Grover Cleveland

Question 1

Grover Cleveland

Answer 1

Brinkley 555, 543, 504, 550, 540, 530, 493
President from 1885-1889 and from 1893-1897
22nd and 24th President of the United States

Question 2

Haymarket Square

Answer 2

Brinkley 491-492

A major riot that occurred during the AFL general strike of 1886

On May 4, 1886 police began harassing peaceful demonstrators protesting for an eight-hour work week in Haymarket Square. One protester threw a bomb at the police, killing seven officers and injuring sixty-seven other people. Police then fired into the crowd, killing four additional people.

Question 3

Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad Co. v. Illinois

Answer 3

Brinkley 534

Supreme Court case that ruled one of the Granger laws in Illinois unconstitutional.

Limited States’ abilities to regulate commerce in their own boundaries.

Question 4

Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 4

Brinkley 534

1887 Act that which banned discrimination in Railroad Rates and forced railroads to file their rates with the government.

Also created a five person Interstate Commerce Commission to administer the act. This commission had little practical effect for almost twenty years.

Question 5

Panic of 1893

Answer 5

Brinkley 540-541

Financial collaps caused by the bankruptcy of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company in 1893.

Led to the failure of the stock market, 8,000 businesses, 156 railroads, and 400 banks.

Showed how interconnected the economy had become.

Question 6

Coxey’s Army

Answer 6

Brinkley 541

A march of the unemployed on the Capitol to protest the high unemployment rates in 1894. Led by Jacob S. Coxey, who was later arrested, the “army” marched from Masillon, Ohio to D.C. only to be barred from entering by armed police.

Question 7

Cross of Gold Speech

Answer 7

Brinkley 544-545

Speech delivered by William Jennings Bryant at the 1896 Democratic convention to protest the United State’s fixation on the gold standard.

This speech was given mainly as a response to the pro-gold acts made early in the decade, such “the Crime of 73”

Question 8

Pullman Strike

Answer 8

Brinkley 492-493

A general strike of railroad workers in more than 27 states in 1894.

This strike occurred in response to the Pullman Palace Car Company slashing workers wages by 25% while refusing to lower rent rates in their workers’ town. Workers went on strike. The strike was only broken when Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago to break the strike.

Question 9

Wilson-Gorman Tariff

Answer 9

Brinkley 534

A modest tariff reduction approved by Cleveland in 1894