft
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The obtation of money through illegal ways
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Kickbacks
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Payments of part of the earnings from contracts
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Alexander Shepard
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Financed city projects, political boss
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James Pendergast
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Well liked boss in Kansas City Missouri
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George Washington plunkitt
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Used honest graft for money
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William Marcy tweed
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Collected over $200 million in graft between 1865-1871
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Thomas Nast
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Criticized tweed in cartoons
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Mugwumps
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Algonquian word for big chief
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Gilded age
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Age of corruption
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Stalwarts
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Strongly opposed civil service rights
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James A. Garfield
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Presidential candidate
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Chester A. Arthur
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Vice presidential candidate
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Pendleton civil service act
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Examined pele and gave competition for government jobs
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Grover Cleveland
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Opposed Tammany hall while he was governor of New York
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Benjamin Harrison
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Republican presidential candidates
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Cooperatives
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Farmers piled there money and resources together to get better prices for goods and cheaper costs
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Graduated income tax
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Taxes higher income at higher rates
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Gold standard
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Each dollar is equal to a certain amount of gold
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National grange
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Social organization that as it grew so did problems for farmers
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Interstate commerce act
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Prevented the railroads from being unjust or giving secret rebates and refunds
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Leader of the alliance movement
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Bland-Allison act
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Like the Sherman silver purchase act it required the government to purchase a certain amount of silver and mint it into coins
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Sherman Silver purchase act
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Like the Bland-Allison act it required the government to purchase a certain amount of silver and mint it into coins
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Populist party
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Combination of farmers coop leaders and reformers that called for a change in government
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James B. Weaver
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Nominated by the populist party to run for president in the 1892 election
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William McKinley
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Presidential candidate for the 1896 election for the republicans
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William Jennings Bryan
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A two term representative from Nebraska that ran on the silver free platform
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