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Politics-Gilded Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was Boss Tweed? | William Marcy Tweed, democrat, NYC |
| How did Boss Tweed get votes? | Helped out immigrants in exchange for them voting for his politicians |
| How did Boss Tweed steal money? | kickbacks |
| What organization did Boss Tweed run? | Tammany Hall - political machine ran by dems- office building that helped immigrants |
| Who was Thomas Nast? | republican artist that drew cartoons of Tweed as a monster/monarch |
| jobs included in civil service reform | gov jobs except military |
| spoils system | winning party gives jobs to loyal supporters (usually not qualified) |
| What was the NYC Customs House | place where tariffs collected |
| Who ran the NYC Customs House? | Roscoe Conkling, republican boss, dressed like the joker |
| Who was Roscoe Conkling's right hand man in charge of the NYC Customs House? | Chester Arthur |
| Issue at NYC Customs House | workers can't count + workers kickback salary to Conkling's Campaign |
| Stalwarts | Conkling supporters, love spoils system & don't want change |
| Half-breeds | led by James G Blaine, open to change but still like spoils system |
| What happens to Chester Arthur? | 1. Rutherford B Hayes fires him 2. James A Garfield makes him VP 3. Charles Guiteau shoots Garfield 4. Arthur becomes pres |
| Effect of James Garfield assassination | Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883) - exam has to be taken to get a gov job, only applies to 12% of gov jobs, failure |
| Interstate Commerce Act (1887) | regulate railroads |
| Interstate Commerce Commission | made up of railroad owners, supposed to oversee railroads but rarely did |
| Does the Supreme court usually side with ICC or railroads? | 15 out 16 court cases in favor of railroads |
| Sherman Anti Trust Act (1890) | no monopolies but doesn't actually define what a monopoly is, too vague, $5000 fine, law taken advantage of and use to break up strikes - Pullman Strike |
| Tariffs | raises price on imported good so ppl buy American one instead |
| Why were tariffs important | main source of revenue for federal gov |
| What type of tariff do dems like? | low bc they fear tariff retaliation from other countries |
| What type of tariff do repubs like? | high to protect big business |
| Negative impact of tariffs? | takes away competition |
| Limit money supply key points | 1. only produce amount of currency backed by gold 2. fear inflation 3. republicans 4. big business |
| Expand money supply key points | 1. make more currency than amount of gold 2. make money backed by silver 3. farmers in debt |
| Coxey's Army (1894) | 1. led by Jacob Coxey 2. marched Ohio to Washington 3. protestors are unemployed 4. want gov to help them out of depressoin 5. Coxey arrested instead |
| Who was William Jennings Bryan | democrat/populist, presidential candidate against William McKinley but lost, leader of Free Silver Movement, gave "Cross of Gold Speech, |
| Election of 1896 | 1. Bryan vs McKinley 2. McKinley wins 3. high voter turnout (80-95%) |
| Leadership key points | 1. civil war vets 2. didn't campaign 3. handouts (pensions) given to civil war vets 4. usually parties had similar ideologies |
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