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Gilded Age Politics Flashcards

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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

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Cross of Gold

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Raised tariff rates almost 50%

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McKinley Tariff

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Supported tariff reform, which did not help him regain the presidency in 1888

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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

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Gained the Democratic nomination in 1896 because of his support for the unlimited coinage of silver

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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

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Populist Party

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Ran the New York boss system/machine where the “bosses” determined patronage, candidates etc…

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Boss Tweed

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The major issue of the 1896 election

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Silver Coinage

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Pardoned the surviving anarchists convicted in the Haymarket Riot

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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

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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

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Wabash vs. Illinois

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New York Senator who was the leader of the Stalwarts of the Republican party

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Roscoe Conkling

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Populist candidate in the election of 1892

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James Weaver

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Democratic political machine of New York

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Tammany Hall

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Republican group that supported some civil service reforms

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Half-Breeds

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Democratic presidential candidate in 1896; cross of gold speech

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William Jennings Bryan

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Republican presidential candidate in 1884

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James Blaine

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President who wanted to lower the surplus by reducing the tariff

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Grover Cleveland

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Outlawed the unfair pricing activities on the part of railroads; it was not strictly enforced

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Interstate Commerce

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Directed McKinley’s presidential campaign

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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

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Sherman Silver Purchase Act

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Election where Republicans gain control of the Presidency and Congress

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Election of 1896

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Bill that did not really break up in any major trust intially

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Republican presidential candidate in 1896; best known for his unpopular tariff

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William McKinley

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President because of the Compromise of 1877 and civil service reformer

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Group that Cleveland attempted to curb buy investigating all of their pension claims for fraud

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Grand Army of Republic

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Court Case that decided separate but equal

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Plessy vs. Fergurson

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called the Crime of ‘73 where the Treasury department stopped coining silver

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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

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Credit Moblier

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Major issue of the 1888 election

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Tariffs

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Strike/protest in Chicago led by Knights of Labor

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Haymarket Square

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Republican candidate that won the Election of 1888

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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

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Bland-Allison Act

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First Democratic president in 28 years

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Grover Cleveland

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Racial segregation at public facilities

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Jim Crow Laws

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Republican faction opposed to reforms

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Stalwarts

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Republicans that favored reform and supported Cleveland for president in 1884

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Mugwumps

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