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APUSH 2014/2015

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Ulysses S. Grant   most popular Civil War hero; Republican; narrow cultural background; won 1868 election against Horatio Seymour  
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Horatio Seymour   Democratic nominee in election of 1868; supported by whites; lost  
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"Jubilee Jim" Fisk   the "brass" of the plot to corner the gold market in 1869 by bidding the price of gold very high so the US treasury was forced to release gold  
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Jay Gould   the "brains" of the plot to corner the gold market in 1869 by bidding the price of gold very high so the US treasury was forced to release gold  
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Thomas Nast   a cartoonist of the New York Times who exposed the Tweed Ring  
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Horace Greeley   endorsed by Democrats in the 1872 election; had unsound political judgements  
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Jay Cooke   financed the Union during the Civil War; Jay Cooke & Company  
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Roscoe Conkling   leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican party; supported Grant; swapped civil service jobs for votes  
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James G. Blaine   led Half-Breed faction of the Republican party; called for civil service reform  
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Rutherford B. Hayes   a compromise candidate chosen by the Republicans in 1876; from Ohio  
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Samuel Tilden   Democratic nominee in the election of 1876; had fame from the Tweed incident  
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James A. Garfield   Republican candidate in the election of 1880; waver of the "bloody shirt"; energetic and able; assassinated in 1881 which shocked the Republicans into reforming the spoils system  
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Chester A. Arthur   Garfield's VP who became president after the assassination; a surprising reformer; the Republican party grew to hate him  
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Winfield S. Hancock   Democratic nominee in 1880; US Army officer; notable for his leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg  
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Charles J. Guiteau   assassinated Garfield because he wanted an office position  
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Grover Cleveland   Democratic nominee in the election of 1884; reformer; revealed he had an affair with a widow which led to mudslinging and he barely won  
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Benjamin Harrison   "waving the bloody shirt", elected president in 1888; Republican; grandson of William H. Harrison  
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Thomas Reed   speaker of the house; dominated the "Billion Dollar Congress"; gave pensions and increased purchase of silver  
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William McKinley   last veteran of the civil war to be elected president in election of 1896  
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James B. Weaver   nominated by People's Party in 1892; got support from midwest and west; prominent showing in election  
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Tom Watson   People's Party leader; had early success; became a vicious racist  
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soft money   paper money; supported by poor and debtors  
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hard money   coins; supported by wealthy  
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contraction   the amount of money per capita decreased between 1870 and 1880  
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resumption   got rid of cheap paper money and replaced it with gold at face value  
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Gilded Age   term coined by Mark Twain; time period characterized by rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration; rise of big business and labor movement  
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spoils system   the system of trading civil service jobs for votes in an election  
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crop-lien system   allowed farmers to have more credit; they were allowed to use harvested crops to pay back their loans  
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pork-barrel bills   when congress votes for an unnecessary internal improvement project so a member can get more district popularity  
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populism   political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people  
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grandfather clause   an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of a policy  
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"Ohio Idea"   the idea that greenbacks (paper money) could be exchanged for gold to help farmers  
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"bloody shirt"   when a war hero gets elected into a political office  
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Tweed Ring   "Boss Tweed" employed bribery and fraud to get over $200M of NYC taxpayer money; exposed by Thomas Nast and Samuel J. Tilden  
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Crédit Mobilier   1872; Union Pacific Railroad insiders formed Crédit Mobilier Construction Company and hired themselves at inflated prices so they could earn high dividends; distributed shares of its stock to Congressmen  
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Whiskey Ring   a group that robbed the Treasury of excise tax revenues by declaring they had less money than they actually did; Grant was initially angry until his secretary was a culprit  
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Liberal Republicans   urged purification of of the administration and the end of Reconstruction  
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Panic of 1873   caused by too much growth and internal improvements; 15,000+ businesses went bankrupt; debtors and blacks were hit worst  
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Bland-Allison Act   1878; authorized the coinage of a limited amount of silver money; required the govt. to buy $2-4M worth of silver; repealed in 1900  
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Greenback Labor party   anti-monopoly ideology; active in 1870's/1880's; opposed shift from paper money back to hard money  
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Grand Army of the Republic   composed of veterans of the Union army; one of the first organized advocacy groups  
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Stalwart   faction of the Republican party; led by Roscoe Conkling; swapped civil service jobs for votes  
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Half-Breed   opposed to Stalwarts; led by James G. Blaine; urged for civil-service reform  
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Compromise of 1877   Hayes promised to show concern for the South and end Reconstruction in exchange for the Democratic acception of the fraudulent election results  
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Pendleton Act   made compulsory campaign contributions from federal employees illegal; established a civil service commission to make appointments to federal jobs based on the results of competitive examinations  
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Mugwumps   Republicans who voted Democratic for their dislike of James G. Blaine  
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Plessy vs. Ferguson   1896; "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment  
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Jim Crow   developed in the South; laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas; blacks had unequal opportunities in education, jobs, etc  
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Chinese Exclusion Act   1882; prohibited all further Chinese immigration into the US until 1943  
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US vs. Wong Kim   1898; ruled that the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship to everyone born in the US  
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Billion-Dollar Congress   led by Harrison; known for its lavish spending; passed many acts  
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People's Party   emerged in 1892; demanded inflation, a lowered income tax, more govt ownership, one-term limit, direct election, shorter workday, immigration restrictions  
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act   1898; required that the govt buy twice as much silver; added to the amount of money in circulation; threatened to undermine gold reserves  
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McKinley Tariff   boosted rates to their highest peace-time level ever; farmers had no choice but to buy expensive manufactured goods and sell their own into unprotected markets; led to unhappy farmers and Republicans lost their majority in Congress  
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