Vocabulary Terms
Subject:
US History [1]
Tags:
Vocab [9]
Vocab from Scerbies! Bloody shirt: reviving glory moments from the civil war to rally votes for Grant Tweed Ring: Boss Tweed employed bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections to milk NYC of 200 million dollars. Credit Mobilier scandal: members of the Union pacific railroad formed a construction company and hired themselves at inflated prices. Whiskey Ring: robbed the treasury of millions in excise tax revenues, Grant?s private secretary was involved. Horace Greely: former editor of NY tribune Cheap Money: greenbacks Hard/Sound money: gold and sliver Resumption act of 1875: gov further withdrew greenbacks from circulation Crime of 73: congress stopped silver dollar coins which didn?t promote inflation (which westerners wanted)