APUSH Chapter 23 – Flashcards

The Tweed Ring or "Tammany Hall" was group of people in New York City who worked with and for "Boss" Tweed. He was a crooked politician and money-maker. The ring supported all of his eactions; d, that used tactics such as bribery, graft, and fradulent elections; in 1871, the New York Times published evidence of Tweed's corruption and illegal activities, leading to his arrest and conviction.

The Gilded Age was a period in U.S. history around 1870-1900 that seemed fine on the outside, but was politically corrupt internally. This term was used by Mark Twain

a system that benefits, including jobs, money, or protection are granted in exchange fro political support

Laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government

A system of agriculture used in the south after the Civil War in which a landowner allows a tenant, usually blacks or poor whites, to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of the land

Supreme Court case about Jim Crow railroad cars in Louisiana; the Court decided by 7 to 1 that legislation could not overcome racial attitudes, and that it was constitutional to have "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites.

put a stop to Chinese immigration to America; Started when people of the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic troubles to the hated Chinese workers; In order to appease them Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act

A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867