Chapter 23

Question 1

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 1

former Union General who now ran for President from the Republican Party by waving the bloody shirt and reliving his war victories. The new black voters put Grant in the Whitehouse.
Credit mobilier-scandal during Grant’s Presidency —a railroad construction company that over inflated prices to profit, they also bribed Congressman and the Vice President.
Whiskey ring- group of St. Louis whiskey distillers that filed false tax returns and kept the extra money. Grant’s private secretary profited from this scheme, again making Grant look like an inadequate President

Question 2

Jim Fisk, Jay Gould

Answer 2

two wall street businessmen who schemed to steal millions of dollars.

Question 3

Thomas Nast

Answer 3

political cartoonist who took down boss tweed with his drawings

Question 4

Horace Greeley

Answer 4

newspaper editor who ran for President against Grant and lost.

Question 5

James A. Garfield

Answer 5

Halfbreed who wanted to change the spoils system and was assassinated by an office seeker

Question 6

Chester A. Arthur

Answer 6

Stalwart of supporter of the spoils system who was Garfield’s Vice President and succeeded him when he was assassinated

Question 7

Charles Guiteau

Answer 7

office seeker who assassinated Garfield. He tried the insanity plea, but was found guilt anyway

Question 8

Soft money

Answer 8

paper money liked by farmers because it created inflation and helped them pay off debt

Question 9

Hard money

Answer 9

actual gold or silver that great in value

Question 10

Gilded Age

Answer 10

term coined by Mark Twain that society was covered in a thin layer or gold because it looked great, but was actually rotten to the core

Question 11

Spoils system

Answer 11

supporters of a winning political party are rewarded with government jobs.

Question 12

Grandfather clause

Answer 12

way to prevent African Americans from voting. If you had a grandfather that voted prior to reconstruction you could automatically vote

Question 13

Boss Tweed

Answer 13

corrupt party boss of Tammany Hall who stole over $200 million. Eventually ousted by Thomas Nast

Question 14

Stalwart

Answer 14

supporters of the spoils system

Question 15

Halfbreed

Answer 15

wanted to change the spoils system and make it based on ability

Question 16

Compromise of 1877

Answer 16

Since no candidate had a majority of electoral votes the House of Representatives selected Hayes as President as long as he ending Reconstruction in the South by withdrawing Federal Troops

Question 17

Pendleton act

Answer 17

curbed the spoils system for about 10% of government employees who now had to take an exam in order to get a government job

Question 18

Mugwumps

Answer 18

Republicans that disliked James Blaine so much they switched parties and became Democrats and supported Grover Cleveland

Question 19

Plessy V Ferguson

Answer 19

Supreme Court case that nationally legalized segregation and established Separate, but equal—meaning separate facilities were legal is they were equal which they never were

Question 20

Jim Crow

Answer 20

series of laws that promoted segregation of restrooms, drinking fountains, train cars, and many more

Question 21

Chinese exclusion act

Answer 21

Ban Chinese immigration to the U.S. and prevented those already here from becoming citizens