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80 Cards in this Set
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What did Jim Fisk and Jay Gould plan to do?
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raise the price of the gold market
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What was the Credit Mobilier scandal in 1872?
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Union Pacific R&R insiders made the Credit Mobilier company then hired themselves at inflated prices; they also bribed government officials to stay quiet about it
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Which party chose Horace Greeley as their candidate in the elections of 1872?
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Liberal Republican Party
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What was the amnesty act of 1872?
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removed political disabilities from most of the former Confederate leaders
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What caused the panic of 1873?
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overspeculation
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What was the Resumption ACt of 1875?
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required government to withdraw greenbacks from circulaton and redeem all paper currency in gold at face value
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Describe the Stalwarts and Half-Breeds
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Stalwarts were led by Roscoe Conkling and supported the spoils system; Half-Breeds were led by James G. Blaine and supported the opposite
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What did the Stalwarts and Half-Breeds mainly disagree over?
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who would give the jobs to the people who voted in their favor
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Describe the Hayes-Tilden Standoff in 1876.
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Tilden won popular vote but was one away from winning in the Electoral College but they couldnt decide who the winner of the states would be because the president of the Senate was a Republican and the Speaker of the House was a Democrat
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What was the Electoral Count Act (Compromise of 1877)?
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set up an electoral commission consisting of 15 men elected from Senate, House of Representatives and the Surpreme Court
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Civil Rights ACt of 1875
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guaranteed equal accomodations in public places and prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection
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Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
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Supremem Court ruled in favor of the South's segregation declaring that separate but equal facilities were legal under the 14th Amendment
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What was a result of the assassination of President Garfield?
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The Pendleton Act was passed making campaign contributions from federal employees illegal and establishing the Civil Service Comission
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Why was it known as the Billion-Dollar Congress?
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spended a lot; gave pensions to Civil War veterans, increased government purchases on silver, and passed the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890
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Who made up the Populist party?
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frustrated farmers in the west and south that demanded inflation through free and unlimited coinage of silver
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Sherman Silver Purchase ACt of 1890
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created by the administration of Benjamin Harrison in order to increase amount of silver in circulation
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Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894
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lowered tariffs and contained a 2% tax on incomes over $4,000 (ruled unconstitutional in 1895)
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Name two railroad improvements
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steel rail, standard gauge of track witdth
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"stock watering"
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enabled railroad stock promoters to inflate their claims about a given line's assets and profitability and sell stocks and bonds in excess of the railroad's actual value
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"pools"
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agreements to divide the business in a given area and share the profits
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Wabash case
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SC ruled that individual states had no power to regulate interstate commerce
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Interstate Commerce ACt
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prohibited rebates and pools, required railroads to publish their rates openly, forbade unfair discrimination against shippers, outlawed charging more for short trip than long over same line
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Vertical integration: what is it, who used it?
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combining all phases of manufacturing into one organization, Carnegie Steel
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Horizontal integration: what is it, who used it?
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allying with competitors to monopolize a market, Rockefeller
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Bessemer process
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allowed the price of steel to drop and be done with ease
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Plutocracy
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goernment controlled by the wealthy that took over the constitution
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
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forbade combinations in restraint or trade without any distinction between "good" or "bad" trusts
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Booker T. Washington
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avoided issue of social equality
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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attacked Booker T, helped form NAACP in 1910
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Morrill Act of 1862
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passed after southern states had succeeded providing generous grants of the public lands to the staets for support of education
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Hatch Act of 1887
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extended Morrill ACt and provided federal funds for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in connection with land grant colleges
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Comstock Law
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censored "immoral" material from the public (caused by gossip mags)
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18th amendment
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national prohibition amendment
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Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
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dissolved many tribes as legal entities, wiped out tribal ownership of land, set up individual Indian family heads with 160 free acres
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Homestead Act of 1862
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allowed a settler to qcquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 6 yrs, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30
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goal of the Grange
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to enhance the lives of isolate farmers through social, educational, and fraternal activites
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Grange Laws
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held the idea of public control of private business for the general welfare
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Populist party
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called for nationalizing the railroads, telephones, and telegraph; instituting a graduated income tax, created new federal subtreasury (scheme to provide farms with loams for crips stored in gov-owned warehouses), free & unlimited coinage of silver
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Coxey's Army & Pullman Strike
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wanted gov to relieve unemployment by an inflationary public works system
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Dingley Tariff Bill
