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| 1153498095 | Gen. Ulysses S. Grant | Northern Civil War hero; nominated for the presidency in 1868. "Let us have peace". (republican) | |
| 1153498096 | Horatio Seymour | Former New York governor; nominated as the democratic presidential candidate in 1868. | |
| 1153498097 | "Jubilee" Jim Fisk & Jay Gould | Cornered the gold market in 1869 by bidding its price skyward. Treasury was eventually compelled to release gold. | |
| 1153498098 | Boss Tweed | used bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections to scam as much as $200 million out of NY. Eventually jailed. | |
| 1153498099 | Tammany Hall | Political district run by Boss Tweed. | |
| 1153498100 | Thomas Nast | A political cartoonist that attacked Tweed's corruption. | |
| 1153498101 | Samuel J. Tilden | Headed the persecution that landed Boss Tweed in jail. | |
| 1153498102 | Credit Mobilier scandal | Company that constructed transcontinental railroad and sub-hired itself, so as to be paid double. Bribed and kept silent several congressmen and the vice president. | |
| 1153498103 | Whiskey Ring | Robbed the treasury of whiskey excise tax money. | |
| 1153498104 | William Belknap | Secretary of war, fought swindling $24,000 by selling trinkets to indians. | |
| 1153498105 | Liberal Republican Party | Reform-minded republicans. Urged purification of the Washington administration and an end to military reconstruction. | |
| 1153498106 | Horace Greeley | Nominated by the Liberal Republican Party; dogmatic, emotional petulant, and unsound in political judgements. Surprising endorsed by Democrats as well. | |
| 1153498107 | Panic of 1873 | Began with rover-spending with borrowed money in railroads and factories. Banks and businesses went bankrupt, including the Freeman's Savings and Trust Co. | |
| 1153498108 | soft money/cheap money policies | debtors wanted paper money printed to create inflation, therefore making it easier to pay back debts. | |
| 1153498109 | hard money policies | keeping the amount of money stable and backed up by gold. | |
| 1153498110 | Resumption Act | intended to withdraw greenbacks from circulation and redeem paper money at face value. | |
| 1153498111 | Greenback Labor Party | goal was to bring cheap money policies to life. | |
| 1153498112 | Gilded Age | times looked good, but under the surface there were problems. | |
| 1153498113 | Grand Army of the Republic | composed of several hundred thousand union veterans of the civil war, supported republicans. | |
| 1153498114 | Stalwarts | Split of republican party led by Roscoe Conkling. | |
| 1153498115 | Half-Breeds | Split of republican party led by James G. Blaine. | |
| 1153498116 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Nominated by the republican party for the presidency in 1876; the "great unknown". | |
| 1153498117 | Samuel Tilden (political) | Democratic nominee for the election of 1876; only to be beaten in a deadlock by Hayes. | |
| 1153498118 | Electoral Count Act | Set up an electoral commission of fifteen men selected from the Senate, the House, and the supreme Court. | |
| 1153498119 | Jim Crow laws | legalized segregation. | |
| 1153498120 | Civil Rights Act of 1875 | loosely guaranteed equal accommodations in public places and prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection; ultimately a failure. | |
| 1153498121 | Compromise of 1877 | 1. Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president. 2. Removal of military occupation in the south, leaving freedmen to fend for themselves. 3. Money spent on the Texas & pacific railroad. | |
| 1153498122 | Plessy vs. Ferguson | "separate but equal" facilities. | |
| 1153498123 | James A Garfield | Nominated by the Republican party in 1880 and won. Assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau. | |
| 1153498124 | Chester Arthur | Garfield's vice president; reform-minded | |
| 1153498125 | Pendleton Act | required merit to get jobs, not just knowing someone in a high position. | |
| 1153498126 | Civil Service Comission | awarded jobs based on performance | |
| 1153498127 | James G. Blaine | Nominated for republican presidency in 1844. | |
| 1153498128 | Gen. Winfield Scott | ... | |
| 1153498129 | Mugwumps | Republicans who didn't like Blaine's nomination, and went over to the Democrat's side. | |
| 1153498130 | Grover Cleveland | Democratic nominee in the election of 1844; won. Had a capitalist mindset and named two former confederates to his cabinet, bridging the North-South gap. | |
| 1153498131 | Thomas "Czar" Reed | Ran the House of Representatives; ruled over it. | |
| 1153498132 | McKinley Tariff | Passed by Reed; hiked tariff rate to 48%, the highest ever in peacetime. | |
| 1153498133 | Populist Party/People's Party/Farmer's Alliance | Comprised of unhappy farmers. They demanded: 1. Inflation through cheap money policies. 2. graduated income tax, telegraph, telephone, direct elections of U.S. senators, shorter working day, and immigration restrictions. | |
| 1153498134 | initiative and referendum | intended so that people can propose and pass laws themselves | |
| 1153498135 | Depression of 1893 | Cleveland's budget deficit & low national gold supply. J.P. Morgan agreed to lend the U.S. Government $65 million in gold to solve the issue. | |
| 1153498136 | William Jennings Bryan | the first spokesperson for silver and cheap money. | |
| 1153498137 | Wilson-Gorman Tariff | Scared Cleveland into thinking the government was going in to the rich "fat cats" by allowing a 2% income tax on those who's income was over $4,000. |
