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The Era of Good Stealings and Grant's Election
Corruption and The Liberal Republican Revolt
Depression, Deflation, and Inflation
Pallid Politics in the Gilded Age
The Compromise and the End of Reconstruction
100
Notorious in the financial world were two millionaire partners...
Who are Jubilee Jim Fisk and Jay Gould?
100
The easygoing Grant was first tarred by the...
What was the Credit Mobiler scandal?
100
This was a politically potent fraternal organization of several hundred thousand Union veterans of Civil War...
What is the Grand Army of the Republic?
100
This compromise was in this year...
When was 1877?
200
Wrangling between Congress and President Andrew Johnson had soured the people on professional politicians in the...
What is the Reconstrucion Era?
200
In 1874-1875 this group robbed the treasury of millions in excise tax revenues...
Who are the Whiskey Ring?
200
Banks gave to many of these during this small depression...
What are loans?
200
This name given by Mark Twain to three decade long post Civil War era
What is the Gilded Age-sarcastic?
200
This set up an electoral commission consisting of 15 men selected from Senate, House, and Supreme Court...
What is Electoral College Act
300
On this day Fisk and Gould madly bid the price of gold skyward, while scores of honest businessmen were driven to the wall...
What was Black Friday?
300
Liberal Republicans nominated this man for presidency...
Who was Horace Greeley?
300
By 1868, the Treasury had withdrawn 100 million dollars of these...
What is battle born currency?
300
Nearly this percent of eligible voters cast their ballots during the Gilded Age...
What is 80 percent?
300
Civil Rights Act of 1875 supposedly guaranteed equal accommodations in public places and prohibited racial discrimination in this...
What is jury selection?
400
The Republicans whipped up enthusiasm by energetically waving this to revive memories of the civil war...
What is the bloody shirt?
400
This group renominated Grant...
What is the Republican party?
400
Congress dropped the coinage of these in 1873
What are silver dollars?
400
Strength laid in these areas...
Where is the Midwest and rural and small-town Northeast?
400
White Democrats were often called this...
What are “Redeemers”?
500
This was the opponent to Grant in the presidential election...
Who is Horatio Seymour?
500
Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company resulted in this...
What is a bust?
500
Democrats were mostly immigrant Lutherans and this other religion...
What is Roman Catholic?
500
State level legal codes of segregation were known as this...
What are the Jim Crowe Laws?