history ch 19

Question 1

Half breeds and stalwarts

Answer 1

2 groups competing for control of the Republican Party and threatening to split it; Roscoe Conkling of NY led stalwarts, James G Blaine of Maine led half breeds

Question 2

Roscoe Conkling

Answer 2

Leader of stalwarts who was a close ally to Chester A Arthur

Question 3

Dark horse

Answer 3

Little known political candidate

Question 4

James A Garfield

Answer 4

A veteran congressman from Ohio and a half breed who was nominated by the Republicans for president in 1880

Question 5

Chester A Arthur

Answer 5

A stalwart and Conkling henchman who was nominated by the Republicans for Vice President in 1880(succeeded Garfield)

Question 6

Pendleton act

Answer 6

Passed by congress in 1883 which required that some federal jobs be filled by competitive written examinations rather than by patronage

Question 7

James G Blaine

Answer 7

Leader of half Breeds(known as the plumed knight) who lost to democrat Grover Clevelnad in the election of 1884

Question 8

Mugwumps

Answer 8

A group of disgruntled “liberal Republicans” who said they would bolt the party and support an honest Democrat

Question 9

Rum, romanism, rebellion

Answer 9

Dr. Samuel Burchard referred to the democrats as the party of this

Question 10

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 10

Passed to curb the power of trusts

Question 11

McKinley Act

Answer 11

Designed to protect domestic industries by placing a tariff on imported goods

Question 12

James B Weaver

Answer 12

People’s Party Candidate

Question 13

Wilson Gorman Tariff

Answer 13

Imposed 2% income tax, Cleveland reduced the tariff

Question 14

Granger Laws

Answer 14

Had states imposing strict regulation of railroad rates and practices, political inexperience led to their downfall

Question 15

Interstate commerce act

Answer 15

Banned discrimination in rates between long and short hauls, requires railroads to publish rate schedules, enforced by the courts

Question 16

Populism

Answer 16

Power of regular people in right to control government

Question 17

The grange

Answer 17

Encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well being of the community

Question 18

Oliver H. Kelly

Answer 18

Minor agriculture dept. official that founded the National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry

Question 19

Farmers Declaration of Independence

Answer 19

Proclaimed the time had come for farmers suffering from oppression to rouse themselves from an apathetic indifference to their own interests

Question 20

Farmers alliance

Answer 20

Vehicle for providing agrarian treatment, established local marketing mechanics to free them from dependence on furnishing merchants

Question 21

Mary E Lease

Answer 21

Fiery populist orator in an alliance who urged farmers to raise less corn and more hell.

Question 22

Ocala demands

Answer 22

A party platform for the southern and northwestern alliances

Question 23

Tom Watson

Answer 23

Only southern congressman to identify with the alliance from Georgia

Question 24

Free silver

Answer 24

Idea permitting silver to become basis of currency to expand money supply

Question 25

Ignatius Donnelly

Answer 25

Believed in populist ideas, a charlatan, he pieced together a record by a series of secret deals with railroad companies

Question 26

Omaha platform 1892

Answer 26

Idea of sub treasuries which would. Strengthen the cooperatives which the granger and alliances had been expirementing with for years, Establish warehouses for crops, abolish banks, and absentee ownership of land

Question 27

Coxey’s army

Answer 27

Jacob s Coxey organized a group of unemployed people to the capital to present their demands of public work programs and an inflation of the currency to the gov.

Question 28

Bimetallism

Answer 28

Situation in which the US recognize gold and silver as a basis for the dollar

Question 29

Sherman silver purchase act 1893

Answer 29

Required the gov to purchase(but not to coin) silver and pay for it in gold, caused gold reserves to weaken

Question 30

William H. Harvey’s coins financial school

Answer 30

1894, became one of the great bestsellers of its age, tells of fictional professor coin’s imaginary school of finance and consisted of his lectures and dialogues with students

Question 31

Marcus A. Hannah

Answer 31

Ohio boss who led Republican Party leaders, chose governors William McKinley of Ohio as the party’s presidential candidate, later became president

Question 32

Williams Jennings Bryan

Answer 32

Congressman from Nebraska, delivered one of the most famous political speeches in American history in support of free silver, 1896 ran for pres

Question 33

Cross of gold speech

Answer 33

Delivered by Williams Jennings Bryan, stated that they would fight the gold standard, led to Bryan’s nomination for pres of the fifth ballot

Question 34

Fusion

Answer 34

Merging of populists and democrats, many believed this would destroy the populist party

Question 35

Gold standard act 1900

Answer 35

Confirmed the nation’s commitment to the gold standard by assigning a specific gold value to the dollar and required all currency issued by the US to hew to that value

Question 36

Dingley tariff

Answer 36

Highest protective tariff in American history

Question 37

His fraudulency

Answer 37

President Rutherford B Hayes’ nickname because of the disputed 1876 election that had elevated him to presidency