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| 306674914 | Resumption Act | lowered the number of greenbacks in circulation and started the redeeming of paper money at face value | |
| 306674915 | Split in the Republican party | Stalwarts and Half-Breeds | |
| 306674916 | G.A.R. | Grand Army of the Republic, military veteran group that supported the Republicans. Helped push many military pension bills into act. | |
| 306674917 | William Belknap | Caught swindling money by selling trinkets to the indians | |
| 306674918 | Credit mobilier scandal | The company building the transcontinental railroad sub hired to get paid double. Many people in congress and even the VP were involved. | |
| 306674919 | Whiskey Ring | People stole tax money from the government. Grant's secretary was involved. | |
| 306674920 | Boss Tweed | Ran a local political district "Tammany Hall". Used bribes, rigged elections, and other scandals to control. | |
| 306674921 | Samuel Tilden | Gained fame in prosecuting Tweed, ran against Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, barely lost | |
| 306674922 | Thomas Nast | Political cartoonist that exposed Boss Tweed. | |
| 306674923 | Liberal Republican Party | A new party intending to reform the scandals involved in the gilded age | |
| 306674924 | Horace Greenly | Nomination for the Liberal Republican Party, editor of New York Times. Democrats supported them. | |
| 306674925 | "Jubilee" Jim Fisk and Jay Gould | Almost pulled off a scheme to corner the gold market to themselves | |
| 306674926 | Horatio Seymour | Democratic candidate that ran against Ulysses S. Grant in his first term of election | |
| 306674927 | Greenback Labor Party | Supported soft money policies and more greenbacks in system | |
| 306674928 | Roscoe Conkling | Stalwart Republican's candidate | |
| 306674929 | James G. Blaine | Half-Breed's candidate | |
| 306674930 | Compromise of 1877 | End of Reconstruction, North got Rutherford B. Hayes elected (after stalemate) , and South got removal of military from south | |
| 306674931 | Causes of Panic of 1873 | Over building and bad loans | |
| 306674932 | Coinage Act of 1873 | No more silver coins | |
| 306674933 | Jim Crow Laws | Laws in south that legalized segregation in the South | |
| 306674934 | Plessy vs Ferguson | "Separate but equal" court case | |
| 306674935 | Great Railroad Strike of 1877 | Wages were cut 10% and workers went on strike. Federal troops sent in because they were interfering with the Mail system. | |
| 306674936 | US vs Wong Kim Ark 1898 | Guaranteed citizenship to all persons born in the US | |
| 306674937 | 1880 Election | Garfield is Republican candidate, Winfield Scott Hancock is Democratic candidate. | |
| 306674938 | Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | Forbade immigration of Chinese to the US | |
| 306674939 | James A. Garfield | "Dark horse candidate"-previously unknown. Assassinated in 1881, Chester A. Arthur takes over | |
| 306674940 | Pendleton Act | Jobs based upon a competitive exam and placed the Civil Service Commission in charge of appointments, "Magna Carta of civil service reform" | |
| 306674941 | Civil Service Commission | Awarded jobs based on merit | |
| 306674942 | Election of 1884 | Blaine vs Cleveland, Mudslingers, all about personality NOT policy | |
| 306674943 | Mugwumps | Reform minded Republicans that went to Democrats because they did not support James G. Blaine | |
| 306674944 | Grover Cleveland | Not very good at keeping the spoils system away. Helped bridge North-South gap by appointing 2 former confederates to his cabinet | |
| 306674945 | Tariff issue of 1888 | Cleveland wanted to lower tariff because the government was taking too much money in and had a large surplus. | |
| 306674946 | Election of 1888 | Cleveland ran for a second term (D) against Benjamin Harrison (R), Harrison won. | |
| 306674947 | Thomas "Czar" Reed | Ran House of Representatives like a dictator, first "Billion Dollar Congress". Liberal pensions to veterans, silver purchases, and McKinley Tariff | |
| 306674948 | McKinley Tariff | Rates to 48%, highest peacetime rates ever | |
| 306674949 | Populist Party | AKA People's party, sprung out of Farmer's Alliance Supported... Soft money (and silver), Graduated Income Tax, Direct Elections of Senators, Gov regulation of RRs telephones and telegraphs, referendum, shorter working day, and immigration restrictions | |
| 306674950 | Referendum | The ability for citizens to propose and pass laws themselves | |
| 306674951 | Homestead Strike | At a Carnegie Mill, steelworkers angry over pay cuts. James Frick hired to break up strike with help of Pinkertons, Federal troops break it up. | |
| 306674952 | Depression of 1893 | Budget deficit and nation's gold supply was getting dangerously low. | |
| 306674953 | Sherman Silver Purchase Act | The government had to buy silver and print paper money to pay for it, the people could then turn in the paper money for gold, eventually repealed | |
| 306674954 | William Jennings Bryan | Advocate for silver and soft money | |
| 306674955 | JP Morgan and depression of 1893 | Cleveland went to Morgan for a loan of gold | |
| 306674956 | Wilson Gorman Tariff | Change to McKinley Tariff. Would have benefited the rich. |
