IDs Chapter 24

118962046	Ulysses S. 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.
118962047	Samuel Tilden	Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 - August 4, 1886) was the Democratic candidate for the US presidency in the disputed election of 1876, the most controversial American election of the 19th century.
118962048	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
118962049	Hard/Sound Money	money adequately backed by capital assets or reserves. "Grant's name continued to be associated with sound money...."
118962050	Tweed Ring	the corrupt part of Tammany Hall in New York City, that Samuel J. Tilden, the reform governor of New York had been instrumental in overthrowing.
118962051	Bland-Allison Act	1878 - Authorized coinage of a limited number of silver dollars and "silver certificate" paper money. First of several government subsidies to silver producers in depression periods. Required government to buy between $2 and $4 million worth of silver. Created a partial dual coinage system referred to as "limping bimetallism." Repealed in 1900.
118962052	Half-Breeds	opponents of the Jim Crow laws led by James Blaine
118962053	Fisk and Gould	attempted to corner the gold market by making sure no gold was being drawn out so the value of gold could rise
118962054	Thomas Nast	Newspaper cartoonist who produced satirical cartoons, he invented "Uncle Sam" and came up with the elephant and the donkey for the political parties. He nearly brought down Boss Tweed.
118962055	James Garfield	20th president, Republican, assassinated by Charles Julius Guiteau after a few months in office due to lack of patronage
118962056	Benjamin Harrison	23rd President; Republican, poor leader, introduced the McKinley Tariff and increased federal spending to a billion dollars
118962057	Gilded Age	1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor
118962058	Credit Mobilier	a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
118962059	The Gar	The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War.
118962060	Compromise of 1877	Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river
118962061	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
118962062	Chester Arthur	21st president, Republican, taking office after assassination of Garfield, revitalized the US Navy and ironically lead the charge of civil service reform
118962063	Cheap Money	Any policy followed by the government which cause inflation and therefore the value of money to be worth less.
118962064	"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.
118962065	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.
118962066	Stalwarts	A faction of the Republican party in the ends of the 1800s Supported the political machine and patronage. Conservatives who hated civil service reform.
118962067	Pendleton Act	It made compulsory campaign contributions from federal employees illegal, and established the Civil Service Commission to make appointments to federal jobs on the basis of examination rather than cronyism