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proposed new high tariff rates to generate enough revenue to cover the annual Treasury deficits
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Gold Standard of 1900
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provided that paper currency be reedeemed freely in gold
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The Influence of Sea Power upon History by Cpt. Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that ___
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control of the sea was the key to word dominance
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The Great Rapprochement
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between U.S. and Britain (after Brit rejected relevance of Monroe Doctrine)Brit decided to not go to war
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Hatch Act of 1887
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extended Morrill ACt and provided federal funds for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in connection with land grant colleges
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yellow journalism
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William R. Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer, made conditions in Cuba more than they were
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Dupuy de Lome letter
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Hearst's Journal published private letter de Lome which degraded McKinley so he resigned
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Comstock Law
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censored "immoral" material from the public (caused by gossip mags)
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18th amendment
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national prohibition amendment
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Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
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dissolved many tribes as legal entities, wiped out tribal ownership of land, set up individual Indian family heads with 160 free acres
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Homestead Act of 1862
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allowed a settler to qcquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 6 yrs, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30
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Hatch Act of 1887
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extended Morrill ACt and provided federal funds for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in connection with land grant colleges
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goal of the Grange
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to enhance the lives of isolate farmers through social, educational, and fraternal activites
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Comstock Law
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censored "immoral" material from the public (caused by gossip mags)
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Grange Laws
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held the idea of public control of private business for the general welfare
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18th amendment
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national prohibition amendment
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Populist party
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called for nationalizing the railroads, telephones, and telegraph; instituting a graduated income tax, created new federal subtreasury (scheme to provide farms with loams for crips stored in gov-owned warehouses), free & unlimited coinage of silver
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Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
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dissolved many tribes as legal entities, wiped out tribal ownership of land, set up individual Indian family heads with 160 free acres
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Coxey's Army & Pullman Strike
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wanted gov to relieve unemployment by an inflationary public works system
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Homestead Act of 1862
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allowed a settler to qcquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 6 yrs, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30
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Dingley Tariff Bill
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proposed new high tariff rates to generate enough revenue to cover the annual Treasury deficits
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goal of the Grange
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to enhance the lives of isolate farmers through social, educational, and fraternal activites
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Gold Standard of 1900
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provided that paper currency be reedeemed freely in gold
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Grange Laws
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held the idea of public control of private business for the general welfare
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The Influence of Sea Power upon History by Cpt. Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that ___
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control of the sea was the key to word dominance
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Populist party
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called for nationalizing the railroads, telephones, and telegraph; instituting a graduated income tax, created new federal subtreasury (scheme to provide farms with loams for crips stored in gov-owned warehouses), free & unlimited coinage of silver
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The Great Rapprochement
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between U.S. and Britain (after Brit rejected relevance of Monroe Doctrine)Brit decided to not go to war
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Coxey's Army & Pullman Strike
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wanted gov to relieve unemployment by an inflationary public works system
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yellow journalism
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William R. Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer, made conditions in Cuba more than they were
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Dingley Tariff Bill
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proposed new high tariff rates to generate enough revenue to cover the annual Treasury deficits
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Dupuy de Lome letter
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Hearst's Journal published private letter de Lome which degraded McKinley so he resigned
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Gold Standard of 1900
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provided that paper currency be reedeemed freely in gold
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The Influence of Sea Power upon History by Cpt. Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that ___
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control of the sea was the key to word dominance
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The Great Rapprochement
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between U.S. and Britain (after Brit rejected relevance of Monroe Doctrine)Brit decided to not go to war
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yellow journalism
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William R. Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer, made conditions in Cuba more than they were
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Dupuy de Lome letter
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Hearst's Journal published private letter de Lome which degraded McKinley so he resigned
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Teller Amendment
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proclaimed that when the US had overthrown Spanish misrule, it would give Cubans their freedom
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attack in Manila
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Commodore Dewey went to Phillipines and attacked and destroyed Spanish fleet at Manila
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"Rough Riders"
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regiment of voluneteers made up of cowboys and ex-athletes led by Roosevelt
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Foraker ACt of 1900
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Congress gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government and granted thm U.S. citizenship
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Platt Amendment
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decreed that the US might intervene with troops in Cuba in order to resotre order and proved mutual protection; promised to sell or lease needed coaling/naval stations to the US
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