Influential people
Although being a war hero, this man was a weak political leader?
Grant
What Act granted land to loyal citizens?
The Homestead Act
What are the values of the Populist party?
Shorter workweek, restrictions on immigration, public ownership of railroads.
What company was involved in the Credit mobilier scandal?
Union Pacific Railroad and their insiders
What were Jim crow laws
Segregation Laws
Who was the compromise candidate for the republican party in 1876?
Rutherford B Hayes
What was the compromise that handled the dispute between Democratic candidate Samuel Tilden and Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes?
Compromise of 1877
Through what group of people did the democratic party get its votes?
Through immigrant Lutherans and roman Catholics
What was the Whiskey Ring Scandal?
Distillers worked with government officials to evade taxes. This tarnished Grant’s presidency.
What Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson?
Brown vs Board of Education
Which politician stole about $200 million from NYC?
William “Boss” Tweed
Native Americans had to live like Americans for 25 years to become citizens
Through what group of people did the democratic party get its votes?
People in the Midwest and Northern territories
What court ruling created "Separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
Jane Addams
This dynamic duo concocted a scheme in 1869 to corner the Gold Market.
Gould and Fisk
When people were frightened that chinese immigrants would take jobs, what act was put into place?
The Chinese Exclusion act
They were a fraction of the republican party that supported President Ulysses S. Grant
Stalwarts
What was the Corrupt Bargain of 1876?
An agreement in which federal troops would be withdrawn from the South, and in return the Democrats promised to support Hayes' election and to accept Reconstruction acts.
A group a veterans from the Civil War who served for the Union forces
Grand Army of the Republic
Who was James A. Garfield’s running mate in 1880 for the Republican party?
What was the gold standard act
Defined the United States dollar by gold weight and required the United States Treasury to redeem, on-demand and in gold coin only, paper currency the Act specified.
The ______ party leaned on immigrant Lutherans and roman Catholics for more votes s
Who tried to raise the price in the gold market?
Jim Fisk & Jay Gould
What was the “waving the bloody shirt”
Referring to reviving memories from the Civil War. And ultimately became a presidential campaign technique