Gilded Age:PA APUSH study guide part 5 – Flashcards

The effect of the Act was, the day before the second-term inauguration of President Ulysses S. Grant, to double the salary of the President (to $50,000) and the salaries of Supreme Court Justices

The party opposed the shift from paper money back to a specie-based monetary system because it believed that privately owned banks and corporations would then reacquire the power to define the value of products and labor. Conversely, they believed that government control of the monetary system would allow it to keep more currency in circulation, as it had in the war

an 1878 act of Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars. Vetoed by President Rutherford B. Hayes, the Congress overrode Hayes' veto on February 28, 1878 to enact the law

Pased in 1882; banned Chinese immigration in US for a total of 40 years because the United States thought of them as a threat. Caused chinese population in America to decrease.

this Established the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) - monitors the business operation of carriers transporting goods and people between states - created to regulate railroad prices, didnt allow rebates and pools

(place) an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city, boss tweed, corrupt politics

Helped Congress returned the right to vote and the right to hold federal and state office, passed in 1872

Unwritten deal that settled the 1876 presidential election contest between Rutherford Hayes (Rep) and Samuel Tilden (Dem.) Hayes was awarded the presidency in exchange for the permanent removal of federal troops from the South. Hayes also got reconstruction and blacks were abandoned

Required the government to purchase an additional 4.5 million ounces of silver bullion each month for use as currency., Increased silver purchase quotas previously set by Bland-Allison Act, but leads to gold-running on the US Treasury

an 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States

(1877) Supreme Court ruled that states could regulate businesses clothed with a "public interest" including railroads. Went against "Granger laws" in which farmers wanted to fix max freight rates and warehouse charge against grain elevators

popular name for Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1886. The decision narrowed earlier ones (see Munn v. Illinois) favorable to state regulation of those phases of interstate commerce upon which Congress itself had not acted. The court declared invalid an Illinois law prohibiting long- and short-haul clauses in transportation contracts as an infringement on the exclusive powers of Congress granted by the commerce clause of the Constitution. The result of the case was denial of state power to regulate interstate rates for railroads, and the decision led to creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.

An expression used as a vote getting stratagem by the Republicans during the election of 1876 to offset charges of corruption by blaming the Civil War on the Democrats.

Imposed a duty on Cuban sugar, which was entering the US duty free under the McKinley Tariff. Economy deeply depended on exports

1883 law that created a Civil Service Commission and stated that federal employees could not be required to contribute to campaign funds nor be fired for political reasons

known as the "'Sugar Trust Case,'" was a United States Supreme Court case that limited the government's power to control monopolies.

1911 - Congressional commission set up to investigate demands for immigration restriction. It's report was a list of complains against the "new immigrants."

a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors. spoil system

gave Indians ownership individually of lands, broke up tribal unity mainly in Oklahoma

reduced high tariff rates only marginally, and left in place fairly strong protectionist barriers, President Chester A. Arthur appointed a commission in May 1882 to recommend how much tariff rates should be reduced

Agreement when Japan agreed to curb the number of workers coming to the US and in exchange Roosevelt agreed to allow the wives of the Japenese men already living in the US to join them