APUSH Gilded Age Part 2

Question 1

Who almost ran for a third term before the House derailed that proposal?

Answer 1

Grant

Question 2

Who did the Republicans run in the election of 1876?

Answer 2

Rutherford Hayes

Great Unknown because no one knew much about him

Question 3

Who did the democrats run in the election of 1876?

Answer 3

Samuel Tilden

Question 4

How was the election really close in 1876?

Answer 4

Tilden got 184 out of 185 electoral votes needed

votes for LO SC FL and parts of oregon were unsure and disputed

Question 5

How did they handle the disputed states?

Answer 5

they sent in two sets of returns one for D/R

Question 6

What was the Electoral Count Act?

Answer 6

passed in 1877
set up an electoral commission that consisted of 15 men selected from the Senate the House and Supreme court
The 15 man was supposed to be independent David Davis but he resigned last minute

Question 7

How did the Senate and House settle the dispute between Hayes and Tilden?

Answer 7

Febuary 1877
Hayes became president
Compromise of 1877

Question 8

What was the compromise of 1877?

Answer 8

North: Hayes would become president if he agreed to remove troops from the remaining two southern states where Union troops remained (LO and SC) and make a bill that would subsidize the Texas and Pacific rail line
South: military rule and reconstruction ended

Question 9

What happened to blacks when Compromise of 1877 came into effect?

Answer 9

abonded blacks by withdrawing troops
Last atttempt to protect blacks was the Civil RIghts Act of 1875 which was declared unconstiutional by the Supreme court in the 1883 Civil Rights cases

Question 10

As Reconstruction ended and the military returned northward, who asserted their power?

Answer 10

whites

Question 11

How did whites assert their power?

Answer 11

Literacy requirements for voting began, voting registration laws emerged, poll taxes began (aimed towards blacks)
Most blacks became sharecroppers (providing nothing but labor) or tenant farmers (if they could provide their own tools)

Question 12

In 1896, the Supreme court ruled what from the Plessy v Ferguson case?

Answer 12

separate but equal faclities were constitutionl

Question 13

What was legalized by the Plessy v Fergson case?

Answer 13

Jim Crow segregation

Question 14

When was the Plessy v Ferguson case?

Answer 14

1896

Question 15

What did the presidents of the nations four largest railroad do?

Answer 15

In 1877, they cut wages by 10%

Question 16

What was the impact of presidents of the nations four largest railroads cutting 10% wages?

Answer 16

Workers struck back
stopped working
when Hayes sent troops to stop this, violence errupted and more than 100 people died in the several weeks of chaos

Question 17

What did the failure of the railroad strike show?

Answer 17

weakness in hte labor movements, but this was partly caused by friciton between races, especially irish and chinesse

Question 18

In San Fransisco, who incited his followers to terrorize the Chinese?

Answer 18

Irish born Denis Kearney

Question 19

Congress passed a bill severly resistricting the influx of what?

Answer 19

Chinese immigrants
most of whom were male who had come to Cali to work on railroad
Hayes vetoed the bill saying it violated the existing treaty with China

Question 20

When did Congress passed a bill severly resistricting the influx of Chinese immigrants?

Answer 20

1879

Question 21

After Hayes left office, what was passed?

Answer 21

Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882

Question 22

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Answer 22

barred any chinese from entering the US - first law limiting immigration

Question 23

In 1880, who did the Repulicans nominate for the election?

Answer 23

James Garfield

rank of a major general in the Civil War

Question 24

Who was Garfield’s running mate?

Answer 24

Chester Arther from NY

he was a stalwart

Question 25

whats a stalwart?

Answer 25

supporter of Roscoe Conkiling

Question 26

Who did the Democrats choose as their canidate for the 1880 election?

Answer 26

Winfield Hancock
civil war general who appealed to the south due to his fair treatment during the reconstruction
vetran who was wounded in Gettysburg so appealed to vets

Question 27

What did the 1880 election avoid?

Answer 27

touchy subjects

Question 28

Who squeaked by in the popular vote in 1880?

Answer 28

Garfield (electoral vote 214: 155)

Question 29

Garfield was what kind of person?

Answer 29

good

hated to hurt people feeling and say no

Question 30

Who did Garfield name to the position of Secretary of state and what acts did he make?

Answer 30

James Blaine

anti Stalwart acts

Question 31

How was Garfield Murdered?

Answer 31

Septemeber 19, 1881
shot in the head by Charles Guiteau who used the early verson of insanity plea to avoid conviction
he was hanged anyway

Question 32

How did Charles Arthur shock many people?

Answer 32

didnt seem to be a good fit for preident
gave cold sholder to stalwarts, chief supporters, and called for reform, a call heeded by the republican party as it showed enthusiasm for the reform

Question 33

What was the Pendleton Act?

Answer 33

1883
Magna Charta of civil service reform (awarding of governent jobs based on ability, not just because a buddy awarded the job), prohibited financial assessments on jobholders including lowly scrubwomen, and established a merit system of making appointments to office on the basis of aptitude rather than pull

Question 34

What did the Pendleton Act also do?

Answer 34

set up civil service commision charged with administering open competitive service and offices not classified by the president remained the fought over in politics

Question 35

How many people did Arthur get to join the pendleton act?

Answer 35

by 1884, he had classified nearly 10% of all federal offices or nearly 14,000 of them

Question 36

What did the pendleton act partially divide?

Answer 36

Politics from patronage but drove politicians into “marriages of convenience” with buisness leaders

Question 37

Who was the republican canidate for the 1884 election?

Answer 37

James Blaine

Question 38

What are the republicans reformers that switched to democratic party because they did not like Blaine?

Answer 38

mugwumps

Question 39

Who did the democrats chose for the 1884 election?

Answer 39

Grover Cleveland

but it was revealed he may be the father of an illegitimate child

Question 40

The campain of 1884 was filled with the lowest _ in history.

Answer 40

mudslinging

Question 41

What was the contest depended on in 1884?

Answer 41

It depended on how Ny chose
one foolish republican insulted teh race, faith, and patriotism of NY heavy Irish population
NY voted for Cleveland