CH 23
Republican winner of the Elections of 1868 and 1872.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Place where the first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.
What was Promontory Point, Utah?
Ratio of silver to gold farmers wanted.
What was 16 ounces of silver for 1 ounce of gold?
Allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30.
What was the Homestead Act?
Battle where Custer and his entire army were killed by the Sioux.
What was Little Big Horn?
Scandal where government officials stole millions of dollars in excise-tax money.
What was the Whiskey Ring?
Act passed in 1887 that banned rebates and pools, required the railroads to publish their rates openly, forbade unfair discrimination against shippers, and created the ICC.
What was the Interstate Commerce Act?
The "crime of '73" was about what coinage issue?
What was free silver?
Black farmers who moved west under the Homestead Act.
Who were the Exodusters?
Colonel J.M. Chivington’s militia massacred some four hundred Indians in cold blood at this place.
What was Sand Creek?
Union Pacific Railroad insiders formed a fake construction company and then hired themselves at inflated prices to build the railroad line, earning high dividends.
What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
Financier who organized the creation of U.S. Steel.
Who was JP Morgan?
Populist and Democratic presidential candidate who gave the Cross of Gols speech.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
Founded by Oliver H. Kelley to improve the lives of isolated farmers through social, educational, and fraternal activities.
What was the Granger?
Wrote the book A Century of Dishonor.
Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?
Winner of the 1880 election who was later assassinated.
Who was James Garfield?
A list of troublemakers who were prevented from getting new jobs in their industry.
What is a blacklist?
The Treasury refused to buy more than the minimum amount of silver required by this act so no real inflation occurred. (Inflation would make the farmers’ debts worth less.)
What was the Bland-Allison Act 1878?
Organization that called for the nationalization of railroads, the abolition of national banks, and a graduated income tax.
What were the Farmers' Alliances?
Massacre that ended the Ghost Dance War in 1890 and marks the end of the Indian Wars.
What was Wounded Knee?
Winner of the Elections of 1884 and 1892 and loser of the 1888 election.
Who was Grover Cleveland?
Union founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers that consisted of an association of self-governing national unions, each of which kept its own independence.
What was the AFL?
Increased the amount of silver that the government was required to purchase every month but required the Treasury to buy the silver with notes that could be redeemed for either silver or gold.
What was the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?
Political party of farmers who created the Omaha Platform in 1892.
What was the Populist Party?
Act that said if the Indians became settled farmers on reservations, they could receive full U.S. citizenship in 25 years
What was the Dawes Severalty Act 1887?