Chapter 23 Flashcards
In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
owed his victory to the votes of former slaves
In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by “waving the bloody shirt” were reminding voters
that the Republican party had fought and won the Civil War
New York’s notoriously corrupt Boss Tweed was finally jailed under the pressure of
New York Times exposes and the cartoons of Thomas Nast
The Credit Mobilier scandal invovled
railroad construction kickbacks
As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873, debtors strongly advocated
inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency
During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans
had few significant policy differences
One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was
sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties
The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in
the white South and big-city immigrant machines
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South
In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
“separate but equal” facilities were constitutional
The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
called Jim Crow laws
The national railroad strike of 1877 started when
the four largest railroads cut salaries by 10 percent
Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in
the use of federal troops during stikes
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
passed a new law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America
President James A. Garfield was assissinated
by a deranged, disappointed office seeker
