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Important Acts
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Presidents
Culture Part 1
Miscellaneous 1
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This act established a line of succession to the presidency in the event of the Vice President's death
What is the Presidential Succession Act?
100
To make something seem better than it is; gold-covered
What is gilded?
100
The patron saint of the Republican Party
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
Studies that emphasized Greek and Roman thought
What is fixed curricula
100
The greedy politician who controlled New York's Democratic Machine
Who is William Tweed
200
This act provided land grants for state universities.
What is the Morrill Act of 1872
200
people who follow other's orders
What are underlings?
200
This President was taken advantage of by his family, friends, and Cabinet members
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
200
This is the name given to the detailed and ornate decorations on the outside of Victorian homes
What is gingerbread
200
This is referred to as the "Magna Carta of civil service reform"
What is the Pendleton Act
300
This act placed 14,000 jobs under the control of the Civil Service Commission.
What is the Pendleton Act?
300
the use of language to convince others; public speaking
What is rhetoric?
300
Only President to hold two non-consecutive terms in office
Who is Grover Cleveland
300
This school began as a summer program to educate Sunday School teachers
What is the Chautauqua Institute
300
Texas A&M and Penn State are examples of this type of school.
What is a land-grant school
400
This act provided these states admission to the union: North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
intelligent or intellectual
What is highbrow?
400
He refused to sign legislation with riders.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
400
An American artist who was influenced by a style of painting called impressionism
Who is Mary Cassatt
400
The character created by Finley Peter Dunne
Who is Mr. Dooley
500
Grover Cleveland won repeal of this act, which strengthened presidential independence
What is the Tenure of Office Act
500
disrespectful
What is irreverant?
500
He favored attempts to freely spend the treasury surplus under the "Billion Dollar Congress"
Who is Benjamin Harrison
500
This type of writing strove to capture the romance of vanishing rural traditions
What is local-color writing
500
The name of the Republican group that Garfield's murderer belonged to
What are the Stalwarts