APUSH Chapter 23

The key tradeoff featured in the Compromise of 1877 was that

Republicans got the presidency in exchange for the final removal of federal troops from the South

Imperious New York senator and leader of the Stalwart faction of Republicans

Roscoe Conkling

Winner of the contested 1876 election who presided over the end of Reconstruction and a sharp economic downturn

Rutherford B. Hayes

New York prosecutor of Boss Tweed who later lost in the disputed presidential election of 1876

Samuel Tilden

Precious metal that soft money advocates demanded be coined again to compensate for the Crime of 73

Silver

Republican party faction led by Senator Roscoe Conkling that opposed all attempts at civil service reform

Stalwarts

The political system of the Gilded Age was generally characterized by

Strong party loyalties, high voter turnout, and few disagreements on national issues

The Credit Mobilier scandal involved

railroad corporation fraud and the subsequent bribery of congressmen to cover it up

Boss Tweeds widespread corruption was finally brought to a halt by

the journalistic exposes of the New York Times and cartoonist Thomas Nast

The Supreme Courts ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson upholding "separate but equal" public facilities in effect legalized

they system of unequal segregation between the races

Grants greatest failing in the scandals that plagued his administration was his

toleration of corruption and his loyalty to crooked friends

Enormously wealthy banker whose secret bailout of the federal government in 1895 aroused fierce public anger

J. P. Morgan

Charming but corrupt Half Breed Republican senator and presidential nominee in 1884

James G. Blaine

President whose assassination after only a few months in office spurred the passage of a civil service law

James Garfield

Term for the racial segregation laws imposed in the 1890s

Jim Crow

Bold and unprincipled financier whose plot to corner the U.S. gold market nearly succeeded in 1869

Jim Fisk

Short-lived third party of 1872 that attempted to curb Grant administration corruption

Liberal republican Party

Sky high Republican tariff of 1890 that caused widespred anger among farmers in the Midwest and the South

Mckinely Tariff

The primary goal for which all factions in both political parties contended during the Gilded Age was

Patronage

Insurgent political party that gained widespread support among farmers in the 1890s

Populists

Heavyweight New York political boss whose widespread fraud landed him in jail in 1871

Boss Tweed

Colorful, eccentric newspaper editor who carried the Liberal Republican and Democratic banners against Grant in 1872

Horace Greeley

Asian immigrant group that experienced discrimination on the West Coast

Chinese

System of choosing federal employees on the basis of merit rather than patronage introduced by the Pendleton Act of 1883

Civil Service Commission

The complex political agreement between Republicans and Democrats that resolved the bitterly disputed election of 1876

Compromise of 1877

Financiers Jim Fisk and Jay Gould involved the Grant administration in a corrupt scheme to...

Corner the Gold Market

Corrupt construction company whose bribes and payoffs to congressmen and others created a major Grant administration scandal

Credit Mobilier

Irish born leader of the anti Chinese movement in California

Denis Kearney

Mark Twain's sarcastic name for the post Civil War era, which emphasized its atmosphere of greed and corruption

Gilded age

Civil War Union veterns' organization that became a potent political bulwark of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century

Grand army of the republic

Notorious clause in southern voting laws that exempted from literacy tests and poll taxes anyone whose ancestors had voted in 1860, thereby excluding blacks

Grandfather Clause

Soft money third party that polled over a million votes and elected fourteen congresssmen in 1878 by advocating inflation

Greenback Labor Party

First Democratic president since the Cvil War; defender of laissez-faire economics and low tariffs

Grover Cleveland

Republican party faction led by Senator James G. Blaine that paid lip service to government reform while still battling for patronage and spoils

Half breeds

Radical Populist leader whose early success turned sour and who then became a vicious racist

Tom Watson

Great military leader whose presidency foundered in corruption and political ineptitude

Ulysses S. Grant

The symbol of the Republican political tactic of attacking Democrats with reminders of the Civil War

Waving the bloody shirt

Eloquent young Congressman from Nebraska who became the most prominent advocate of free silver in the early 1890s

William Jennings Bryan

The final result of the widespread anti-Chinese agitation in the West was

a congressional law to prohibit any further Chines immigration

Which of the following was not among the changes that affected African Americans in the South after troops were withdrawn in the compromise of 1877 a.The forced relocation of black farmers to the Kansas and Oklahoma dust bowl b.The imposition of literacy requirement and poll taxes to prevent black voting c.The development of the Tenant farming and share-cropping systems d.The introduction of legal systems of racial segregation e.The rise of mob lynching as a means of suppressing blacks who challenged the racial system

a. The forced relocation of black farmers the the Kansas and Oklahoma dust bowl

Grover Cleveland stirred a furious storm of protest when, in response to the extreme financial crisis of the 1890's he

borrowed $65 million from J.P. Morgan and other bankers in order to save the monetary gold standard

In its first years the Populist Party advocated, among other things

free sliver, a graduated income tax, and government ownership of the railroads, telegraph and telephone

The great railroad strike of 1877 revealed the

growing threat of class warfare in response to the economic depression of the mid-1870's

The depression of the 1870's led to increasing demands for

inflation of the money supply by issuing more paper or silver currency

President James Garfield was assassinated by a

mentally unstable disappointed office seeker