Metals and Elections

Question 1

His Fraudulency

Answer 1

President Hayes, nicknamed this because of the disputed 1876 election that had him elevated to presidency

Question 2

Half Breeds and Stalwarts

Answer 2

2 groups competing for control of the Republican Party and threatening to split it; Conkling led Stalwarts and Blaine led Half Breeds

Question 3

Conkling

Answer 3

Leader of the Stalwarts who was close ally to Arthur

Question 4

Dark Horse

Answer 4

a little known political candidate

Question 5

James Garfield

Answer 5

A veteran congressman from Ohio and half breed who was nominated by the republicans for president in 1880

Question 6

Chester Arthur

Answer 6

a stalwart and conkling henchman who was nominated for the republicans for vice president in 1880

Question 7

Pendleton Act

Answer 7

Passed by congress in 1883 which required that some federal jobs be filled by competitive written examination rather than by patronage

Question 8

James Blaine

Answer 8

Leader of the half breeds who lost to Cleveland in election of 1884

Question 9

Mugwumps

Answer 9

a group of disgruntled liberal republicans who said they would bolt the party to support an honest democrat

Question 10

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 10

prevents the artificial raising of prices by restriction of trade or supply

Question 11

McKinley Act

Answer 11

was designed to protest domestic industries by placing a tariff on imported goods

Question 12

James Weaver

Answer 12

peoples party candidate

Question 13

Wilson Gorman Tariff

Answer 13

imposed a 2% income tax

Question 14

Granger Laws

Answer 14

regulates rising far prices of railroad and grain companies

Question 15

Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 15

required railroads to publish rate schedules enforced by courts and required that rates must be “reasonable and just”

Question 16

Populism

Answer 16

power of regular people in right to control government

Question 17

The Grange

Answer 17

encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well being of the community

Question 18

Oliver Kelly

Answer 18

Minor agriculture department official that founded the national grange

Question 19

Farmers Declaration of Independence

Answer 19

vowed to use all lawful & peaceful means to free themselves from the tyranny of monopoly

Question 20

Farmers Alliance

Answer 20

wanted a sense of mutual, neighborly responsibility that would enable farmers to resist oppressive forces

Question 21

Mary Lease

Answer 21

Fiery populist orator that urged farmers to raise less corn and more hell in an alliance

Question 22

Ocala Demands

Answer 22

a party platform for the souther and northwestern alliance

Question 23

John Watson

Answer 23

only southern congressmen to identify with the alliance from Georgia

Question 24

Free Silver

Answer 24

Idea permitting silver to become basis of currency to expand money supply

Question 25

Ignatius Donnely

Answer 25

wrote Caesar’s Column that discussed that industrial society appears to be a “wretched failure” to “the great mass of mankind

Question 26

Omaha Platform 1892

Answer 26

Set the basic tenets of the populist party

Question 27

Coxey Army

Answer 27

Coxey organized a group of unemployed people to the capital to grant their demands to grant jobs to the unemployed and public work programs

Question 28

Bimetallism

Answer 28

a situation in which the US recognized gold and silver as the basis for the dollar

Question 29

Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1893

Answer 29

required the government to purchase silver and pay for it in gold, caused gold reserves to weaken

Question 30

William Harvey’s Coin Financial School

Answer 30

published in 1894 became one of the great bestsellers of its age. Tells of a fictional Professor Coin’s imaginary school of finance and consisted of his lectures and dialogues.

Question 31

Marcus Hanna

Answer 31

an Ohio boss who was led Republican party leaders, chose McKinkey as the party’s presidential candidate who later became president.

Question 32

Williams Jennings Bryan

Answer 32

Congressman from Nebraska, delivered one of the most famous political speeches in american history in support of free silver, ran for 1896 election

Question 33

Cross of Gold Speech

Answer 33

Bryan’s speech, stated that they would fight the gold standard, led to his nomination for president of the fifth ballot

Question 34

Fusion

Answer 34

the merging of the populists and democrats, many believed that this would destroy the populists party

Question 35

Gold Standard Act 1900

Answer 35

confirmed the nations commitment to the gold standard by assigning a specific gold value to the dollar and required all currency issued by the US to that value

Question 36

Dingley Tariff

Answer 36

Highest protected tariff in American History