democrats

Question 1

why was johnson disliked?

Answer 1

• too soft, gave 13,000 pardons to southerners
• let new south state governments retract black rights
• gave all states black code
• vetoed all slavery laws like freedmen bureau

Question 2

how did johnson’s presidency end?

Answer 2

• congress take control and put military in the south

- johnson almost impeached for trying to sack secretary of war

Question 3

who were the redeemers?

Answer 3

• part if southern democrats
• against reconstruction and wanted southern state power back
  (support from white politicians)

Question 4

what was cleveland’s election like?

Answer 4

• muddy because his republican opponent was hated

- supported by mugwumps

Question 5

what were clevelands policies in his first presidency?

Answer 5

still spoils system but would fire a good republicans

• reduce federal employees because overcrowding
• most jobs decided by merit

Question 6

when did cleveland get his 2nd presidency?

Answer 6

1892

Question 7

which minorities did cleveland treat badly?

Answer 7

• natives - massacred and 20,000 children taken

- exploit chinese to build rails then exclude them

Question 8

why did cleveland pass the omnibus endictment act in 1894?

Answer 8

pullman strike led by labour groups that paralysed the nation

Question 9

did cleveland have a laissez faire attitude?

Answer 9

yes

Question 10

why did JP morgan give cleveland 62 million?

Answer 10

to maintain gold reserve (criticised heavily)

Question 11

why did clevaldn pass the silver purchase act?

Answer 11

to commit america to silver standard (led to rise of populism)

Question 12

how were the democrats weakened in the 1892 election?

Answer 12

• weaver stood for populists an got 1 million votes

- from people who would’ve voted democrat

Question 13

how did bryan split the democrats in the 1896 election?

Answer 13

• had populist ideas like silver coinage
• McKinley won with 3 million from hanna
• north workers scared of silver standard like their bosses

Question 14

ho did the democrats cause progressivism?

Answer 14

• cleveland’s support of big business and repeal of silver
• dominant in the south and conservatives
• too divided to win election

Question 15

why did wilson win the 1912 election?

Answer 15

• roosevelt and taft went against each other with the bull moose party
• this split the republicans and allowed wilson to win

Question 16

what did wilson do?

Answer 16

• federal reservation act
• clayton anti trust
• underwood tariff
• workmens compensation
• child labour act
• damson act
• racist and biased towards south
• want back on anti lynching laws

Question 17

what did wilson get in the 18th and 19th amendments?

Answer 17

• temperance

- women vote

Question 18

why did wilson remain neutral in the war?

Answer 18

• public opinion
• wilsonisanism (though himself a peace keeper, declaration of neutrality 14, support moves that end confluict, previous peacekeeping with venezuela
• america made up of immigrants so har to take sides

Question 19

how did wilson help with the revival of the KKK?

Answer 19

• “birth of a nation” taken from wilsons 1902 book

- wilson made it the first film to be shown in the white house so people agreed with it

Question 20

why did blacks migrate north?

Answer 20

• jim crow laws in the south were very strict

Question 21

what did wilson create after the war?

Answer 21

• 14 points to create the league of nations

- got nobel peace prize in 1919

Question 22

why didn’t wilson let america join the league of nations?

Answer 22

• wouldn’t compromise and jining would cause problems with trade