APUSH 23

Stalwart

Republican party faction led by Senator Roscoe CONKLING that opposed all attempts at CIVIL SERVICE

Half Breeds

Republican party faction led by james Blaine that gave lukewarm support to the civil service idea while still battling PATRONAGE and SPOILS.

GreenBack Labor Party

SOFT MONEY third party that polled over a million votes and elected 14 congressmen in 1873 by advocating inflation

Rum, Romanism, rebellion

THe nasty RRR label attached to the DEMOCRATIC party by a REPUBLICAN speaker in the election of 1884

Credit mobilier

corrupt construction company who BRIBES and PAYOFFS to congressmen and others created major Grant administration scandal

Mudwumps

republican clean government advocates who supported democrats CLEVELAND in 1884 because of the corruption of the republican nominee BLAINE

Liberal Republican

short lived third party of 1872 that attempted to curb Grant administration CORRUPTION

Mckinely Tariff

sky high republican tariff that caused widespread anger among farmers in the MIDWEST and the SOUTH

civil service reform

system of choosing federal employees on the basis of MERIT rather than PATRONAGE, introduced by the PENDLETON ACT

Compromise of 1877

the complex political agreement between REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS that resolved the bitterly disputed election of 1876

Grand army of the republic

Civil war veterans organization that became a potent political bulwark of the REPUBLICAN party in the late 19th century

the bloody shirt

The symbol of the REPUBLICAN political tactic of attacking DEMOCRATS with reminders of the civil war

Chinese

asian immigrant groups that experienced DISCRIMINATION on the west coast.

populists

insurgent political party that gained widespread support among FARMERS in the 1890s

Gilded Age

mark twains sarcastic name of the post civil war era. Which emphasized its atmosphere of GREED and CORRUPTION

Grandfather clause

notorious calsue in southern voting laws that exempted from LITERACY tests and POLL TAXES anyone whose ancestors had voted in the 1860, thereby excluding blacks.

Silver

precious metal that "SOFT METAl" advocates demanded to be coined again after the Crime of 73