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chap 19- us
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| terms | description |
|---|---|
| Gilded Age | 1877-1900, referred to the superficial glitter of the new wealth so prominently displayed in the last years of the 19th century |
| solid south | the solidly democratic south, often catholic, lutheran, or jewish, objected to temperance and prohibition crusades |
| roscoe conkling | a powerful leader of the republicans, a senator, dictated who would be appointed to lucrative jobs in the NY Customs House |
| halfbreeds | for patronage |
| mugwumps | republicans who did not play the patronage game |
| rutherford b hayes | elected in 1876, ended reconstruction, attempted to establish honest govt after grant, cut off the flow of liquor in white house, vetoed efforts to restrict chinese immigration |
| james garfield | elected in 1880, republican, ohio halfbreed, bombarded by 100, 00's of federal jobseekers, assassinated |
| thomas reid | Maine, "Czar" a sharp tongued bully, speaker of the house in 1890, instituted autocratic rule over the house |
| james g blaine | senator from maine, potential of being a great political leader, reshaped the republicans from an antislavery party into a well-organized, business oriented party, the Plumed knight, connected to railroad scandals and other corrupt dealings |
| grover cleveland | demoncratic nominee in 1884, fathered an illegitimate child, vetoed hundreds of private pension bills, signed the interstate commerce act of 1887 and the dawes act, retrieved acres from cattle ranchers and rr's, reelected |
| stalwarts | conkling's supporters |
| "rum, romanism, and rebellion" | democrat label |
| pendleton act | 1881, set up the civil servicecommission and created a system by which applicants for classified federal jobs would be selected on the basis of their scores on competitive exams |
| greenback party | supporters of paper money |
| james b weaver | greenback candidate for congress in 1878, iowa |
| crime of 1873 | congress stopped the coining of silver in the 1870's |
| bland-allison act(1878) | compromise law, passed over hayes veto in 1878, allowed limited silver coinage each month |
| billion dollar congress | budget including: Mckinley tariff of 1890, increases in monthly pensions to veterans, widows and children, sherman antitrust act, sherman silver purchase act of 1890, & a bill to protect voting rights of african americans |
| sherman silver purchase act | increased the coinage of silver, didnt satisfy farmers and miners |
| mckinley tariff (1890) | raised tax on foreign products |
| populist (people's) party | advocated unlimited coinage of silver, graduated income tax, public ownership of rr's, telegraph and telephone systems, loans and federal warehouses for farmers, eight hr day for workers |
| omaha platform | nebraska, 1892, focused on the concentration of economic power in the ands of trusts and bankers, reforms, -direct popular election of senators, enacting state laws by voters- initiatives and referendums |
| panic of 1893 | spring and summer, stock market crashed, overspeculation, rr's- bankrupt, 4 yrs, unemployment rate reached 20%, farm foreclosures |
| gold drain | the gold reserve fell to a dangerously low level bc investors traded their silver dollars for gold dollars when silver prices declined |
| coxey's army | a march to washington in 1894 by thousands of unemployed, led by jacob a coxey |
| william harvey, coin's financial school | 1894, wrote about economic lessons that seemed to offer easy answers for ending depression, told millions with his illustrated cartoons how american troubles were caused by a conspiracy of rich bankers |
| William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold" | nebraska, captured the hearts of delegates with his speech, became democrat nominee for 1896 |
| mark hanna | ex-business man, financial power behind mckinley |
| "gold bug" democrats | cleveland, conservative faction of democrats were unhappy with bryan and free silver |
| william mckinley | republicans nominee of ohio in 1896, known 4 support of a high protective tariff, considered a friends of labor, elected |
| Dingley tariff | 1897, a high tariff enacted by the republicans |
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