chapter 17

Question 1

Which republicans favored silver/gold?

Answer 1

Western miners/big business owners

Question 2

Carl Schurz

Answer 2

Part of “Mugwumps” (repub), who believed that only righteous people like the should rule

Question 3

James G. Blaine

Answer 3

Led “half breeds”; blatantly pursued influence like conkling

Question 4

Roscoe Conkling

Answer 4

Used spoils system; led “Stalwarts” (branch of repub)

Question 5

“Police power”

Answer 5

The power of state/local governments to police their population for welfare

Question 6

Munn v Illinois

Answer 6

1877; States try to limit freight and storage costs; Supreme court determines that grain storage acts in public interest and is subject to regulation

Question 7

Wabash case

Answer 7

1886; only congress can limit interstate rates

Question 8

Interstate commerce act

Answer 8

1887; prohibited rate discrimmination and created ICC (weak)

Question 9

Grand army of the republic

Answer 9

allied with republicans to cajole government into providing 8 billions of pensions for veterans

Question 10

President garfield’s assassination

Answer 10

1881; job seeker assassinated him; increased alarm over spoils

Question 11

Pendleton civil service act

Answer 11

1882; Civil service commission to oversee competitive examinations for gov positions

Question 12

Republican and democratic opinion on tariffs

Answer 12

Repub: want protection
Demo: it hurts farmers and consumers

Question 13

Gold strikes and silver strikes

Answer 13

Gold strike came first and made people hoard silver; silver strike then came and people wanted to redeem silver at original price

Question 14

Bland Allison Act

Answer 14

1878; authorized US gov to buy silver

Question 15

Sherman silver purchase act

Answer 15

1890; government buys more silver (specified by weight rather than dollars)

Question 16

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 16

Repub; national harmony; opposed racial violence; battled conkling; believed chinese/natives shouldn’t be ignored

Question 17

James. A. Garfield

Answer 17

Repub; hoped to reduce tariffs and trade with latin America; assassinated

Question 18

Chester A. Arthur

Answer 18

Signed pendleton; used veto against bills that benefitted railroads

Question 19

Cleveland

Answer 19

Demo, Won against blaine; “Ma Ma Where’s my pa” guy; sent troops in pullman in second term after Harrison

Question 20

Harrison

Answer 20

Repub (1888); appointed roosevelt as civil service commissioner

Question 21

Dependents’ Pension act of 1890

Answer 21

Pensions for disabled veterans

Question 22

“Billion dollar congress”

Answer 22

Federal budget 1B+ for first time; republicans unseated by voters

Question 23

US v Reese

Answer 23

SC ruled that congress has no control over local and state elections other than what is stated in the 15th

Question 24

Mississippi Plan

Answer 24

1890s; poll taxes, present tax receipt, and literacy test

Question 25

Grandfather clause

Answer 25

if your grandfather/father can vote before 1867, you are exempt from tests (no black basically)

Question 26

Civil rights act

Answer 26

1875; prohibited segregation

Question 27

Civil rights cases

Answer 27

overturned civil rights act

Question 28

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 28

1896; 1/8 African still African

Question 29

Jim Crow laws

Answer 29

Segregation laws

Question 30

John Hope

Answer 30

university Professor; Supported Black people to become their own employers and rise in status by education

Question 31

WCTU

Answer 31

Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Frances Willard; fought for temperance and suffrage for white woman

Question 32

NWSA

Answer 32

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Athony less radical (moderate suffragists), Stanton wanted more like birth control laws

Question 33

AWSA

Answer 33

Lucy Stone; worked mostly at states level

Question 34

NAWSA

Answer 34

merged between NWSA and AWSA; Stanton as first president

Question 35

Women suffrage Ws 1870-1910

Answer 35

11 western states gave women voting rights

Question 36

National Grange of the Patrons of HUsbandry

Answer 36

Farmer alliances to improve conditions and relive loneliness

Question 37

Greenback labor party

Answer 37

Expand money supply by keeping civil war greenbacks in circulation; fell apart after Wabash case (states cannot regulate interstate)

Question 38

White hats

Answer 38

Tried to protect ancestral (mexican) land from Anglo expansion

Question 39

Farmer Alliances

Answer 39

Farmer cooperatives; subtreasury plan; one in plains one in south + separate black organization

Question 40

Subtreasury plan

Answer 40

The corp storage + government provide low interest loans to farmers to buy land

Question 41

James B Weaver

Answer 41

Populist candidate (originally greenback candidate) who won 8% (very much)

Question 42

Gold shortage

Answer 42

Silver strike prompted people to redeem for gold; national reserve dropped to dangerous levels; J. P. Morgan sold gold for bonds.

Question 43

Coxey's Army

Answer 43

Wanted federal release of money to pay debters to do public projects; marched on Washington

Question 44

Henry M. Teller

Answer 44

Silver repub who was rejected; repub gold standard by the time of McKingly

Question 45

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 45

Silver demo candidate

Question 46

McKingly

Answer 46

Gold Standard act (1990), high tariffs, imperalistic ideals in latin america and pacific