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At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant

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Accepted gifts of houses and money from citizens

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In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

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Owed his victory to the votes of former slave

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As a result of the Civil War

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Waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of the Republic

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In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters

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Of the "treason" of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War

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Which one of the following is least related to the other three

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"Ohio Idea"

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One weapon that was used to put Boss Tweed, leader of New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, in jail was

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The cartoons of the political satirist Thomas Nast

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The Credit Mobilier scandal involved

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Railroad construction kickbacks

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In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of Credit Mobilizer

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Distributed shares of the company's valuable stock to key congressmen.

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President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because

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His opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency

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One cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was

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The construction of more factories than existing markets would bear.

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As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested

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Inflationary policies

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One result of Republican "hard money" policies was

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The formation of the Greenback Labor party

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Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usually

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party loyalists

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During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans

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had few significant economic differences

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The presidential elections of the 1870's and 1880's

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Aroused great interest among voters

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One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was

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Sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties

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During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was

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political patronage

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"Spoilsmen" was the label attached to those who

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Expected governmental jobs from their party's elected office holders

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The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on

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The two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana

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The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

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The withdrawal of federal troops from the South

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The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) was

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Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland

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In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

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"Separate but equal" facilities were constitutional

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At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African-Americans with

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Literacy requirements, poll taxes, economic intimidation, and grandfather clauses

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The legal codes that established the system of segregation were

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Called Jim Crow laws

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The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes opened with

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Scenes of class warfare

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The railroad strike of 1877 started when

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The four largest railroads cut salaries by ten percent

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Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from

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Long years of depression and deflation

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Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in

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The use of federal troops during strikes

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In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress

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Passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America

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Which one of the following developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States

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The disintegration of the Chinese empire, the seizure of farmland by landlords, the intrusion of European powers, and internal political turmoil

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One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to

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Dig for gold

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Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the second was

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James Garfield

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President James A. Garfield was assassinated

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By a deranged, disappointed office seeker

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The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to

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Take a competitive examination

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With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now sought money from

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Big corporations

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The 1844 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for

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Its personal attacks on the two candidates

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Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a different party affiliation from the other four?

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Grover Cleveland

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When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support of

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Businesspeople

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On the issue of the 1888 presidential election was

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Tariff policy

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In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true that the focus of political power was

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Congress

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The "Billion-Dollar congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by

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Expanding pensions for Civil War veterans

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Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist Party in their convention of 1892

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Government guarantees of "parity prices" for farmers

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The four states completely carried by the Populist party in the election of 1892 were

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Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada

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The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in

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A racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South

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The political developments of the 1890s were largely shaped by

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The most severe and extended economic depression up to that time

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Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader

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William Jennings Bryan

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President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of

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Borrowing $65 million in gold form J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate

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The Liberal Republican movement favored

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An end to military Reconstruction in the South and Civil service reform

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In the Gilded Age, "hard money" policies were reflected in

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The Resumption Act of 1875, The "Crime of 73", and Contraction

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In the late nineteenth century, the republican party was associated with the cultural values of

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Puritanism, Personal morality, Community welfare, and Active government regulation

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In the late nineteenth century, Democrats could count on the support of

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The South, Northern industrial cities, Immigrant groups, and Catholics and Lutherans

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Most of the presidential of the 1870s and 1800s

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Civil War veterans and Republicans narrow victories

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18th president

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Grant

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His administration is noted for scandal and corruption

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Grant

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Elected by the bloody shirt and 500,000 African Americans who were right to vote with the 15th Amendment

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Grant

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Term of office was deemed the "Era of Good Stealings"

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Grant

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Stockbrokers and financiers who tried to corner the gold market

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Jay Fisk and Jay Gould

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Black Friday

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Jay Fisk and Jay Gould

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Political cartoonist

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Thomas Nast

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Created Santa Clause, Uncle Sam, the republican symbol (elephant), the democratic symbol (donkey), and Boss Tweed

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Thomas Nast

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Helped bring down the Tweed ring by focusing public attention on Tweed's control of local government and the police

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Thomas Nast

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American newspaper editor for New York Tribune

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Horace Greeley

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Worked with Nast to bring down the Tweed Ring

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Horace Greeley

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19th president

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Promised to withdraw troops from the South to end Reconstruction in order to end the disputed election

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Ran against Hayes in 1876

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Samuel Tilden

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Election was disputed

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Samuel Tilden

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Agreed to give the election to Hayes if Hayes would end Reconstruction and remove troops frrom the South, aka the Compromise of 1877

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Samuel Tilden

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Last of the "log cabin" presidents

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James A. Garfield

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Attacked political corruption and won back for the Presidency a measue of prestige it had lost during the Reconstruction

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James A. Garfield

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Assasinated by Charles Guiteau

