Gilded Age
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| People who make money by being dishonest. | show 🗑
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| What tactics did Robber Barons use to get their way? | show 🗑
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| show | Gilded Age
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| Which president was surrounded by dishonest and corrupt people who took advantage of their positions to cheat and steal? | show 🗑
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| Name the scandal where railroad managers invented a fake company then bribed Congress for funds? | show 🗑
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| Why was the general public so upset at Congress? | show 🗑
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| show | Patronage
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| show | Political Machines
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| show | William Boss Tweed
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| show | Mugwumps
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| What system brought an end to patronage? | show 🗑
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| Why was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act not effective at limiting the power of the trusts? | show 🗑
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| On what did the value of money depend? | show 🗑
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| What gave Populists a huge boost? | show 🗑
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| show | William Jennings Bryan
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| show | lavish
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| A company that is run by a group of people who are as one person. | show 🗑
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| show | scoundrel
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| show | exclusive
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| A legal, written agreement. | show 🗑
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| show | Illegal means.
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| show | bribe
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| Many of these took place during the time that Grant was president. | show 🗑
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| Some people took advantage of the serious problems in cities in order to gain? | show 🗑
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| show | corruption
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| In the 1870s dishonest political bosses did what to control many important American cities? | show 🗑
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| A weakness in a law that makes it ineffective. | show 🗑
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| To provide the money for | show 🗑
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| show | condemn
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| show | conspiracy
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| A person who supports a cause. | show 🗑
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| This gave government jobs to people with the best political connections. | show 🗑
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| show | Civil Service Act
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| What group treated their competitors unfairly? | show 🗑
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| This act stopped many of the unfair business practices used by the railroads. | show 🗑
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| What two groups took control of most businesses? | show 🗑
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| Wide-ranging | show 🗑
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| To put together for a common use or a special purpose? | show 🗑
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| show | platform
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| A supply of something for later use. | show 🗑
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| show | farmers
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| show | to lower the cost of farming
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| show | broke their promises
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| show | Populist
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| Why did the Populists lose the election? | show 🗑
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