Quiz Flashcards
Three characteristics of the Gilided Age
-New polices dealing with Native Americans
-rise of political machine running local policies
- the growth of Industrialization
Why did Native Americans suffer during the Gilded age?
Forced to adopt USA culture
Why did blacks suffer during the Gilded age?
Denied rights
Why did immigrants suffer during the Gilded age?
Discrimination
Why did farmers suffer during the Gilded age?
Overproduction
Why did women suffer during the Gilded age?
Denied right to vote
Why did children suffer during the Gilded age?
They were cheap labor
Political machines
Powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office
Political Boss
William Marcy Tweed
Graft
Illegal use of political influence for personal gain
What were the two scandals that US grant was Associated with
Whiskey ring scandal
Credit mobliea
US Grant _____ and _____
-smoked a dozen cigars a day
-liked fast carriages
What president became president because of a back room deal called what
-Rutherford B Hayes
-compromise of 1877
What did the south get in the compermise of 1877
-removal of troops in the south
-transcontinental railroad
-improve southern rivers
-appoint southern democrats to cabinet
Rutherford B Hayes was from what state
Ohio
