Chapters 23-27 Review Flashcards
Who is the Republican candidate for president in the 1868 election?
Ulysses Grant
(Definition) A symbol of the Gilded Age corruption, “Boss” Tweed and his deputies ran the NYC Democratic Party in the 1860s and swindled $200 million from the city through bribery, graft, and vote-buying.
Tweed Ring
(Definition) (1872) A construction company was formed by owners of the Union Pacific railroad for the purpose of receiving government contracts to build the railroad at highly inflated prices and profits.
Credit Mobilier Scandal
(Definition) a worldwide depression that began in the US when one of the nation’s largest banks abruptly declared bankruptcy, leading to the collapse of thousands of banks and businesses.
Panic of 1873
What Act pledged the government to the further withdrawal of greenbacks from circulation and to the redemption of all paper currency in gold at face value?
Resumption Act of 1875
(Definition) A term given to the period 1865-1896 by Mark Twain, indicating both the fabulous wealth and widespread corruption of the era.
Gilded Age
(Definition) A system, prevalent during the gilded age, in which political parties granted jobs and favors to party regulars who delivered votes on Election Day.
Patronage
(Definition) the agreement that finally resolved the 1876 election and officially ended reconstruction. In exchange for the Republican candidate winning the election, Hayes agreed to withdraw the last of the troops from the confederate states.
Compromise of 1877
(Definition) The last piece of federal civil rights legislation until the 1950s, the law promised blacks equal access to public accommodations and banned racism in jury selection, but it provided no means of enforcement and was therefore ineffective.
Civil Rights Act of 1875.
(Definition) an agricultural system that emerged after the Civil War in which black and white farmers rented land and residences from a plantation owner in exchange for giving him a certain “share” of each years’ crop.
Sharecropping
(Definition) system of racial segregation in the American south from the end of reconstruction until then mid twentieth century. Based on the concept of “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites, this system sought to prevent racial mixing in public.
Jim Crow
What Supreme Court case confirmed that “separate but equal” was constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment?
Please V. Ferguson
(Definition) Federal legislation that prohibited most further Chinese immigration to the US.
Chinese Exclusion Act
(Definition) Congressional legislation that established the Civil Service Commission, which granted federal government jobs on the basis of examinations instead of political patronage, thus reining in the spoils system.
Pendleton Act
Who was the first Democrat to take office since Buchanan?
Grover Cleveland
