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Waving the Bloody Shirt
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refered to a political conspiracy used in campaigns during the Reconstruction. it described the attempts made by northern Republicans to defeat southern Democrats about bloody sacrifice designed to keep alive the hatreds and prejudices of the Civil War period. During the attacks, in the campaigns of 1872 and 1876, they would wave a bloody shirt to remind audiences of the Civil War suffering.
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Compromise of 1877
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Democrats agreed to give Hayes the victory in the presidential election he hadnt won. In return, the new President agreed to remove the remaining federal troops from southern states and to support appropriations for rebuilding levees along the Mississippi Rover and to give rights to southern railroads. The compromise opened the way for Democrats to regain control of southern politics and marked the end of Reconstruction
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Credit Mobilier
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o involved the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier of America construction company. The distribution of Credit Mobilier stocks by Congressman Oakes Ames along with cash bribes to congressmen took place during the Andrew Johnson presidency in 1868. The revelation of the congressmen who received cash bribes or stocks in Credit Mobilier took place during the Ulysses S. Grant administration in 1872.
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
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established the United States Civil Service Commission, which placed most federal government employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called spoils system. The act provided for some government jobs to be filled on the basis of competitive exams.
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Laissez-Faire
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means allowing industry to be free of state intervention, especially restrictions in the form of tariffs and government monopolies. The phrase is French and literally means "let do", though it broadly implies "let it be" or "leave it alone."
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Robber Barons
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the name given to unscrupulous and despotic nobility of the medieval period. In different countries the term has slightly different meaning. For example there is the German robber baron (German: Raubritter). In the United States, the term has been used to describe corrupt and unscrupulous industrialists.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Interstate Commence Act
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Haymarket Square Riot
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Pullman Strike
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