Unit 6: Important Events

Question 1

Compromise of 1877

Answer 1

The Compromise of 1877 was a deal that settled the 1876 presidential election. Pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era. Through the Compromise, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes became president.

Question 2

Haymarket Bombing

Answer 2

started by the haymark riots, which started in a reaper factory. standoff between union strikers and cops. someone threw a bomb and it killed a bunch of cops, and a pile of union leaders where arrested and put to death for it.

Question 3

Comstock Law

Answer 3

made it illegal to send obscene materials through the mail.

Question 4

16th Amendment

Answer 4

allowed an income tax

Question 5

Comstock Lode

Answer 5

a massive lode of silver ore dicovered in virginia

Question 6

Battle of Wounded Knee

Answer 6

a massacre of Indians sparked by the ghost dance.

Question 7

“Cross of Gold” Speech

Answer 7

a speech by williams jenning brian against the use of the gold standard, in favor of free silver.

Question 8

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Answer 8

an increase in the amount of silver purchased by the government. helped farmers by increasing inflation and allowing them to pay off their debts, and helped miners by giving them a profitable place to sell the silver to, the government.

Question 9

McKinley Tariff

Answer 9

massive terrif against imported goods, designed to boost our production.

Question 10

“Crime of ‘73”

Answer 10

also the coinage act of 1873, promoted the gold standard and demonetized silver. pissed off people who liked silver.

Question 11

Pendleton Act

Answer 11

awarded government jobs by merit, made it so you have to test into the jobs.

Question 12

Munn v. Illinois

Answer 12

a case dealing with corporate rates and agriculture. Illinois tried to regulate interstate commerce, feds said nope.

Question 13

Morrill Act

Answer 13

part of land grants, the government gave land to colleges.

Question 14

Sioux Wars

Answer 14

a series of skirmishes between the US and the Sioux, ended with tons of natives dying and the rest beign moved to reservations.

Question 15

Granger Laws

Answer 15

regulated the price of shipping and storage of grain for farmers.

Question 16

“Billion-Dollar” Congress

Answer 16

congress decided to use a billion dollar surplus to create a pension for all union civil war service men who could no longer work

Question 17

Pension Act

Answer 17

the act passed by the billion dollar congress, gave a pension to the disabled soldiers of the union.

Question 18

Depression of 1893

Answer 18

a serious economic downturn that began in 1893, caused by the collapse of the railroad bubble.

Question 19

Pullman Strike

Answer 19

a nationwide railroad strike. people where pissed because they lived in company towns and wages where cut in half but prices stayed the same.

Question 20

Bland-Allison Act

Answer 20

A law that made at least some silver currency in circulation.

Question 21

Credit Mobilier

Answer 21

Congressman in the transcontinental railroad company spread around his stock and bought support for the railroad.

Question 22

Wabash Cases

Answer 22

Disputes in the functions of railroads caused the interstate commerce commission to be created, and severely limited states capacity for dictating commerce.

Question 23

Panic of 1873

Answer 23

Railroads over-expanding and economic failures in Europe caused a panic that lasted until around 1879 and the greatest depression of that time.

Question 24

Dawes Severalty Act

Answer 24

Divided up the tribes and gave them individual land, essentially killing the tribes.

Question 25

Homestead Act

Answer 25

People moving west would be granted land and whatever else for moving and settling down on the frontier.

Question 26

Homestead Steel Strike

Answer 26

Sketchy strike where the pinkertons and strikers like killed almost a hundred of each other as there was confusion and violence between the union and the officials. Killed the union.

Question 27

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 27

Laws that made it so that blacks essentially couldn’t do anything, no voting or whatever because of the weird laws.

Question 28

Coxey’s Army

Answer 28

A group of people that marched on Washington and were just, arrested for trespassing. Hue.

Question 29

Gold Standard Act

Answer 29

Made it so that gold was the standard thing backing money. This was not even really an issue, it was just that people who were poorer had less assurance of their money then they would with silver.

Question 30

Omaha Platform

Answer 30

The populist party’s platform, represented with farmers and those more out West working on farms and as more blue collar work.

Question 31

Great RR Strike of 1877

Answer 31

Millions of dollars of property was destroyed as the strike, caused by disgruntled railroad workers hoping to get higher wages, waged on and was eventually ended by federal authorities.

Question 32

Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act

Answer 32

This reduced the United States tariff’s and made an income tax, promoting foreign relations and forcing Americans to pay for some of their crap.