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Politics In The Gilded Age Flashcards

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Who gave the gilded age its name?

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Mark twain

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What was the republican candidate’s slogan in the election of 1868?

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Vote the way you shot

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Who won the election of 1868?

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Grant

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How is president grant rated as president?

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One of the worst 5

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What do the call it when a person stands up and reminds northerners about what the South did during and after the war?

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Waving the bloody shirt

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Who was the first person to do this?

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Ben butler

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Another phrase to describe the gilded age is?

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Era of good stealing

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Who was grants brother in law who participated in Fisk and gould gold plot?

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Abel Corbin

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What do the call the day when president grant released gold into the economy after he discovered that he was tricked into holding gold in the treasury reserve??

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Black Friday

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How much money had president grants wife invested in gold?

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$500,000

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Who was the secretary of war that schemed to steal valuable food from the Native American Indians on the various reservations?

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Louis Belknop

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What member of president grants staff was in on the whiskey ring?

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Private secretary

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This fake company was created by the board of the Union Pacific Railroad to build bridges and tunnels?

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What was the rate of pay the fake company which was created by the Union Pacific received per mile to rebuild the railroad in the south?

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$50,000

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What member of president grants administration was bought out by the fake company created by Union Pacific?

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Vice President Schayler Colfax

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What was the percentage of profit that the fake company created by the Union Pacific earned during its existence?

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348%

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These were often powerful senators who controlled portions of a state and or many cities?

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Political bosses

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This is the name of the Democratic Party machine in New York City?

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Tammany Hall

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This guy was the boss of the Democratic Party machine in New York City?

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Boss Tweed

20
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The acquisition of money or political power through illegal or dishonest methods?

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Graft

21
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Named after its political boss, this organization worked out of Tammany Hall and welcomed immigrants arriving into America from Ellis island?

A

Tweed King

22
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What was the estimated amount of money that boss Tweed store from the government?

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$200 million

23
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This political cartoonist made it his purpose to destroy boss Tweed?

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Thomas Nast

24
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List three artistic creations that were created by Thomas Nast that have influenced America to this day

A

Donkey elephant Santa

25
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What word was created due to the nature of Nast’s dogged attack upon boss Tweed?

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Nasty

26
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This man lost, in one month, the presidential election, his wife, his job, his mind and his life?

A

Greeley

27
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This happened in 1873 when people stop trusting the American dollar?

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Panic of 1873

28
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What was Rutherford B Hayes’s nickname before the presidential election of 1876?

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The great unknown

29
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List three nicknames for Rutherford B Hayes after the election of 1876

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Ole 8-7
His fraudulence
Rutherfraud

30
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This committee of representative was assembled to determine who was present in the election of 1876?

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Committee of 15

31
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Who won the popular vote and probably the presidency in the election of 1876?

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Sam Tilden

32
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After the election of 1876, this ended in the south?

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Reconstruction

33
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This is what they call the agreement to allow Rutherford B Hayes to become the president?

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Compromise of 1877

34
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What was Rutherford B Hayes’s wife’s nickname?

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Lemonade Lucy

35
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Which faction of the republican party favors some civil service testing?

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Stalwarts

36
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Who won the election of 1880?

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Garfield

37
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Who was chosen to be Garfield’s vice president?

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Chester A Arthur

38
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Who shot Garfield?

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Charles Guiteau

39
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What political party (faction) did the assassin of Garfield belong to?

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Stalwarts

40
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This is the general statement often made about Arthur concerning how he changed overnight to deserve to be president of the United States?

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Rose to office

41
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This election is often referred to as one of the dirtiest elections of all time?

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Election of 1884

42
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What Republicans action did James Blaine belong to?

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Halfbreed

43
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These were Republicans who were so upset that Arthur wasn’t given a chance to run for office against the election of 1880 for that they voted for Democratic candidate?

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Mugwumps

44
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Who was the Democratic candidate that won the election of 1884?

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Cleveland

45
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What was the most serious attack upon the Democratic candidate in the election of 1884?

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Illegitimate child

46
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List two attacks fired back at the Republican candidate in the election of 1884

A

Guano beds

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