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| 539834704 | electorate | people who vote for president | |
| 539834705 | partisanship | a member of a party strongly supporting their own party despite the fact that the party may not be right | |
| 539834706 | spoils and patronage | a system in which the winning party gives government jobs to voters that supported that party | |
| 539834707 | factions | groups within a party | |
| 539834708 | civil service | all government jobs except the military | |
| 539834709 | mugwumps | group of liberal republicans who decided to vote against their party and instead for an honest democrat | |
| 539834710 | "rum, romanism, and rebellion" | attack against democrats in the 1884 election saying they were the party of the civil war, against Catholic, and anti immigrant party | |
| 539834711 | protective tariffs | taxes on imported goods designed to protect domestic producers | |
| 539834712 | grangers | an organization of farmers who mainly tried to change rates for railroads | |
| 539834713 | "commerce clause" | article 1 section 8 clause 1 giving congress the power to control interstate commerce (business activities happening in multiple states) | |
| 539834714 | half-breeds | a group within the republican party believing in reform | |
| 539834715 | stalwarts | a group within the republican party believing in traditional, professional machine politics | |
| 539834716 | Roscoe Conkling (NY) | leader of the Stalwarts | |
| 539834717 | James G. Blaine (ME) | leader of the half-breed and nominated by the republicans for the election of 1884 known as the "plumed knights" to his supporters but to may Americans as a symbol of sketchy politics | |
| 539834718 | Rutherford B. Hayes | republican president for 1877-1881 both stalwarts (believed in traditional) led by Roscoe Conklings and half-breed(believed in reform) led by James Blaine tried to control the republican party | |
| 539834719 | James A. Garfield | president of the 1880 election, nominated by both stalwarts and half-breeds congressman from Ohio | |
| 539834720 | Chester A. Arthur | succeeded Garfield after his death was a close ally to conkling however after becoming president supported reforms and kept most of Garfield's people in office | |
| 539834721 | General Winfield Scott Hancock | nominated by democrats for the 1880 election, lost minor civil war general | |
| 539834722 | Carl Schurz | A politician who was also a journalist was not a partisanship cabinet member of rutherford b hayes believed in reform in reform and supported the cause of free slaves and better indian treatment | |
| 539834723 | George William Curtis &Thomas | created political cartoons Thomas was the drawer while George was the writer | |
| 539834724 | Nast--Harper's Weekly | political New York magazine suffered financially but continued nevertheless | |
| 539834725 | E.L. Godkin--The Nation | a mugwump whose criticism as an editor of the New York post and the book the nation played a part in the reform movement | |
| 539834726 | Grover Cleveland | democratic president of the election of 1884 governor of new york and had a reputation to be against corruption became president again after the election of 1892 supporting the lowering of tariffs | |
| 539834727 | Benjamin Harrison | senator of Indiana respectable but didn't try to influence congress while in office was only president for one term | |
| 539834728 | Civil War Pension System | A temporary system with annual pensions for retired veterans and widows. | |
| 539834729 | Election of 1880 (P) | Election between Garfield and Arthur republicans (Garfield) won by a big electoral margin but small popular vote margin both senate and representatives was heavily dominated by republicans mainly due to the end of recession in 1879 | |
| 539834730 | Garfield's Assassination 1881 | shot four months after his inauguration by a deranged gun man who said I am a stalwart and Arthur is president now died three months later probably killed because of his support for reform | |
| 539834731 | Pendleton Act 1883 | required some federal jobs to be filled by competitive written examinations as opposed to patronage | |
| 539834732 | Election of 1884 (P) | the election between Glover Cleveland and James Blaine Glover Cleveland won because of a heavy vote from the catholic vote in new york not very big margin in popular vote | |
| 539834733 | Election of 1888 (P) | Cleveland was renominated however lost to Benjamin Harrison a fight between distinct economical standpoints, democrats supported reduction of tariffs while republican supported the raise of tariffs one of the most corrupt elections in history won by an electoral majority however lost the popular vote | |
| 539834734 | Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 | prohibited combinations that restrained competition however didn't really d anything as many corporations took advantage of the states giving them special privileges that allowed them to not follow this act | |
| 539834735 | Dependent Pension Act 1890 | passed by president Benjamin Harrison giving pensions to civil war veterans who were unable to work originally vetoed by Cleveland | |
| 539834736 | United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895) | government sued in company over monopolizing and violating sherman act however was disregarded as the court ruled the government only had the power to control commerce | |
| 539834737 | McKinley Tariff 1890 | created by representative William McKinley who proposed the highest tariff ever proposed to congress | |
| 539834738 | Election of 1892 (P) | election between benamin harrison who supported raising tariffs, Glover Cleveland who supported lowering tariffs and james b weaver who want economic reform Glover Cleveland won with a huge margin in both popular vote and electoral votes democrats took both senate and house | |
| 539834739 | Panic of 1893 | created the worst depression experienced due to a couple railroads (Philadelphia) declaring bankruptcy with the inability to pay a loan led to collapse of the stock market | |
| 539834740 | Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1894 | A tariff reduction supported by house but the senate weakened. president Glover Cleveland supported too and passed it as a law under this tariff included few very modest reductions | |
| 539834741 | Wabash Case (1886) | declared acts by the rangers unconstitutional saying the state cannot control interstate commerce as it was a power delegated to congress | |
| 539834742 | Interstate Commerce Act 1887 | banned discrimination of rates between long and short hauls and required railroads to publish their rates and let the government know to make sure their prices were reasonable and just | |
