APUSH chapter twenty-three vocabulary.
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| 1968739907 | Waving the Bloody Shirt | This was the name for the action of Republicans of reviving bloody images of the war in order to try to drum up support for their candidate for the 1868 election, Ulysses S. Grant. | 0 | |
| 1968739908 | Jim Fisk | This millionaire was the partner of Jay Gould, and he provided the brass to their partnership. They concocted a plot to conquer the gold market by planning to get Grant to refrain from selling gold from the treasury. | 1 | |
| 1968739909 | Jay Gould | This millionaire was the partner of Jim Fisk, and he provided the brains to their partnership. They concocted a plot to conquer the gold market by planning to get Grant to refrain from selling gold from the treasury. | 2 | |
| 1968739910 | William Marcy "Boss" Tweed | This man ran the Tweed Ring in New York City which showed the corruption of the time period in his actions of bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections to milk as much as 200 million dollars from NYC. | 3 | |
| 1968739911 | Thomas Nast | This gifted cartoonist pilloried Tweed mercilessly after he rejected a heavy bribe to desist. Tweed objected to the pictures largely because his illiterate followers could not help but see them and be influenced by them. | 4 | |
| 1968739912 | Credit Mobilier | This scandal erupted in 1872 and involved followers creating a false company and then hiring themselves at vastly inflated prices to work on the railroad. This was the first scandal which really hurt Grant and the Congress. | 5 | |
| 1968739913 | Whiskey ring | This ring robbed the Treasury of millions in excise-tax revenues from 1874-75 in a long scandal which included Grant actually trying to help to exonerate the thieves, furthering poor public view of scandal and corruption in the government. | 6 | |
| 1968739914 | Liberal republicans | This new category of political party was created by the rising disgust for Grantism, and was formed of reform-minded citizens whose slogan was "Turn the Rascals Out", and muffed their chance of nomination by nominating Horace Greeley for the presidency, who, although a good candidate, was too erratic to be elected. | 7 | |
| 1968739915 | Horace Greeley | This man was the Liberal Republican's candidate and was too erratic and eccentric to be nominated. | 8 | |
| 1968739916 | General Amnesty Act | Passed so that ex-Confederates could again vote and hold seats in the government. The few that were denied the privilege of this act were Confederate leaders or those who committed egregious crimes during the Civil War. | 9 | |
| 1968739917 | Resumption Act | This act pledged the government to the further withdrawal of greenbacks from circulation and to the redemption of all paper currency in gold at face value, beginning in 1879. | 10 | |
| 1968739918 | Crime of '73 | This was assailed by debtors and westerners and silver-mining states, and had to do with the forced decrease in silver prices. | 11 | |
| 1968739919 | Greenback Labor Party | This was spawned by the Republican hard-money policy and polled over a million votes and elected fourteen members in Congress, proving the contest over monetary policy was ongoing. | 12 | |
| 1968739920 | Grand Army of the Republican (GAR) | An important contributor to Republican ballots, this group was a politically potent fraternal organization of several hundred thousand Union veterans of the Civil War. | 13 | |
| 1968739921 | Stalwarts, Senator Roscoe Conkling | This faction of Republicans embraced the time-honored system of swapping civil-service jobs for votes. They were opposed by the Half-Breeds. | 14 | |
| 1968739922 | Half-Breeds, Senator James G. Blaine | These men opposed the Stalwarts believed that the president shouldn't be able to dish out civil-service jobs after he got elected, but that a specific Civil Service committee should decide who got the jobs. | 15 | |
| 1968739923 | Hayes vs. Tilden, 1876 | Hayes was the Republican candidate while Tilden was the Democratic candidate, and the election between them was disputed. | 16 | |
| 1968739924 | Compromise of 1877 | This compromise broke the deadlock of the election of 1876 through the Electoral Count Act. | 17 | |
| 2137160836 | Jim Crow laws | These were laws enacted by the South largely in the years 1875 to 1900, which established a segregated system for blacks and whites, and was founded on the basis that "separate but equal" was constitutional (as established in the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896). | 18 | |
| 2137160837 | Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | This Supreme Court decision is very well known and essentially stated that 'separate, but equal' facilities were legal under the Constitution. This decision helped to rivet Jim Crow laws as legal. | 19 | |
| 2137160838 | Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 | This was passed after white and Irish laborers grew annoyed with Chinese laborers taking what they viewed as their jobs. They managed to get a law passed that essentially said that Chinese were not allowed into the country. This would continue until 1943, when the U.S. allied with the Chinese during World War II. | 20 | |
| 2137160839 | James Garfield | This man was elected in 1880 as the Republican candidate. Unfortunately, he got caught up in a political spat between the Half-Breeds and Stalwarts only a few weeks after his election, and then before it could be resolved, he was shot in the back by Charles Guiteau. He lived for eleven weeks in extreme pain before he finally died at the end of 1881. He was replaced by Chester Arthur, his Stalwart vice president. | 21 | |
| 2137160840 | Charles Guiteau | This is the mentally deranged man who shot James Garfield. He was a Stalwart, and believed that when Arthur took over after Garfield died, his view of civil service appointments would win out. | 22 | |
| 2137160841 | Chester Arthur | This man was James Garfield's vice president, and a ardent Stalwart supporter. He took over after Garfield was shot by Guiteau, and actually turned out to be a good stand-in for Garfield. He didn't cave to the Stalwarts but the Republicans were ungrateful and he was not nominated for a second term. | 23 | |
| 2137160842 | Pendleton Act, 1883 | This made compulsory donations to campaigns illegal, and established the Civil Service Commission to appoint federal jobs. This was largely a result of what happened to Garfield, and spearheaded by Chester Arthur. | 24 | |
| 2137160843 | Mugwumps, 1884 | These were the Republicans who ran to the Democratic party because they didn't like the Republican nomination in 1884 of James G. Blaine. | 25 | |
| 2137160844 | Thomas B. Reed | He became the leader of the House in 1888 when the Republicans took the White House back. He was a strict and eloquent speaker and very harsh. He helped to raise taxes to their highest peacetime rate in 1890 with the McKinley Tariff Act, but then he was kicked out of office with 1890 elections due to these issues. | 26 | |
| 2137160845 | McKinley Tariff Act, 1890 | This was established by the Republican-led house in 1890 by Thomas B. Reed, and raised tariff rates to the highest peacetime rate ever, 48.4% on all dutiable goods. | 27 | |
| 2137160846 | Populists | This third party rose up in 1892 and created a good showing in the 1892 election. They were led mostly by farmers who didn't appreciate the high tariff rates and their lack of protection in the international markets. | 28 | |
| 2137160847 | Homestead Steel Strike, 1892 | This strike represented the great increase in strikes, and was a result of a great increase in steel prices but drop in workers' wages. The military had to be brought in to put it down. | 29 | |
| 2137160848 | Depression of 1893 | This depression was the worst one in the 19th century and occurred just as Cleveland took office, and ended just as he left office. The government ended up having to be bailed out by a big bank in NYC, which a lot of people hated, but was good for America's economy. | 30 | |
| 2137160849 | Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894 | In this the Democrats tried to lower tariffs. Cleveland allowed the bill, mainly because it didn't much hurt the tariff rates, but it annoyed him. This also kind of angered American people (?) and it helped to drive the Democrats out of office during the next Congressional election, putting Republicans once more back in power. | 31 |
