Chapter 23 People and Terms
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51156099 | Conservative | Believes in little change as possible (if costly), anti-government | |
51156100 | Liberal | Believes government is solution, more comfortable with change | |
51156101 | Laissez-Faire | government out of economy | |
51156102 | Grover Cleveland | President in 1884 and 1892, Democrat | |
51156103 | Stalwarts | (Republican) Conservatives, led by Roscoe Conkling of NY, favored the old issues of the South | |
51156104 | Half Breeds | (Republican) Liberals, led by James Blain of ME, favored new issues | |
51156105 | Roscoe Conkling | led Stalwarts | |
51156106 | James Blaine | led Half Breeds, Garfield appointed him as Secretary of State | |
51156107 | Bourbons | conservatives, democratic leaders in the South, this was a name dubbed on them by their enemies | |
51156108 | Party Bosses | Controlled the political parties | |
51156109 | Mugwumps | (Usually Republicans) Reformers who were liberal on social issues but held conservative economic views (like laissez-faire, tariff reform, sound money, civil service reform) | |
51156110 | Carl Schurz | A mugwump, Secretary of Interior | |
51156111 | George William Curtis | A mugwump, editor of Harper's Weekly | |
51156112 | E.L. Godkin | A mugwump, editor of the Nation | |
51156113 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Stalwart Republican, president 1877-1881 | |
51156114 | John Jay | Led Presidential Commission of 1877 | |
51156115 | Chester A. Arthur | The collector, and naval officer of Alonzo Cornell | |
51156116 | James A. Garfield | Half Breed Republican, president 1881, shot and died | |
51156117 | Charles Guiteau | Shot Garfield | |
51156118 | Benjamin Harrison | Stalwart Republican, president 1889-1893 | |
51156119 | The Grange | "Patrons of Husbandry", to allow farmers to discuss farm problems and to socialize | |
51156120 | Oliver Hudson Kelley | Formed The Grange | |
51156121 | Cooperatives | Businesses owned and operated by farmers | |
51156122 | Dr. Charles Macune | Led National Farmers' Alliance | |
51156123 | James Weaver | Populist Candidate, Democrat, chicken farmer | |
51156124 | William McKinley | Stalwart Republican, president 1897-1901 | |
51156125 | William Jennings Bryan | Democrat and Populist Candidate for election of 1897 | |
51156126 | Marcus Hanna | helped McKinley win Presidency | |
51158194 | Political Conservatism | Status quo, big business rules, laissez faire |