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43 Cards in this Set
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Who was the republican nominee
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Hayes
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Who was the democratic nominee?
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TIlden
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who won popular vote?
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tilden
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who was elected?
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hayes
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what were the 3 states in the election fraud
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south carolina, florida and louisiana
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what was the agreement hayes agreed to?
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compromise of 1877- the official end of reconstruction
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the symbol of the Republican tactic of attacking Democrats with reminders of the Civil War
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bloody shirt
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corrupt construction company whose bribes and payoffs to congressmen and others created a major Grant administration scandal
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Credit Moblier company
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mark twain's sarcastic name for the post-civil war era, which emphasized its atmosphere of greed and corruption
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Gilded Age
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republican party faction, led by Senator Roscoe Conkling, that opposed all attempts at civil-service reform
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Stalwart
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Republican party faction, led by James G. Blaine, that gave lukewarm support to the civil-service idea while still battling for patronage and spoils
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half-breeds
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term for racial segregation laws imposed in the 1890s
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Jim Crow
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first democratic president since the Civil War; defender of laissez-faire economics and low tariffs
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Grover Cleveland
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financiers Jim Fisk and Jay Gould tried to involve the Grant administration in a corrupt scheme to
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corner the gold market
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boss tweed's widespread corruption was finally brought to halt by
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the journalistic exposes of The New York Times and cartoonist Thomas Nast
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The Credit Mobilier scandal involved
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railroad corporation fraud and the subsequent bribery of congressmen
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Grant’s greatest failing in the scandals that plagued his administration was
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his toleration of corruption and his loyalty to crooked friends
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besides the democrats, the third party that backed horace greeley against grant in the election of 1872 was
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the liberal republican party
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the depression of the 1870s led to increasing demands for
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inflation of the money supply by issuing more paper currency
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westerners and farmers who attacked the "crime of 73" were calling for
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the coinage of more silver money to stop deflation
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the political system of the "gilded age" was generally characterized by
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strong party loyalties, high voter turnout, and few disagreements on national issues
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the primary goal for which all faction sin both political parties contented was
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patronage
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in the key tradeoff featured in the compromise of 1877
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republicans got the presidency in exchange for the final removal of federal troops from the south
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which of the following was NOT among the changes that affected african-americans in the south after federal troops were withdrawn in the compromise of 1877?
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the forced migration of black farmers to the north and west
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the supreme court's ruling in plessy v. ferguson upholding "separate but equal" public facilities in effect legalized
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the system of unequal segretation between the races
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the first chinese immigrants to the US came primarily
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to work in the gold fields and on the railroads
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the great railroad strike of 1877 revealed
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the growing threat of class warfare in response to the economic depression of the mid-1870s
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president james garfield was assassinated by
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a mentally unstable disappointed office seeker
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impeach means to
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bring charges
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which part of congress can impeach the president?
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congress
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which part of congress conducts the trial?
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senate
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how many presidents have been impeached
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2 - andrew johnson and bill clintn
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how many presidents have been convicted?
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0
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who conducts the impeachment trial if it is the president and if not?
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chief justice/vice president
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why was johnson impeached?
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violated tenure of office act
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in the whiskey ring scandal, who was stealing the tax money?
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tax collectors
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salary grab scandal
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congressmen were trying to give themselves a raise
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credit mobilier scandal
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railroads opened up a company to siphon off the money
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Lincolns 10 percent plan
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10% of voters swear allegiance to the government
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Andrew Johnson's plan
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requires ratification of the 13th amendment
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Radical Republicans
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wanted to punish the south for the war
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what act did the Radical Repub. pass?
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military reconstruction act; divided south into 5 military districts
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radical repub-- required ratification of the
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13, 14, 15 amendments
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