The complex political agreement between republicans and democrats that resulted in the bitterly disputed election of 1876.
What is Compromise of 1877?
100
A military veteran group that supported Republicans?
What is the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.)?
100
Heavyweight New York political boss whose widespread fraud landed him in jail in 1871.
Who is Boss Tweed?
100
Mark Twain's sarcastic name for the post-Civil War era which emphasized greed and corruption.
What is the Gilded Age?
100
Forced Boss Tweed out of power and into jail.
Who is cartoonist Thomas Nast and the "New York Times"?
200
Clause in southern voting laws that exempted from literacy tests and poll taxes anyone whose ancestors voted in 1860.
What is "Grandfather Clause"?
200
Republican party faction led by Senator James G. Blaine that paid lip service to government reform while still battling for patronage and spoils.
What are Half-Breeds?
200
This man ran the House of Representatives like a dictator.
Who is Thomas "Czar" Reed?
200
Precious metal that soft-money advocates demanded be coined again to compensate for the Crime of '73.
What is silver?
200
Caused numerous scandals during President Grant's administration?
Who are favor-seeking businesspeople?
Who are corrupt politicians?
300
Reformed the federal government’s civil service system.
What is the Pendleton Act?
300
Republican Party faction led by Senator Roscoe Conkling that opposed all attempts at civil-service reform.
What are Stalwarts?
300
Great military leader whose presidency foundered in corruption and political ineptitude.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
What is the symbol of the Republican political tactic of attacking Democrats with reminders of the Civil War?
What is the "bloody shirt"?
300
Caused unemployment, railroad strikes, and demand for cheap money.
What is the economic crash of the mid-1870s?
400
-Started by over-spending with borrowed money in railroad factories
-Caused over-speculation and too-easy credit given by the banks
What is Panic of 1873?
400
-Republican political activists who supported Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the U.S. presidential election of 1884.
-A person who is unable to make up his or her mind between joining Half-Breeds or Stalwarts.
What are Mugwumps?
400
Bold and unprincipled financer whose plot to corner the U.S. gold market nearly succeeded in 1869.
who is Jim Fisk?
400
System of choosing federal employees on the basis of merit rather than patronage introduced by the Pendleton Act of 1883.
What is Civil Service?
400
Caused anti-Chinese violence and restrictions against Chinese immigration.
What did white workers' resentment of Chinese labor competition cause?
500
Began to lower the number of greenbacks in circulation and to redeem paper money at face value starting in 1879.
What is the Resumption Act?
500
Short-lived third party of 1872 that attempted to curb Grant administration corruption.
What is the Liberal Republican Party?
500
Young Congressman from Nebraska who became the most prominent advocate of free silver in the early 1890s.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
Sky-high Republican tariff of 1890 that caused widespread anger among farmers in the Midwest and the South.
What is the McKinley Tariff?
500
Led to failure of the third-party revolt in the South and a growing racial backlash.
What is the inability of Populists leaders to overcome divisions between white and black farmers?