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Grant . . . had no right to exist. He should have been extinct for ages That, two thousand years after Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, a man like Grant should be called and should actually and truly be the highest product of the most advanced evolution, made evolution ludicrous the progress of evolution, from president President Washington to President Grant, was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin Grant should have lived in a cave and worn skins

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Henry Adams

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Who was the most popular northern to emerge from the war?

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General Grant

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Who nominated Grant for the presidency in 1868?

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The Republicans

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What did the Grant-supporting Republicans call for?

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For the continued reconstruction in the South

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What was Grant’s iconic campaign slogan?

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“Let us have peace”

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What did expectant delegates denounce in the nominating convention?

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Military reconstruction

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What did wealthy eastern delegates demand for?

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Federal war bonds be redeemed in gold

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What is the “Ohio idea” poorer delegates answered with?

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Redemption in greenbacks (emergency paper currency)

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What did Debt-burden democrats hope for?

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To keep more money in circulation and keep interest rates over

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Who the former nominee for governor of New York during the 1860s?

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Horatio Seymour

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How did Republicans whip up enthusiasm for Grant?

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By “waving the bloody shirt” (opposed politicians who made calls to avenge the soldiers that died during the Civil War)

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What “powerful” republican slogan was aimed at Union army veterans?

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“Vote as you shot”

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Grant won _______, but lost the ________

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electoral votes, popular vote

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Post-war the atmosphere was left..

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with corruption in the air

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Who were the notorious millionaire partners in the financial world?

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Jay Gould and Jim Fisk

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What was the preparatory work of the scheme Gould and Fisk did?

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bid the price of gold skyward to profit later from it’s heighten value

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What happened on “Black Friday”?

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The treasury was compelled to release gold after Grant kept reassuring him, the price of gold plunged and scores of many people were driven to the wall

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What was the infamous “Tweed Ring”?

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In New York, displayed the lack of ethics of that time

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Who was Burly “Boss” Tweed?

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He employed bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections to milk the metropolis of $200 million

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What happened to those who spoke out against Tweed?

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People would be silenced and the protester’s tax assessment would be raised

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Who secured evidence against Tweed and published it despite being offered $5 million not to?

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The New York Times

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Who gained fame which later paved the path to his presidential nomination?

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Attorney Samuel J. Tilden

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What was Grant’s first scandal?

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Credit Mobilier Scandal

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What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal?

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Union Pacific railroad insiders had formed a construction company and hired themselves as inflated prices to build the railroad line and a newspaper revealed that congressmen and the Vice president had accepted payments

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What was the sprawling Whiskey ring?

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The ring had robbed the treasury of millions in excise-tax revenues

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Which of Grant’s closet men was apart of the Whiskey ring?

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His private secretary

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Why is Grant’s quote, “Let no guilty man escape” contrary?

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He ends up taking off the thief after his private secretary appeared

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Why was Secretary of War William belknap forced to resign?

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He accepted bribes from suppliers to Native reservations

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Why did citizens band together to form the liberal republican party?

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Many of Grant’s worse scandals were revealed to the public and many were disgusted

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What was the slogan of the liberal republican party?

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“Turn the Rascals Out”

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What did the liberal republican party urge for?

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The purification of the Washington and an end to military reconstruction

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How did the liberal republican party mess up their chance of reaching their goals?

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By nominating the brillant, but erratic Horace Greeley

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Who foolishly proceeded to support Horace Greeley despite him not having good view of them before?

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Democrats

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Who hated and supported Grant?

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Democrats hated him, Republicans loved him

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What did the Republican Congress pass?

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The Amnesty Act

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What was the Amnesty Act?

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Removed all but around five hundred former confederate leaders

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What else did Congress remove?

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Reduced high civil war tariffs and purify the Grant Administration

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What was the panic of 1873?

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An economic depression due to the stock market crashing in Europe

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Who was hit the most during the panic of 1873?

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Some companies had made unsecured loans to several companies that went under and many Black Americans lost their savings

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Why did debtors experience the worse punishment?

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During the war millions of the greenbacks had been issued, but the price had lowered leading to inflation

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What was the Resumption Act of 1875?

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Pledged the government to the further withdrawal of greenbacks from circulation & redemption of all paper currency in gold at face value

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What metal did debtors turn to?

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Silver

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What party hard money’s policy help elect a Democratic House of Representatives?

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Republican

44
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Which party spawned from the Republicans?

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Greenback Labor party

45
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What was the Glided Age?

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Given by Mark Twain meaning that it was covered of thin gold

46
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Republicans traced their lineage to..

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Puritanism

47
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How was patronage done?

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Jobs were given in-exchange for votes

48
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Who led the Stalwart faction?

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Roscoe, U.S senator of New York

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What were the conklingites called?

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Half-breeds

50
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Who was the champion of conklingites?

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James G. Blaine of Maine

51
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Who did the Republicans turn to for a candidate?

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Rutherford B. Hayes (former governor of Ohio)

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Who did the Democrats support?

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Samuel. J Tilden

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What was the compromise of 1877?

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An unwritten deal where Hayes awarded the White House but had to remove federal troops from the South

54
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Who quietly abandoned it’s commitment to racial equality?

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Hayes-Tilden Deal

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What is the Civil Rights of 1875?

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The act supposed guaranteed equal accommodations in public places and prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection

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It’s most noteworthy peculiarty has been its universality; affecting nations that have been involved in war as well as those which have maintained peace; those which have a stable currency, based on gold, and those who have an unstable currency, based on promises which have not been kept; those which live under systems of free exchange commodities, and those whose exchanges are more or less restricted. It has been a calamity exceedingly heavy to be borne, alike by the inhabitants of sterile Newfoundland and labrador, and of the sunny, fruitful sugar-islands of the East and West Indies

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David. A Wells described the global dimensions of the depression in the United States

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When reconstruction ended, what happened to Black Americans?

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White democrats took power in the south

58
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If Black Americans tried to assert their rights, what would be the consequences?

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They would face unemployment, eviction, and physical harm

59
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What is sharecropping?

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Giving a part of each crop as rent

60
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What is the crop-lien system?

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Storekeepers would extend credit to small farmers for food and supplies and in return take a lien on their harvestsl

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What are Jim Crow Laws?

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Codes of segregation between Blacks and Whites

62
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Railroad workers faced _____ while profits _____

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hardships, rose

63
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What was the Pullman strike?

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Presidents of the four largest railroads cut a % of worker’s wages, workers did a strike

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