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68 Cards in this Set
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What was the population of the United States in 1870? 1800?
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1870- 39 million 1800- 5,308,483
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What major problem did Ulysses S. Grant face as the Republican nominee and future President of the United States?
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Inept politician
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What was the republican party platform for the election of 1868?
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Continued reconstruction of the south under glinting steel of federal bayonets
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What famous phrase did Grant utter concerning his election of 1868?
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"Let us have peace"
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What political tactic did the Republicans use in the presidential election of 1868?
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"Waving the bloody shirt"
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What was meant by the answer in the question above?
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Reviving gory memories of the civil war
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What 3 states did not cast votes in the election of 1868? Why?
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Mississippi, Texas, Virginia; they were still unreconstructed
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Who probably was most responsible for Grant's victory in 1868?
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Former slaves
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Which 2 men crafted a plot in 1869 to corner the gold market by bribing Grant's brother-in-law with $25,000?
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"Jubilee Jim" Fisk & Jay Gould
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Which political boss ran Tammany Hall in NYC?
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Tweed
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Which political party was associated with Tammany Hall?
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Democrats
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Which man was responsible for heading the prosecution of the head of Tammany Hall?
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Samuel J. Tilden
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What cartoonist became famous for his caricatures of Boss Tweed?
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Thomas Nast
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This scandal happened before President Grant took office, but will be blamed on his administration. It involved the forming of a construction company and then cleverly hiring the same construction company at inflated prices to build the railroad line, earning dividends as high as 348%--nice turn on your money
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Crédit Mobilier scandal
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This scandal in the Grant administration robbed the treasury of millions in excise-tax revenue
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Whiskey Ring
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This scandal saw Grant's Secretary of War William Belknap take bribes from suppliers to Indian Reservations and later had to resign from office
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What was the slogan of the Liberal Republicans in the election of 1872?
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"Turn the rascals out"
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What caused the panic of 1873?
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Depression, deflation, and inflation?
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"Cheap Money" supporters would favor what type of monetary policy?
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Reissuance of greenbacks
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What did westerners demand because of the "Crime of 73"?
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A return to the "dollar of our daddies"
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What effect did the hard-money policy have on the Republican Party in the congressional election of 1874?
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Helped elect democratic House of Representatives and spawned greenback labor party
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Who coined the phrase the "Gilded Age"?
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Mark Twain
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What was meant by the term "Gilded Age"? What is the time period for the Gilded Age?
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Time where democrats and republicans struggled for majority in congress; 3 decades
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What could be one of the causes for the nearly 80% voter turnout in the 3 decades after the civil war?
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Ethnic and cultural differences
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Why did the democrats have a solid electoral base in the south and in the northern industrial cities?
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Immigrants and political machines
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What is political patronage?
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Jobs for votes
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What were the Half-Breeds in favor of?
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Spoils system
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What were conklingites in favor of?
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Swapping civil service jobs for votes
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Who will become the champion of the half-breeds? What was a half-breed?
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James G. Blaine; opposed to conklingite acts
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What three states will be disputed in the election of 1876?
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Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina
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Who will be elected president in 1876?
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Hayes
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What compromise will allow him to be elected?
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1877
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What did the electoral count act establish?
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Set up an electoral commission
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What was the problem with the three states in dispute?
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Had irregular returns on ballots
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What major compromise will be made in 1877 which allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president?
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Compromise of 1877
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What was the last feeble gasp of the congressional radical republicans in 1875?
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Civil rights act of 1875
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What did the act try to accomplish?
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Equal accommodations in public places, no racial discrimination in jury selection
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What was the problem with the act?
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Declared 14th amendment unconstitutional
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Why did SCOTUS rule the civil rights cases of 1883 unconstitutional?
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Prohibited only government violations of civil rights
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What did the democrat "redeemer" favor?
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Suppress blacks
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This system had storekeepers extend credit to small farmers for food and supplies and in return took a lien on their harvest, but many merchants manipulated the system so that farmers remained perpetually in debt to them.
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Sharecropping
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This Supreme Court case established the policy of separate, but equal better known as segregation
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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What major event reduced lynching to single digits in the us between 1940 and 1950?
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What was Rutherford Hayes response to striking railroad workers in 1877?
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Called in federal troops
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Why did Chinese immigration to the United States drop dramatically in the census of 1900? Which group in the United States were in favor of this policy?
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Chinese exclusion act;
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Which of the transcontinental railroads were the Chinese responsible for building?
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Central Pacific
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What issue did James Garfield run on in the election of 1880?
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Why was he shot?
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Because of the spoils system
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Who became president when Garfield was shot?
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Arthur
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What is a stalwart?
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Conklingite
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What surprise did Arthur deliver upon Garfield's assassination?
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His integrity
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What famous act will be passed by the Arthur administration(1883)?
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Penelton act
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James Blaine will run against Grover Cleveland in the 1884 presidential election. What letters to will doom Blaine's run for president?
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Mullegan letters
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What was the Republican taunt for Grover Cleveland in 1884? Why did they make this? What was the democrats answer to the taunt?
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"Mawmaw where's my pa" he had an affair with a buffalo woman, gone to the whitehouse
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Which political party will be called the party of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" in the election of 1884? What was the meaning of each?
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Democrats; culture, faith, patriotism of Irish
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What issues did Grover Cleveland face in his first term?
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Lower tariffs, north south chasm, military pensions
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What man will win the presidency in 1888 to become the 1st grandson to be elected president?
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Ben Harrison
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Who was known as Czar Reed? Why?
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Thomas B. Reed; increased power of speaker of the house
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What was unique about the congress of 1888?
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Ruled by speaker
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What political party will come about because of the drumbeat of discontent?
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Populists
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What reforms did the party call for?
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Income tax, ownership of railroads, telegraph, telephone
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Which of these reforms will eventually be passed?
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Shorter work day
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What was Grocer Cleveland's reaction to the Homestead strike of 1892 in Pittsburgh, Pa at an Andrew Carnegie factory?
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Called federal troops
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What did the "grandfather clause" prevent?
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Prevent former slaves from voting
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What caused the Panic of 1893(20 years after 73)?
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Overbuilding and speculation, labor disorders, and agricultural crisis
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Which financier helped to get the United States out of the depression of 1893 by securing $65 million in gold to back the dollar?
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JP Morgan
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Which president are known as the "forgotten presidents"?
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Grant, Arthur, Harrison, Cleveland,
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Place the events in order
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Whiskey ring, compromise of 1877, Chinese exclusion act, Cleveland defeats Blaine for president, telephone is invented, "Billion-dollar" congress, depression of 1894, Plessy vs. Ferguson
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