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| 5326954714 | Patronage | Granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support. | 0 | |
| 5326956764 | Garfield's Assassination | Charles Guiteau shoots him hoping to aid the stalwarts, but it backfires because Chester Arthur resolves to follow what the half breeds wanted and reform. | 1 | |
| 5326956765 | Charles Guiteau | Assassinated President James to make civil service reform a reality. He shot Garfield because he believed that the Republican Party had not fulfilled its promise to give him a government job. | 2 | |
| 5326954715 | Pendleton Act | 1883 law that created a Civil Service Commission and stated that federal employees could not be required to contribute to campaign funds nor be fired for political reasons. | 3 | |
| 5326954716 | Roscoe Conkling | A politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He was the leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party. | 4 | |
| 5326984259 | James Blaine | Blaine hoped to reduce tariff rate, but goal of cooperation between the Pan-American Union happened and still exists today. | 5 | |
| 5326986354 | Half-Breeds | Favored tariff reform and social reform, major issues from the Democratic and Republican parties. They did not seem to be dedicated members of either party. | 6 | |
| 5326986355 | McKinley Tariff | 1890 tariff that raised protective tariff levels by nearly 50%, making them the highest tariffs on imports in the United States history. | 7 | |
| 5326984260 | Laissez-faire | Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs. | 8 | |
| 5326984261 | Individualism | Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications. | 9 | |
| 5327015458 | Horatio Alger | 19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. | 10 | |
| 5327017967 | Social Darwinism | A social theory which states that the level a person rises to in society and wealth is determined by their genetic background. | 11 | |
| 5327017968 | Mugwumps | A group of renegade Republicans who supported 1884 Democratic presidential nominee Grover Cleveland instead of their party's nominee, James G. Blaine. | 12 | |
| 5327015459 | Literacy tests | Method used to deny African-Americans the vote in the South that tested a person's ability to read and write - they were done very unfairly so even though most African-Americans could read and write by the 1950's they still failed. | 13 | |
| 5327015460 | Secret ballots | It gave every voter a private vote. | 14 | |
| 5327052338 | Women's Christian Temperance | This organization was dedicated to the idea of the 18th Amendment - the Amendment that banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol. | 15 | |
| 5327055272 | Union gerrymandering | 16 | ||
| 5327052339 | Redeemers | Largely former slave owners who were the bitterest opponents of the Republican program in the South. Staged a major counterrevolution to "redeem" the south by taking back southern state governments. Their foundation rested on the idea of racism and white supremacy. Redeemer governments waged and aggressive assault on African Americans. | 17 | |
| 5327052340 | Home Rule | Allows cities to write their own charters, choose their own type of government, and manage their own affairs. | 18 | |
| 5327052341 | The Colored Farmer's Alliance | Educated colored members on new farming techniques. | 19 | |
| 5327084134 | Populists | People who hold liberal views on economic matters and conservative ones on social matters. The prefer a strong government that will reduce economic inequality, regulate businesses, and impose stricter social and criminal sanctions. | 20 | |
| 5327086515 | Jim Crow | Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights. | 21 | |
| 5327086516 | Plessy v Ferguson 1896 | Ruled that segregation was constitutional. Established the idea "separate but equal" was acceptable. | 22 | |
| 5327084135 | Williams v Mississippi 1898 | The Mississippi supreme court ruled that poll taxes and literacy tests, which took away blacks' right to vote (a practice known as "disenfranchisement"), were legal. | 23 | |
| 5327084136 | Ida B. Wells | African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcars or shop in white owned stores. | 24 | |
| 5327110220 | Panic of 1893 | Serious economic depression beginning in 1893. Began due to rail road companies over-extending themselves, causing bank failures. Was the worst economic collapse in the history of the country until that point, and, some say, as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s. | 25 | |
| 5327110221 | Farmer's Alliance of the Northwest | The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers. | 26 | |
| 5327110222 | National Farmers Alliance | Ask for sub-treasury, government stabilize farm prices by being up surplus and then selling to make a profit, beginning of idea that farmers control the farm prices. policy goals of this organization included more readily available farm credits and federal regulation of the railroads. | 27 | |
| 5327110223 | Sub-treasury system | Set up in the 1840s for the retaining of government funds in the Treasury and its sub treasuries(state banks) independently of national banking and financial systems. | 28 | |
| 5327113605 | Mary Elizabeth Lease | Known as "Mary Yellin'" and "the Kansas Pythoness," she made about 160 speeches in 1890. She criticized Wall Street and the wealthy, and cried that Kansans should raise "less corn and more hell." | 29 | |
| 5327147865 | Free Silver | Political issue involving the unlimited coinage of silver, supported by farmers and William Jennings Bryan. | 30 | |
| 5327150443 | Bi-metallic Standard | Silverite - Favored the unlimited coining of silver, farmers. One dollar dissolving of silver causes. | 31 | |
| 5327150444 | Bland Allison Act 1878 | Requires the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars. Vetoed by President Hayes but the veto was overruled. Helped restore bimetallism with gold and silver both supporting the currency. | 32 | |
| 5327147866 | Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1890 | 1890 - Directed the Treasury to buy even larger amounts of silver that the Bland-Allison Act and at inflated prices. The introduction of large quantities of overvalued silver into the economy lead to a run on the federal gold reserves, leading to the Panic of 1893. Repealed in 1893. | 33 | |
| 5327147867 | Coxey's Army | Unemployed workers marched from Ohio to Washington to draw attention to the plight of workers and to ask for government relief. | 34 | |
| 5327191923 | William Jennings Bryan | United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925). | 35 | |
| 5327194770 | Cross of Gold Speech | An impassioned address by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic Convention, in which he attacked the "gold bugs" who insisted that U.S. currency be backed only with gold. | 36 | |
| 5327191924 | Mark Hanna | An industrialist and Republican politician from Ohio. The campaign manager of McKinley in the 1896, in what is considered the forerunner of the modern political campaign, and subsequently became one of the most powerful members of the U.S. Senate. | 37 | |
| 5327191925 | The Election of 1896 | Is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign. | 38 |
