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How did political parties appeal to voters in the late 19th century?
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appealed to the economic self-interest, such as support of industrialization and pensions for Civil War veterens and their widwos--linking their programs to deeply held beleifs about the nature of family and proper role of government
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How did republicans justify their support of the tarriff?
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a protection for the family home and female wage earners
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what did both republicans and democrats share the belief of?
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that government didn't have a right to regulate corporations
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how did the women in the political process rise?
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by linking economic policy to family values, both national parties reinforced the appeal of their platforms
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who was a woman who played an active role?
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francis willard and followers in the Women's Christian Tempearance Untion helped create the Prohibition and Home Protection party in the 1880s
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Where did Democrats rule in teh 1870s/1880s and what did they campaign for?
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The South and places with large immigrant populations. Many were still mad at Republicans for reconstruction.
They campaigned for minimal government expendentirues and defended immigrants by fierecely opposing prohibtion |
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How could you dsecribe the Democrats on differences
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intolerant of racial differences but were generally more accepting of religious diversity
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What was the major problem with money supply
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how to create a money supply adequately for a growing economy without producing inflation
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What formed in 1877
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The Greenback Party who advocated an expanded money supply
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Who wanted a gold standard and who wanted a bimetal standard and why
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Wealthy....Farmers
Farmers need an expanded money system to handle fluctuating markets...and with the gold standard there is less circulation whcih makes its harder to get loans |
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What 2 issues brought an extremely high voter turnout?
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1) money---tarriff/ goldsilver standard
2) civil service reform |
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What was the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
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instructed Treasury to put silver in the markets
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Who was taking measures to end the spoils system and why?
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Carl Schurz and E.L. Godkin advocated civil service based on merit because they felt it was needed as government grew more complex
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What was up wtih James. A. Garfield?
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1880 president but was assasinated in 1881
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What was the Pendleton Civil Service Act and when was it passed?
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1883.... set standards of merit for federal jobs
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What did Cleveland do?
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1.he fought politcal bosses and spoils men
2. called for lower tariffs because of the surplus in the treasury 3. He refused pensions to veterans who put in false claims (Which went against the Grand Army of the Repubilc) |
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What were people saying the surplus of money should go to?
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1. Untion veteran pensions
2. prok barrel projects |
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What unfortunately happened with Harrison?
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when he became President he reinstituted the spoiles system rewarding hundreds fo supporters
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When Democrats were in control what was the focus on?
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helping agrarian west and south
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what was the Grange
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a relief agency for support and concerened with economic issues
It held the Jacksonian belief that agricultural prodcuts were most honorable of trades |
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Munn v. Illinois
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1877
court rejected railraods and and upheld the Illinois la setting the max rate for grain storage |
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Wabash v. Illinois
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1886, altered from MvI by saying states couldn't regulate interstate commerce
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When and what did the ICC do?
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it was created after Wabash v. Illinois to regulate railraods. It couldn't control but ti did set up the principle for federal regulation of interstate transports
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what happened to the grange movement?
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it failed because
1. lack of cash 2. railroads controlling govts 3. idealist |
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What else failedl ike the Grange?
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Southern Alliance and the National Colored Farmer's Alliance...had lack of capital to finance and purchase equpiment and supplies
the movement would die in the Great Plains when rain came because speculation was very big there and grain was comign |
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what did the Southern and Northwestern Alliance eventually form
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1892,,,People's Party of the US (Populist Party)
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Because of the 15th amendment, what 3 obstructions for African Americans arose?
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poll taxes, literacy tests and teh "grandfather clause"
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how did lynching gain popularity
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it fed off the poor's fear of loosing "manhood" to black farmers
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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1896
said separate but equal was okay |
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who was Booker t. Washington
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believed in gradual assimilatin and thought that when blacks proved their worth, racism woudl die out
He wrote: Up From Slavery which talekd about self worth and rising up |
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who was W.E.B. Debois
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complete opposite from washington
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Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894
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lowered duties but made modest income tax. this was really the first time the whygovernment was collecting moeny not for war reasons
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Panic of 1893?
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resulted from the economic boom of the 1880s where railraods issues more stock...in 1893 teh raildroad falled which created a weak confidence in the gold standard
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depression of 1893
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major unemploymenta nd swamped relief agencie
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Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co
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rules that government could impose a direct tax on personal property
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why do clevelands policise split the democratic party?
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1) farm leaders and silver Democrats are oposed to the Sherman Silver Purhacse Act
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how did the depression help change socail thought
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middle class charitable workers realized that thinking individual character flaws caused poverty were incorrect and began taking more time to investigate the deeper route
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describe the watershed election of 1896
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Williams Jennings Bryan ran as a Democrat on a populist platform against Wililam McKinley
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Why did Bryan Lose the election?
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1. republican scare tactics
2. core constituency was limited 3. concentrated on siliver which held little appeal to factory workers and urban middle class or family farmers |
