Chapter 11 History Notes Quiz Q&A
Booker T Washington believed that the best way for the blacks to improve their status in the U.S was to
Accept segregation and disfranchisement while at the same time working hard and proving their economic value to society
which person would mostly likely have been inclined t vote for Republican in the Gilded Age
An African American
Jim Crow
Character popularized by slavery- era stage performer used in reference to segregation laws in the south
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Established the doctrine of "separate but equal"
In 1844 who was the first elected Democratic President since 1856
Grover Cleveland
When Rutherford B. Hayes entered the White House in 1877 and attacked the practice of patronage York's Senator Conkling labeled the president and other Republican reformers
Halfbreeds
From 1877 to 1896, voting patterns in the United States gave the Democrats an edge in the
House of Representatives
A bill that cut tobacco taxes and tariff rates on raw sugar but raised rates on other goods such as textiles to discourage people form buying those imports was the
McKinley Tariff
Members of the Kansas Alliance formed the People's Party, also known as the
Populists
The McKinley Tariff resulted in
a national budget deficit
Late nineteenth century politics was characterized by
a two party stalemate
James A Garfield
assassinated a few month into his presidency
In 1876 and 1888, presidential candidates won the popular vote
but still lost the election
Poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses were used in the south after 1890 to
deny the right to vote to African Americans
From 1876-1897 the presidents and the senate were
dominated by the republican party
The gold bugs believed the American currency should be based only on gold, white silveites believed coining silver in unlimited quantities would solve the nations
economic crisis
The Pendlton Act requiring individuals to pass civil service examinations to obtain government jobs enacted to
eliminate patronage and corruption in government hiring
Booker T Washington
expressed the ideas that became know as the Atlanta Compromise
in the 1870s the Granger and Populist movements were organized to promote the interests of
farmers
Populists in the 1892 elections called for all of the following
federal ownership of railroads a graduated income tax unlimited coinage of silver THEY DID NOT- unrestricted immigration
Which of following are all grievances of farmers at this time
high debt, inequitable freight rates, and inadequate currency
Ida Wells
launched a fearless crusade against lynching
New technology helped farmers produce more crops, which tended to
lower prices
Grange
nations first farm organization
Mississippi took the first step to prohibit African Americans from voting when it required that all citizens registering to vote pay a
poll tax
W.E.B. DuBois differed with Booker T Washington's approach to fighting discrimination and segregation because DuBois believed above all else, African Americans should focus on
protecting the right to vote
To win back the poor white vote, democratic leaders in the South began appealing to
racism
Mugwumps
renegade reformers who thought of themselves as moral leaders more concerned with helping the nation than a political party
In its decision in the case of Plessy vs Ferguson the Supreme Court held that
separate but equal facilities for different races were constitutional
segregation
separation of the races
To get inflation under control after the Civil War, the federal government did all of the following
stop making silver into coins start paying off it bonds stop printing greenbacks THEY DID NOT- start exchanging greenbacks for gold coins
the Sherman Antitrust Act was not very effective initially because
the courts were responsible for enforcement
Exodusters
thousands of African American who migrated from the rural South to Kansas
The supreme Court decision in Plessy vs. Fergusion affected African Americans by
upholding racial segregation
Patronage
when government jobs go to supporters of the winning party in an election
