bowser AH chapt 8 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
person in charge of a political machine | Political boss |
The reason political machines were created | growing populations, need for public services |
these people were often loyal supporters of political machines | immigrants |
a way a political machine gained more votes | election fraud |
Famous Democratic political machine in NY that would meet immigrants at Ellis Island | Tammany Hall |
The boss that worked out of Tammany Hall during its peak | William Marcy Tweed |
Political cartoonist that exposed the corruption in Tammany Hall | Thomas Nast |
A well liked boss in Kansas City | James Pendergast |
Boss in Wash.DC that financed expanded sewer and water systems, paved streets | Alexander Shepard |
Tammany Hall Boss that used "honest graft" to defend machine's actions | George Washington Plunkitt |
dealt with both Credit Mobilier and Whiskey ring scandals | Ulysses S. Grant |
refused to participate in mudslinging during his campaign | Grover Cleveland |
weakened Cleveland's reform efforts by re-implementing the spoils system | Benjamin Harrison |
Assassinated because Charles Guiteau thought that this would stop civil service reform | James A Garfield |
Garfield's vice president that was sympathetic to the reform efforts | Chester A Arthur |
Farmers organized this because of over supply, low prices and increasing debt | National Grange |
because of this system greenbacks were no longer redeemable for silver | Gold standard |
The level of government that the supreme court ruled could regulate interstate commerce | National/Federal |
The Grange's main purpose was to regulate this | interstate Commerce |
Challenged William McKinley for Pres. in 1896. also free silver supporter | William Jennings Bryan |
The acquisition of money or political power through illegal or dishonest means | graft |
Republicans that supported democrat Grover Cleveland in 1896 presidential campaign | mugwumps |
coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley in their book by the same name. referred to corruption in politics of the age | Gilded Age |
grange members formed these so they could pool their resources in order to buy and sell goods | cooperatives |
taxing those that have higher earnings at a higher rate | graduated income tax |
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