Politics In The Gilded Age Flashcards
Who gave the gilded age its name?
Mark twain
What was the republican candidate’s slogan in the election of 1868?
Vote the way you shot
Who won the election of 1868?
Grant
How is president grant rated as president?
One of the worst 5
What do the call it when a person stands up and reminds northerners about what the South did during and after the war?
Waving the bloody shirt
Who was the first person to do this?
Ben butler
Another phrase to describe the gilded age is?
Era of good stealing
Who was grants brother in law who participated in Fisk and gould gold plot?
Abel Corbin
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??
Black Friday
How much money had president grants wife invested in gold?
$500,000
Who was the secretary of war that schemed to steal valuable food from the Native American Indians on the various reservations?
Louis Belknop
What member of president grants staff was in on the whiskey ring?
Private secretary
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?
$50,000
What member of president grants administration was bought out by the fake company created by Union Pacific?
Vice President Schayler Colfax
What was the percentage of profit that the fake company created by the Union Pacific earned during its existence?
348%
These were often powerful senators who controlled portions of a state and or many cities?
Political bosses
This is the name of the Democratic Party machine in New York City?
Tammany Hall
This guy was the boss of the Democratic Party machine in New York City?
Boss Tweed
The acquisition of money or political power through illegal or dishonest methods?
Graft
Named after its political boss, this organization worked out of Tammany Hall and welcomed immigrants arriving into America from Ellis island?
Tweed King
What was the estimated amount of money that boss Tweed store from the government?
$200 million
This political cartoonist made it his purpose to destroy boss Tweed?
Thomas Nast
List three artistic creations that were created by Thomas Nast that have influenced America to this day
Donkey elephant Santa
What word was created due to the nature of Nast’s dogged attack upon boss Tweed?
Nasty
This man lost, in one month, the presidential election, his wife, his job, his mind and his life?
Greeley
This happened in 1873 when people stop trusting the American dollar?
Panic of 1873
What was Rutherford B Hayes’s nickname before the presidential election of 1876?
The great unknown
List three nicknames for Rutherford B Hayes after the election of 1876
Ole 8-7
His fraudulence
Rutherfraud
This committee of representative was assembled to determine who was present in the election of 1876?
Committee of 15
Who won the popular vote and probably the presidency in the election of 1876?
Sam Tilden
After the election of 1876, this ended in the south?
Reconstruction
This is what they call the agreement to allow Rutherford B Hayes to become the president?
Compromise of 1877
What was Rutherford B Hayes’s wife’s nickname?
Lemonade Lucy
Which faction of the republican party favors some civil service testing?
Stalwarts
Who won the election of 1880?
Garfield
Who was chosen to be Garfield’s vice president?
Chester A Arthur
Who shot Garfield?
Charles Guiteau
What political party (faction) did the assassin of Garfield belong to?
Stalwarts
This is the general statement often made about Arthur concerning how he changed overnight to deserve to be president of the United States?
Rose to office
This election is often referred to as one of the dirtiest elections of all time?
Election of 1884
What Republicans action did James Blaine belong to?
Halfbreed
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?
Mugwumps
Who was the Democratic candidate that won the election of 1884?
Cleveland
What was the most serious attack upon the Democratic candidate in the election of 1884?
Illegitimate child
List two attacks fired back at the Republican candidate in the election of 1884
Guano beds
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