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Only Democratic president of the Gilded Age

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Grover Cleveland

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Republican presidential candidate in 1880; his assassination helped bring about civil service reform

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James Garfield

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President of the American Railway Union and led the Pullman Strike

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Eugene Debs

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First group were organized by Industry rather than craft

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Knights of Labor

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Lost the popular vote, but won the election

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Harrison

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Wanted the government to solve unemployment with a public works program

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Jacob Coxey

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Democratic Presidential candidate in 1880

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Winfield Scott Hancock

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Leader if the WCTU

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Frances Willard

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Cleveland used federal troops to break up the strike to get the mail running

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Pullman Strike

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Influential leader of the Knights of Labor

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Terrance Powderly

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Groups that felt resentment toward new immigrants

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Nativist

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Passed to dissolve large trusts and prevent monopolies

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Labor group dominated by old immigration skilled workers; represented the majority of the American workforce

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American Federation of Labor

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Election known for personal attacks on candidates

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Election of 1884

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Civil service reform act - result of the assassination of Garfield

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Pendleton Act

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Vetoed many veterans’ pension bills

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Grover Cleveland

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Group that attempted to ban alcohol

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WCTU

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Group that wanted an increase in the amount of money in circulation

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Greenbacks

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American Federation of Labor president

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Samuel Gompers

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“Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion” hurt his campaign; leader of the Half-Breeds

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James Blaine

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Organize by Debs - first time the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was used against labor unions

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Pullman Strike

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Assassinated Garfield

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Charles Guiteau

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Corrupt official in charge of the New York Custom’s House and a Stalwart Lt. of Conking, president after Garfield’s assassination

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Chester Arthur

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Hurt irrevocably by the Haymarket Square Riot; was open to many different people- women, unskilled workers, and blacks; initially preferred to use boycotts over strike, but later switched to them

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Knights of Labor

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Phrase WJ Bryan's speech at the Democratic Convention that became the theme of his 1896 Presidential campaign
Cross of Gold
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Raised tariff rates almost 50%
McKinley Tariff
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Supported tariff reform, which did not help him regain the presidency in 1888
Grover Cleveland
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Big business found ways to use it to break up unions and strikes saying that they were prohibiting competition
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Gained the Democratic nomination in 1896 because of his support for the unlimited coinage of silver
William Jennings Bryan
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Originally formed by members of the Farmer's Alliance; called for an income tax, bank regulation, government ownership or railroads, and unlimited coinage of silver
Populist Party
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Ran the New York boss system/machine where the "bosses" determined patronage, candidates etc...
Boss Tweed
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The major issue of the 1896 election
Silver Coinage
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Pardoned the surviving anarchists convicted in the Haymarket Riot
John P. Altgeld
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Marched from across the country to Washington DC to protest the high unemployment caused by the Panic 1893
Coxey's Army
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Challenge that led to the Interstate Commerce Act - upheld by Supreme Court and limited the right of state to regulate interstate commerce
Wabash vs. Illinois
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New York Senator who was the leader of the Stalwarts of the Republican party
Roscoe Conkling
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Populist candidate in the election of 1892
James Weaver
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Democratic political machine of New York
Tammany Hall
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Republican group that supported some civil service reforms
Half-Breeds
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Democratic presidential candidate in 1896; cross of gold speech
William Jennings Bryan
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Republican presidential candidate in 1884
James Blaine
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President who wanted to lower the surplus by reducing the tariff
Grover Cleveland
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Outlawed the unfair pricing activities on the part of railroads; it was not strictly enforced
Interstate Commerce
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Directed McKinley's presidential campaign
Mark Hanna
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Treasury had to buy at current market at prices 4.5 million ounces of silver monthly - the amount being produced every month by the nation's silver mines
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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Election where Republicans gain control of the Presidency and Congress
Election of 1896
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Bill that did not really break up in any major trust intially
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Republican presidential candidate in 1896; best known for his unpopular tariff
William McKinley
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President because of the Compromise of 1877 and civil service reformer
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Group that Cleveland attempted to curb buy investigating all of their pension claims for fraud
Grand Army of Republic
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Court Case that decided separate but equal
Plessy vs. Fergurson
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called the Crime of '73 where the Treasury department stopped coining silver
Coinage Act
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1872 Grant scandal involving the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad by the Union Pacific Railroad. Congressmen were give shares of stock and cash bribes in exchange for favorable legislation
Credit Moblier
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Major issue of the 1888 election
Tariffs
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Strike/protest in Chicago led by Knights of Labor
Haymarket Square
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Republican candidate that won the Election of 1888
Benjamin Harrison
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1878 act veto by Hayes that required the Treasury to buy 2-4 million in silver every year and mint it into coins, but did not circulate the coins
Bland-Allison Act
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First Democratic president in 28 years
Grover Cleveland
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Racial segregation at public facilities
Jim Crow Laws
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Republican faction opposed to reforms
Stalwarts
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Republicans that favored reform and supported Cleveland for president in 1884
Mugwumps

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