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