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| 62610150 | Laissez-faire | a policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony | |
| 62610151 | social darwinism | The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle. | |
| 62610152 | gilded age | 1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor | |
| 62610153 | solid south | Term applied to the one-party (Democrat) system of the South following the Civil War. For 100 years after the Civil War, the South voted Democrat in every presidential election. | |
| 62610154 | 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. | |
| 62610155 | Stalwarts | Republicans fighting for civil service reform during Garfield's term; they supported Cleveland. | |
| 62610156 | halfbreeds | republican reformers who were accused of backing reform simply to create openings for their own supporters. | |
| 62610157 | Mugwumps | A group of renegade Republicans who supported 1884 Democratic presidential nominee Grover Cleveland instead of their party's nominee, James G. Blaine. | |
| 62610158 | Rutherford B. 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 | |
| 62610159 | James Garfield | was elected to presidency in 1880. He barely won the popular vote but won by a huge margin in the electoral college. He was assassinated so Stalwarts could be in power in the government. This brought about reforms in the spoils systems. | |
| 62610160 | chester a. arthur | an honorable man but firmly believe in the spoils system but eventually demolished it, took Rutherford B Hayes place when he was assinated | |
| 62610161 | Thomas Reid | American novelist who wrote numerous popular novels set in untamed settings, especially the American West. His tales, based on his adventures in America, captivated American youths, including the young Theodore Roosevelt. | |
| 62610162 | James G. Blaine | a U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time United States Secretary of State, and champion of the Half-Breeds. He was a dominant Republican leader of the post Civil War period, obtaining the 1884 Republican nomination, but lost to Democrat Grover Cleveland | |
| 62610163 | Grover Cleveland | 22nd and 24th president, Democrat, Honest and hardworking, fought corruption, vetoed hundreds of wasteful bills, achieved the Interstate Commerce Commission and civil service reform, violent suppression of strikes | |
| 62610164 | Pendleton Act | Bill signed into law by Arthur that ends patronage and institutes a meritocratic job-seeking system for civil service | |
| 62610165 | Greenback party | was an American political party with an antimonopoly ideology[1] that was active between 1874 and 1884. Its name referred to paper money, or "greenbacks," that had been issued during the American Civil War and afterward. | |
| 62610166 | James B. Weaver | the populist nominated for the presidential election of 1892 | |
| 62610167 | Crime of 1873 | The Fourth Coinage Act was enacted by the United States Congress in 1873 and embraced the gold standard and de-monetized silver. U.S. set the specie standard in gold and not silver, upsetting miners who referred to it as a crime | |
| 62610168 | Bland-Allison Act | an 1878 act of Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars. | |
| 62610169 | Benjamin Harrison | 23rd President; Republican, poor leader, introduced the McKinley Tariff and increased federal spending to a billion dollars | |
| 62610170 | billion-dollar Congress | a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, from March 4, 1889 to March 4, 1891, during the first two years of the administration of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison. | |
| 62610171 | McKinley Tariff (1890) | raised tariffs and brought new trouble to farmers, who were forced to buy high-priced, protected products from American manufacturers but sell their own products into highly competitive, unprotected world markets. This upset many rural voters, who voted many Republicans out of office in the next congressional elections | |
| 62610172 | Sherman Silver Purchase Act | In 1890, an act was passed so that the treasury would by 4.5 million ounces of silver monthly and pay those who mined it in notes that were redeemable in either gold or silver. This law doubled the amount of silver that could be purchased under the Bland-Allison Law of 1878. | |
| 62610173 | Populist party | U.S. political party formed in 1892 representing mainly farmers, favoring free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other monopolies | |
| 62610174 | Omaha platform | the 1892 platform of the Populist party repudiating laissez-faire and demanding economic and political reform | |
| 62610175 | 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. | |
| 62610176 | gold drain | gold reserve fell to a dangerously low level and Cleveland had to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act; then borrowed 65 million from J.P. Morgan in gold to support the dollar and gold standard | |
| 62610177 | Coxey's Army | unemployed workers marched from ohio to wahsington to draw attention to the plight of workers and to ask for goverment relief | |
| 62610178 | William Jennings Bryan | Politician who ran for president 1896, 1900 and 1908 under Democrats, was a pro-silverite and Populist leader | |
| 62610179 | Free silver | A short term solution. Wanted to put silver into circulation instead of paper money. However, is was not free because it could cause inflation of prices of goods and deflation of the value of money. Decided not to put silver into circulation. | |
| 62610180 | "gold Bug" | term used to describe investors who are very bullish on buying the commodity gold. | |
| 62610181 | William McKinley | 25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist | |
| 62610182 | Mark Hanna | business mogul, financial power behind McKinley's nomination and his subsequent campaign for president; promised a strong and prosperous industrial nation; a mass media genius | |
| 62610183 | Dingley Tarrif | raised tariffs in United States. Under the Act, tariff rates reached a new high, averaging 46.5%, and in some cases up to 57%. The Republican President William McKinley fully supported the bill. |