| 539834743 | Interstate Commerce Commission | five-person agency in charge of enforcing the interstate commerce act but had to rely on courts enforce the rulings | |
| 539834744 | populism | a political ideal typically siding with the people instead of the elite such as the people's party | |
| 539834745 | cooperatives | farms owned and operated by the government | |
| 539834746 | temperance | a movement to encourage people to drink less and put pressure on government to do something about drinking | |
| 539834747 | constituency | a group of voters who choose someone to represent their area | |
| 539834748 | marginalize | to treat a person or group as insignificant | |
| 539834749 | "free silver" | allowing silver to also be used to back up currency | |
| 539834750 | "southern demagogue" | a political group that got support by playing on sympathy for poor southern farmers who couldn't do anything against the rich | |
| 539834751 | Mary E. Lease | a very well known populist who was very outspoken and gave many speeches for the alliance best known for her phrase "raise less corn and more hell" | |
| 539834752 | Leonidas L. Polk | member of the northwestern alliance from North Carolina and was elected into congress in 1890 | |
| 539834753 | James B. Weaver | nominated by the people's party in the election of 1892 trying to advocate for more substantial economic reform | |
| 539834754 | "Greenbacks" and Legal Tender | greenbacks was the paper currency introduced during the civil war and the legal tender was the establishing of the constitutionality of paper money | |
| 539834755 | Cases (1871) | legal tender case? | |
| 539834756 | Panic of 1893 | an economic depression that began in 1893 showing the failing of railroads due to overexpanding led to the failure of multiple banks | |
| 539834757 | Munn v Illinois (1896) | court ruling allowing states to control prices as long as it was for the "public interest" | |
| 539834758 | Bland-Allison Act 1878 | forcing the US treasury to buy silver and using it to coin money didn't do much except for help the miners slightly | |
| 539834759 | Farmers' Alliances and "Colored Alliances" | created in the 1880's after the grange lost most of its power started off as being concerned in local problems then tried to change the economy by finding alternatives formed different cooperatives in the hope to help farmers from the hated furnishing companies colored alliance was created in Texas with the same ideals as the farmers' alliance however since they were black or "colored" they weren't allowed into the farmers' alliance | |
| 539834760 | Ocala Demands 1890 | a party platform created by the northwestern alliance helping farmers candidates supported by the alliance often succeeded | |
| 539834761 | Populist (People's) Party 1892 | created in 1892 in Omaha, Nebraska a combination of nothern and southern alliances and the leaders of the knights of labor | |
| 539834762 | Election of 1892 | may populist candidates won election so seats in state legislatures three governors, five senators and ten congressmen were elected by appealing to the populist sentiment | |
| 539834763 | Omaha Platform of 1892 | proposed a system of subtreasuries which would replace and strengthen the cooperatives | |
| 539834764 | contraction of credit | caused by the panic of 1893 which caused new aggresive and loan-dependent businesses to go bankrupt | |
| 539834765 | bankruptcy | when a person or company is unable to pay their debts they declare this | |
| 539834766 | bimetallism | the use of both silver and gold to back up the currency created because people believed that the gold currency was failing | |
| 539834767 | Jacob Coxey | Ohio businessman and populist who advoacated for a public works program to create jobs led a march to the capital in an attempt to be heard | |
| 539834768 | William H. Harvey | created a graphic illustration of Coins financial scoool | |
| 539834769 | inflation | adding more money into the economy lowering the value of the dollar | |
| 539834770 | specie | precious metal used to back up currency | |
| 539834771 | Coin's Financial School 1894 | a fictional professor (coin) ran a school in finance and persuaded with simple logic the free silver would do great benefits to society | |
| 539834773 | Coxey's Army (1894) | 500 people who marched from ohio to washington led by jacob coxey police prevented their entry to the capitol and arrested the leader | |
| 539834774 | "Crime of 73" Coinage Act of 1873 | act the prevented further use of silver to create coins prevented the further expansion of money into the silver industry | |
| 539834775 | Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 | required the government to purchase silver and to pay for it in gold | |
| 539834776 | Repeal of Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1893 | due to the dropping of the god reserve this act was repealed the panic of 1893 also intensified the demands of the gold reserves | |
| 539834777 | "...you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold " | came from the famous cross of gold speech given by William Jennings Bryan | |
| 539834778 | "whistlestop campaign" | a technique used by William Jennngs Bryan where he gave a series of short speeches to small towns in the hopes to win their vote | |
| 539834779 | "'front-porch' campaign" | a technique used by William McKinley in which he brought many people to his house to give a speech in the hopes of winning their vote | |
| 539834780 | "battle of the standards" | the battle between the use of gold and silver in the currency system the main conflict in the election of 1896 | |
| 539834781 | Marcus Hanna | republican party leader who settled on governor William McKinley to become the candidate for the party | |
| 539834782 | William McKinley | governor of ohio created the highest tariff known to history | |
| 539834783 | William Jennings Bryan | candidate for the democrats in the election of 1896 congressman from Nebraska best known for his speech in 1896 which gained him the nomination for the democrats | |
| 539834784 | "Cross of Gold" speech 1896 | given by William Jennings Bryan and was the speech that would allow him to become a candidate for president | |
| 539834785 | Election of 1896 (P) | election between democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan supported by the populist and William McKinley candidate of the republican party | |
| 539834786 | Dingley Tariff | the highest tariff ever known in us history and one of the longest too passed during McKinley's presidency | |
| 539834787 | Gold Standard (Currency) Act 1900 | act passed by Willliam McKinley ensuring the currency be held to a specific value in comparison to gold |