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James A. Garfield

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Pendleton Act/ Civil Service Reform was intiated because of Garfield's assasination

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James A. Garfield

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21st president

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Chester A. Arthur

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Pendleton Act (Civil Service Act)

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Chester A. Arthur

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Assasinated Garfield because he thought he deserved a government job after working to get Garfield elected

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Charles Guiteau

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22nd and 24th president

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Grover Cleveland

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Returned the nation to a gold standard

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Grover Cleveland

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Was elected because he was considered a man of principles

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Grover Cleveland

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Republicans jumped party loyalty (mugwumps) to vote for him in an attempt to end the corruption that had plagued the Republicans under Grant

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Grover Cleveland

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Depression of 1893

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Grover Cleveland

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23rd president

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Benjamin Harrison

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Sherman Anti-trust Act

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Benjamin Harrison

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25th president

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William McKinley

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Depression of 1893 nearly over

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William McKinley

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High Tariff

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William McKinley

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Spanish American War

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William McKinley

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Populist

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James B. Weaver

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Agrarian Reformer

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James B. Weaver

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Ran for president twice

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James B. Weaver

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His ideas would give birth to the Progressive Party

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James B. Weaver

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Vice President under Cleveland

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Adlai E. Stevenson

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Free Silver (Populist Party idea)

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Adlai E. Stevenson

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Ran for Vice President with William Jennings Bryan (Populist Party)

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Adlai E. Stevenson

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Populist Party leader (wing of Democratic party)

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William Jennings Bryan

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Cross of Gold Speech

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William Jennings Bryan

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Favored the silver standard over the gold standard

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William Jennings Bryan

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Worked to help farmers fight high prices, inflation, transportation costs

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William Jennnings Bryan

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In American politics, government appropriations for political purposes, especially projects designed to please legislators or lock in a constituency

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Pork barrel

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"One way to reduce the surplus was to squander it on pensions and ______-_______ bills"

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Pork barrel

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Banking/Finance

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JP Morgan

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In 1895, at the depths of the Panic of 1893, the Federal Treasury was nearly out of gold. President Grover Cleveland accepted his offer to join with the Rothschilds and supply the US Treasury with 3.5 million ounces of gold to restore the Treasury surplus

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JP Morgan

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Saved the Treasury but hurt Cleveland with the agrarian wing of the Democratic Party and became an issue in the election of 1896, when banks came under a withering attack from William Jennings Bryan

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JP Morgan

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He and other Wall Street bankers donated heavily to Republican William McKinley, who was elected in 1896 and reelected in 1900

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JP Morgan

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Became widely used by farmers in the US in the South from the 1860s to the 1920s

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Crop-Lien System

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After the American Civil War, farmers in the South had little cash. This system was a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests.

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Crop-Lien System

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Local merchants provided food and supplies all year long on credit; when the cotton crop was harvested farmers turned it over to the merchant to pay back their loan. Sometimes there was cash left over; when cotton prices were low, the crop did not cover the debt and the farmer started the next year in debt.

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Crop-Lien System

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The credit system was used by land owners, sharecroppers and tenant farmers

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Crop-Lien System

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Scarce money with high purchase value

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Hard money

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Money adequately backed by capital assets or reserves.

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Sound money

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The return of a portion of the money recieved in a sale or contract, often secretly or illegally, in exchange for favors

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Kickback

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Republicans who voted for Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in 1884 to make a statement against Republican party corruption (aka party bolters)

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Mugwumps

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Traditional Republicans who opposed civil service reform

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Stalwarts

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Conservative, white Southerners who wanted the Republicans out of the South

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Redeemers

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Established the US Civil Service Commission and places federal employees on the merit system

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Pendleton Act

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Ended the spoils system

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Pendleton Act

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A famous speech given by James Blaine that cost him the presidency in 1884

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Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion

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Stereotypes the Irish as drunken and rebellious

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Rum, Romanism, and Rebllion

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Singled out Irish Catholics as "bad"

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Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion

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Term for segregation laws imposed in the 1890s

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Jim Crow Laws

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Designed to keep Blacks from achieving gains of 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments

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Jim Crow Laws

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Statutory or constitutional device enacted by seven Southern states between 1895 and 1910 to deny suffrage to American Blacks

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Grandfather Clause

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It stated that those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1866 or 1867, or their lineal descendants, would be exempt from educational, property, or tax requirements for voting. Because the former slaves had not been granted sufferage until the adoption of the 15th Amendment in 1870, these clauses worked effectively to exclude blacks from the vote but assured the right to many impoverished and illiterate whites.

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Grandfather clause

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In 1915 the Supreme Court declared this unconstitutional because it violated equal voting rights guaranteed by the 15th Amendments

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Grandfather clause

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