Chapter 16 review Coach Knowles
In 1883 the Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation by overturning the
The civil rights act of 1875
Under the Pendleton Act, people would gain government jobs according to
performance on examinations
launched a fearless crusade against lynching
A fiery young African American woman from Tennessee
proposed that African Americans concentrate on achieving economic goals rather than legal or political ones
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thousands of African Americans who migrated from the rural South to Kansas
Exodus
Greenbacks were paper money that could be exchanged for gold or silver coins.
False
As the election of 1896 approached, leaders of the People's Party decided to make the graduated income tax the focus of their campaign.
False
By embracing Populism and its rural base, William Jennings Bryan and the Democrats won the Northern industrial areas where votes were concentrated.
False
Charles Macune, a Southern leader of the Alliance, introduced a plan in which the government would buy up all crops and store them in warehouses called subtreasuries until they could be sold.
False
In the years following passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act, the formation of trusts sharply declined.
False
Poll taxes violated the Fifteenth Amendment.
False
In 1900 the United States officially adopted a gold-based currency when Congress passed the
Gold standard act
In 1892 the People's Party promised if elected to implement a
Graduated Income Tax
gave whites a special break by allowing any man to vote if he had an ancestor on the voting rolls in 1867
Grandfather clause
From 1877 to 1896, voting patterns in the United States gave the Democrats an edge in the
House of representatives
In response to the ruling in Wabash v. Illinois, Congress created the
Interstate commerce Commision
In 1884 who was the first elected Democratic president since 1856?
James G. Blaine
A bill that cut tobacco taxes and tariff rates on raw sugar but raised rates on other goods, such as textiles, to discourage people from buying those imports was the
McKinley tariff
Republicans of the late 1800s were viewed as
Party of reform
when government jobs go to supporters of the winning party in an election
Patronage
Members of the Kansas Alliance formed the People's Party, also known as the
Populist party
The Mugwumps were
Republican reformers who supported Cleveland for president
separation of the races
Segregation
declared illegal any, "combination in the form of trust . . . or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States"
Sherman Antitrust Act
Between 1890 and 1899, there was an average of 187 lynchings each year carried out by mobs in the
South
The Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation by overturning the
The civil rights act of 1875
During the late 1880s, members of what organization traveled across the South and West speaking to farmers and organizing local chapters?
The farmers alliance
Not long after Grover Cleveland's inauguration in 1893, the nation plunged into the worst economic crisis it had ever experienced.
True
Jim Crow laws enforced segregation.
True
The Mugwumps expected newly elected Grover Cleveland to multiply the number of federal jobs covered under the merit system.
True
With the Pendleton Act, the federal government had begun a shift away from the spoils system.
True
The McKinley Tariff resulted in
a national budget deficit
The Populists hoped to beat the Democrats in the South by
appealing to poor whites and poor blacks
In 1876 and 1888, presidential candidates won the popular vote
but still lost the election
In a newspaper article, Ida Wells reported that three African American grocers in Memphis had been lynched because they had
competed successfully with white grocers
The goldbugs believed the American currency should be based only on gold, while silverites believed coining silver in unlimited quantities would solve the nation's
economic crisis
Unlike in the North, segregation in the South was
enforced by law
When Rutherford B. Hayes entered the White House in 1877 and attacked the practice of patronage, New York's Senator Conkling labeled the president and other Republican reformers
halfbreed
partial refunds
hat the seller is offering you part of the purchase price back, and you can keep th eitem
law that reformed civil service
is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.
Passed in several western states, Granger laws
limited railroad rates
renegade reformers who thought of themselves as moral leaders, more concerned with helping the nation than a political party
mugwumps
The Supreme Court case Wabash v. Illinois established the principle that
only the federal government can regulate interstate commerce
Mississippi took the first step to prohibit African Americans from voting when it required that all citizens registering to vote pay a
poll tax
Many farmers joined the Independent National Party because the party wanted the government to
print more greenbacks
To win back the poor white vote, Democratic leaders in the South began appealing to
racism
The Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court decision
separate but equal
The Republicans and their candidate, Benjamin Harrison, received large contributions for the 1888 campaign from industrialists who benefited from
tariff protection
The Sherman Antitrust Act was not very effective initially because
the courts were responsible for enforcement
The Democratic party of the late 1800s was viewed as
the party of personal liberty