Chapter 16 review Coach Knowles

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​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

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​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


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