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GildedPolitics
Politics in the Gilded Age
Question | Answer |
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Republicans who favored tariff reform and social reform but stayed with the Republican party | Half-Breeds |
Party that tried to ally farmers and labor; advocated free coinage of silver; eventually absorbed by Democrats | Populist |
Party founded in 1878 that fought for increased monetary circulation through issuing more paper currency; they also wanted benefits for labor such as shorter working hours. | Greenback - Labor Party |
Administered exams to determine a merit basis for appointees to federal offices | Civil Service Commission |
Advocated free silver and ran as both a Populist and a Democrat; gave popular speech at the Democratic convention in 1896; youngest man to run for president | William Jennings Bryan |
Insult that claimed that Democrats were the party of Irish Catholic immigrants | Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion |
Law that said officeholders would be assessed on a merit basis and established a Civil Service Commission to regulate hiring for the executive branch | Pendleton Act |
Leader of the Stalwarts | Roscoe Conkling |
Conservative branch of the Republican party who were opposed to civil service reform | Stalwarts |
Republicans who changed their vote during the 1884 election to vote for Cleveland because they preferred Cleveland's position on reforms | Mugwumps |
Republican leader who masterminded McKinley's 1896 | Mark Hanna |
Political boss and head of Tammany Hall; he believed in "honest graft." | William Tweed |
Political machine that controlled New | Tammany Hall |
Elected in 1880 | James Garfield |
Became president upon Garfield's assassination | Chester Arthur |
Elected in 1884 | Grover Cleveland |
Elected in 1888 | Benjamin Harrison |
Elected in 1892 | Grover Cleveland |
Elected in 1896 | William McKinley |