APUSH Quiz Gilded Age Flashcards
What does waving the bloody shirt mean?
Using Civil War memories to gain support for presidents
Who did the Republicans nominate by waving the bloody shirt?
Ulysesses S Grant who had no political experience
Why were the Democrats disorganized?
only denounce military Reconstruction and couldnt agree on anything else
Who won the election of 1868?
Grant because they waved the bloody shirt and used his popularitty to elect him
Who was the democrat candidate for the election of 1868?
Horatio Seymour
didnt accept a redemptin of greenbacks for maxium value platform and thus doomed his party
What happened during the era of good stealings?
population mushroomed due to incoming immigration
politics became very corrupt
How was politics becoming corrupt?
Railroad promoters cheated gullible customer
Stock market investors were a cancer in the public eye
Too many judges nd legislators put their power up for hire
What were the two notorious millionaires
Jim Fisk
Jay Gould
What was Jim Fisk and Jay Gould plan?
1869
they wanted to corner the gold market that would only work if the treasury stopped selling gold
They worked through President Grant and his brother in law
their plan failed when the treasurey sold gold
What was the Tweed Ring?
employed bribery, graft, and fake elections to cheat the city out of 200 million $
What was another name for Tweed Ring?
Tammany Hall
Who led Tweed Ring?
William Tweed
How was Tweed caught?
New York Times secured evidence on his misdeeds, and even though he was defended by Tilden, he was imprisioned
Who was a political crtoonist who constantly drew against Tammany’s corruption?
Thomas Nast
What did Grant fail to see?
Corruption
his friends wanted offices
cabinet was corrupt (except secretary of state Henry Fish)
and his in laws (Dents) were terrible
What was the name of the railroad company that paid itself huge sums of money for small construction?
Credit Mobilier
What happened to the Credit Mobilier?
NY newspaper company busted it
2 members of Congress were censored (the company gave some stock to the congressmen)
VP was shown to have taken 20 shares of stock
In 1875, who robbed the treasury of millions of dollar?
Wiskey Ring
When Grant’s own private secretary was shown to be one of the criminals, what statement did Grant retract?
Let no guilty man escape
Who was shown to have pocketed some $24,000 by selling junk to indians?
Secretary of War William Belknap
By 1872, a power wave of what was building?
disgust at Grant’s administration building despite the worst of scandels not being revealed yet
What did reformers organize during the wave of disgust townrds Grant’s admnistraion building?
Liberal Republican Party
Nominated Horace Greeley
Who also supported Greeley even though he had blasted him in his newspaper (the NY Tribune)?
Democratic
How did Greeley please the Democrats?
he called for a clasping of hands between the north and the south and an end to reconstruction
