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28 Cards in this Set
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Political Machines
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Well-organized political parties that dominated city government.
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Political Bosses
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Managed the political machines
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Alexander Shepard
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Political boss, he financed sewer and water systems, paved streets, and provided other public services.
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James Pendergast
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Particularly well-liked political boss in Kansas City, Missouri
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Graft
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Acquisition of money or political power through illegal or dishonest methods.
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Kickbacks
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Payments of part of the earnings from a job or contract.
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George Washington Plunkitt
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Political boss of Tammany Hall.
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William Marcy Tweed
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Reigned as the boss of Tammany Hall in the 1860s
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Thomas Nast
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Drew political cartoons and published 50 cartoons in Harpers Weekly.
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Gilded Age
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Name applied by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner to late 1800s America to describe the corruption and greed that lurked below the surface of expression.
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Stalwarts
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Strongly opposed civil service reform, led by Roscoe Conkling.
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James A. Garfield
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The Republican Party's presidential candidate in 1880.
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Chester A. Arthur
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Vice President nominee.
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
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Established the Civil Service Commission to administer competitive examinations to those people seeking government jobs.
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Mugwumps
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"Big Chiefs"
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Grover Cleveland
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Democratic candidate.
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Benjamin Harrison
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Republicans choice for presidency in 1888
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National Grange
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First major farmers' organization, National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
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Cooperatives
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Organizations in which groups of famers pool their resourves to buy and sell goods.
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Prohibited railroads from giving secret rebates, or refunds to large shippers or charging more for short hauls than for long hauls over the same line.
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Urged people to take ac tion for the Alliance movement.
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Gold Standard
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Congress voted to stop coining silver and to convert the money.
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Bland-Allison Act
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Required the government to buy silver each month and mint it into coins.
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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Required the government to buy silver each month and mint it into coins.
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Populist Party
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Coalition of Alliance members, farmers, labor leaders, and reformers.
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James B. Weaver
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Populists nominated him to run in the 1892 presidential election.
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William McKinely
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Republicans presidential canidate.
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William Jennings Bryan
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Democratic presidential canidate.
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