part of the quiz tomorrow
btw these are also auto-defined so I'm sorry if they are vague or confusing
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| 1151822964 | Credit Mobilier Affair | Insiders gave stock to influential members of Congress to avoid investigation of the profits they were making from government subsidies for building the Transcontinental Railroad. Scandal under Grant's presidency | 1 | |
| 1151822965 | Whiskey Ring | During the Grant administration, a group of officials were importing whiskey and using their offices to avoid paying the taxes on it, cheating the treasury out of millions of dollars. | 2 | |
| 1151822966 | Tweed Ring | A group of people in New York City who worked with and for Burly "Boss" Tweed. He was a crooked politician and money maker. The ring supported all of his deeds. The New York Times finally found evidence to jail Tweed. Without Tweed the ring did not last. These people, the "Bosses" of the political machines, were very common in America for that time | 3 | |
| 1151822967 | Liberal Republicans | Party formed in 1872 (split from the ranks of the Republican Party) which argued that the Reconstruction task was complete and should be set aside. Significantly dampered further Reconstructionist efforts. | 4 | |
| 1151822968 | "Waving the Bloody Shirt" | An expression used as a vote getting stratagem by the Republicans during the election of 1876 to offset charges of corruption by blaming the Civil War on the Democrats. | 5 | |
| 1151822969 | Ulysses Grant | an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. The Credit Mobilier Affair was during his presidency. | 6 | |
| 1151822970 | Jay Gould | United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892) | 7 | |
| 1151822971 | James Fisk | an American financier that was partnered with Jay Gould in tampering with the railroad stocks. He, like other railroad kings, controlled the lives of the people more than the president did and pushed the way to cooperation among the kings where they developed techniques such as pooling. | 8 | |
| 1151822972 | William Tweed | Leader of Tammany Hall, gained large sums of money through the political machine, prosecuted by Samuel Tilden and sent to jail. | 9 | |
| 1151822973 | Samuel Tilden | Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876, the most controversial American election of the 19th century (Hayes, the republican candidate won, and in turn, troops were withdrawn from the South ending the reconstruction era) .political reformer, a Bourbon Democrat who worked closely with the New York City business community, led the fight against the corruption of Tammany Hall, and fought to keep taxes low | 10 | |
| 1151822974 | Rutherford Hayes | 19th president of the united states, was famous for being part of the Hayes-Tilden election in which electoral votes were contested in 4 states, most corrupt election in US history. Bargain made = Republicans get white house in exchange for ending Reconstruction. Starts implementing civil service reform - hiring by merit for government jobs. | 11 |
