C23 - Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869-1896

Question 1

Jay Cooke

Answer 1

x

Question 2

Samuel Tilden

Answer 2

New York attorney who prosecuted Boss Tweed in 1871, for bribery and fraud. This prosecution gave him the fame that led to his later nomination as candidate for President.

Question 3

spoils system

Answer 3

x

Question 4

cheap money

Answer 4

x

Question 5

Half-Breed

Answer 5

x

Question 6

Mugwumps

Answer 6

x

Question 7

Liberal Republicans

Answer 7

Party formed by reform-minded people who were tired of the scandals and dishonest in the Grant administration. They wanted to “clean out” Washington by “turning the rascals out”. They nominated Horace Greeley to run for President.

Question 8

Resumption Act

Answer 8

x

Question 9

Jay Gould

Answer 9

Millionaire who paired with Jubilee Jim Fisk on an illegal scheme to drive up the price of Gold to benefit themselves.

Question 10

(Boss) Tweed Ring

Answer 10

Group in NY City led by Boss Tweed, involved in fraud and bribery. Tweed was convicted and died in jail.

Question 11

Thomas Nast

Answer 11

Cartoonist who drew a famous cartoon of the dishonest Boss Tweed.

Question 12

contraction

Answer 12

Monetary policy that caused deflation of the currency.

Question 13

Charles J. Guiteau

Answer 13

x

Question 14

James A. Garfield

Answer 14

x

Question 15

the “bloody shirt”

Answer 15

Name given to tactic used during the 1856 Presidential campaign: Republican Ulysses S. Grant vs. Democrat Horatio Seymour.

The Bloody shirt referred to using reminders of the bloody Civil War as a way to get votes for General Grant who was a war hero.

Question 16

resumption

Answer 16

x

Question 17

Horatio Seymour

Answer 17

Democrat candidate in the campaign of 1856. He lost.

Question 18

Jim Fisk

Answer 18

Partnered with Jay Gould to illegally drive up the price of Gold, which would make them rich and financially ruin others.

Question 19

Greenback Labor party

Answer 19

Started in 1875, supported by farmers who were being hurt by the US governments monetary policy (causing deflation), low farm prices and high railroad rates.

Peter Cooper was their candidate for President in 1876 election.

Question 20

“Ohio Idea”

Answer 20

Monetary policy idea related to redemption of war bonds. There was disagreement in the Democrat party about how to handle this redemption. Wealthier Democrats had different ideas than poor Dems about how to handle this.

the Ohio Idea came from midwestern Democrats who said war bonds should be redeemed in greenbacks.

Question 21

Credit Mobilier

Answer 21

Scandal that erupted in 1872 which fraudulently made some Union Pacific insiders rich by offering payments or bribes to public officials in Grant’s administration (including the Vice President of the US)

Question 22

Whiskey Ring

Answer 22

1874-1875. Scandal involving whiskey distillers’ stealing tax revenues.

Question 23

Compromise of 1877

Answer 23

x

Question 24

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 24

Former Civil War hero, was elected President because of his war hero status. He was not a good leader as President.

Many in his cabinet were dishonest.

Question 25

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 25

x

Question 26

Roscoe Conkling

Answer 26

x

Question 27

Gilded Age

Answer 27

Sarcastic name given to the 3 decades after the Civil War, by Mark Twain.

Question 28

Horace Greeley

Answer 28

Nominee for President by the Liberal Republican party.

He was a brilliant man, but not at all qualified to be President.

Question 29

Winfield S. Hancock

Answer 29

x

Question 30

James G. Blaine

Answer 30

x

Question 31

Bland-Allison Act

Answer 31

x

Question 32

“Crime of 73”

Answer 32

x

Question 33

Chester A. Arthur

Answer 33

x

Question 34

Benjamin Harrison

Answer 34

x

Question 35

Stalwart

Answer 35

x

Question 36

hard/sound money

Answer 36

x

Question 37

Grover Cleveland

Answer 37

x

Question 38

Pendleton Act

Answer 38

x

Question 39

GAR

Answer 39

x

Question 40

Richard P. Bland

Answer 40

x

Question 41

Jim Crow laws

Answer 41

x