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APUSH Quiz Gilded Age Flashcards

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1
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What does waving the bloody shirt mean?

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Using Civil War memories to gain support for presidents

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Who did the Republicans nominate by waving the bloody shirt?

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Ulysesses S Grant who had no political experience

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Why were the Democrats disorganized?

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only denounce military Reconstruction and couldnt agree on anything else

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Who won the election of 1868?

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Grant because they waved the bloody shirt and used his popularitty to elect him

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Who was the democrat candidate for the election of 1868?

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Horatio Seymour

didnt accept a redemptin of greenbacks for maxium value platform and thus doomed his party

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6
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What happened during the era of good stealings?

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population mushroomed due to incoming immigration

politics became very corrupt

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How was politics becoming corrupt?

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Railroad promoters cheated gullible customer
Stock market investors were a cancer in the public eye
Too many judges nd legislators put their power up for hire

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8
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What were the two notorious millionaires

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Jim Fisk

Jay Gould

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What was Jim Fisk and Jay Gould plan?

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1869
they wanted to corner the gold market that would only work if the treasury stopped selling gold
They worked through President Grant and his brother in law
their plan failed when the treasurey sold gold

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10
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What was the Tweed Ring?

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employed bribery, graft, and fake elections to cheat the city out of 200 million $

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What was another name for Tweed Ring?

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Tammany Hall

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12
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Who led Tweed Ring?

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William Tweed

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13
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How was Tweed caught?

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New York Times secured evidence on his misdeeds, and even though he was defended by Tilden, he was imprisioned

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Who was a political crtoonist who constantly drew against Tammany’s corruption?

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Thomas Nast

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15
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What did Grant fail to see?

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Corruption
his friends wanted offices
cabinet was corrupt (except secretary of state Henry Fish)
and his in laws (Dents) were terrible

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16
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What was the name of the railroad company that paid itself huge sums of money for small construction?

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Credit Mobilier

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17
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What happened to the Credit Mobilier?

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NY newspaper company busted it
2 members of Congress were censored (the company gave some stock to the congressmen)
VP was shown to have taken 20 shares of stock

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18
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In 1875, who robbed the treasury of millions of dollar?

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Wiskey Ring

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When Grant’s own private secretary was shown to be one of the criminals, what statement did Grant retract?

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Let no guilty man escape

20
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Who was shown to have pocketed some $24,000 by selling junk to indians?

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Secretary of War William Belknap

21
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By 1872, a power wave of what was building?

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disgust at Grant’s administration building despite the worst of scandels not being revealed yet

22
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What did reformers organize during the wave of disgust townrds Grant’s admnistraion building?

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Liberal Republican Party

Nominated Horace Greeley

23
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Who also supported Greeley even though he had blasted him in his newspaper (the NY Tribune)?

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Democratic

24
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How did Greeley please the Democrats?

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he called for a clasping of hands between the north and the south and an end to reconstruction

25
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What was Greeley called?

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atheist
commuist
vegitarian
signer of Jefferson’s Davis Bill bond (that was true)

26
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What was grant called?

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ignormanus

drunkard
swindler

27
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Who won the electoral and popular vote between Greeley and Grant?

A

Grant

28
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What did the republican congress pass in 1872 that removed political disabilities from all by some 500 former Confederate leaders?

A

amnesty act

29
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What caused the Panic of 1873?

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too many railroads and factories being formed than existing markets could bear and the over loaning by banks to those projcts

30
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What causes were the same for the Panic of 1873 as the other recessions every 20 years?

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Overspecualtion

Too easy credit

31
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What event started the Panic of 1873?

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failure of NY banking firm Jay Cooke and Company, which was headed by the rich Jay Cooke, a financier of the Civil War

32
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During the panic, why did people want greenbcks to be printed again?

A

cheap money supporters

create inflation

33
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What was the Resumption Act of 1875?

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supporters of hard money (gold and silver) persuaded grant to veto a bill that would print more paper money and it pledged the government to further withdraw greenbacks and made all further redemption of paper money in gold at face value starting in 1879

34
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What did grant refuse to do?

A

coin more silver dollars which had been stopped in 1873

Debators cried that silver was undervalued (called for inflation)

35
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What shot the price of silver down?

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new silver discoveries in the later 1870s

36
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What was Grant’s name fused to?

A

money, not government

37
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As greenbacks regained value, Did many greenback holders exchange their more convient bills for gold when Redemption day came in 1879?

A

No, only few

38
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What Act instructed the Treasury to buy and coin between 2-4 million $ worth of silver bulion each month?

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Bland Allison Act 1878

39
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What was the effect of Bland Allision Act?

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the minimum was actually coined

was minimal on creating cheap money

40
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What helped spawn the Greenback Lablr Party in 1878?

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The republican hard money policy

election of a democratic house of representatives in 1874

41
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Who coined the term Gilded Age?

A

Mark Twain

42
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What does the Gilded Age mean?

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hinted that times looked good, yet if one scratched a bit below the surfface, there were problems. Times were filled with corruption ad presidental squeakers, and even though democrats and republicans had similar ideas on economic issues, there were fundimental issues

43
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What were the Republicans more like?

A

traced lineage to puritans

had strong votes in the north and west and Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)

44
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What is the Grand Army of the Republic?

A

organization made up of former union vets

45
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What were the Democrats more like?

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Lutherans and Roman Catholics

strong support of south

46
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In the 1870s and 1880s, Republican infighting was led by which two rivals who bickered and deadlocked their party?

A 
Roscoe Conkling (stalwarts)
James Blaine (Half Breeds)

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