CH 23 Insights
• ID- Can the Law Reach Him? P 506
• Summary 1- What is this cartoon implying about the police against “Boss”
Tweed?
– That the political machines are too big for the police to enforce the law
• OI- The Era of Good Stealings, Carnival of Corruption
• 1) What did Fisk and Gould attempt?
– Corner the gold market,
• 2) Who was Boss Tweed?
– Political Boss/leader of Tammany Hall (NYC political machine), stole $200 mil
• 3) How did Tweed attempt to get out going to jail?
– Try to bribe Thomas Nast $5 mil
– Muckraker- journalist who exposed corruption in Gov.
• 4) How did Credit Mobilier try to cover up the fact that it was overcharging
and ripping off the US government?
– Gave shares of the company to Congressmen to keep quiet
• 5) What do you feel was the primary motivation of the administration of
President Grant?
– To get rich while working for the president, not to help the country
• ID- Hayes-Tilden Disputed Election of 1876 (P 510)
• Summary 2- What three Southern states had disputed results?
– LA, SC, FL
• OI- Hayes-Tilden Standoff in 1976, The Compromise of 1877 and the End of
Reconstruction
• 6) What was the conflict with the submitted votes from LA, SC,
and Fl?
– That there were two separate sets of votes present by the Dem. And
Rep.
• 7) What were the two key provisions of the Compromise of
1877 that avoided renewed deadlock?
• Rep./Hayes win Pres, Dem.- Army leaves the South
• 8) What group of people was most negatively affected by the
Compromise?
– African-Americans b/c the Army was protecting them from the KKK
• ID- A Southern Plantation, Before and After the Civil War
• Summary 3- Identify how the map has changed from 1860 to
1881 (What does each dot represent?)
– Ex-Slaves have spread out, each dot represents an Af/Am family
• OI- The Birth of Jim Crow in the Post Reconstruction South
• 9) Define Sharecropping (in your own words!)
– Freedmen rent land from their former masters and shared crops grown
• 10) What were Jim Crow laws?
– Segregation laws to separate blacks and whites in S.
• 11) What did Plessy vs. Ferguson establish?
– Legalized segregation as long a facilities were “Separate but Equal”
• Problem?
• Separate was enforced, not equal
• 12) Explain how things were unfair for Af/Am in the South.
– Inferior schools, worse public facilities including railroad cars, bathrooms,
• ID- First Blow at the Chinese Question
• Summary 4- What is California’s response to Chinese
immigrants?
– Organized white violence against Chinese
• OI- Class Conflicts and Ethnic Struggles
• 13) What percentage of California was Chinese in 1880?
– 9% (almost all in San Francisco area)
• 14) How did the “Kearneyites” handle the Chinese “Problem”?
– Street gangs cut off Chinese pigtails or murdered Chinese
imm.
• 15) What did the Chinese Exclusion Act establish?
– No more Chinese immigration to US
• Intended to solve the problem of Americans beating up
Chinese by keeping more Chinese out
• 1st time the US set a limit on immigration (and
excluded a whole group of people)
• ID- Presidential Election of 1892
• Summary 5- How many political parties participated in
the election? Who is the extra party?
– 3, Populists
• OI-The Drumbeat of Discontent
• 16) Who were the Populists comprised of?
– Farmers upset at corporations and a gov. that favored the rich
– Populists- 1st politcal party who felt the goal of Gov. was to
get involved and help ordinary people, not the rich
• Laissez-Faire- idea that Gov. should stay out of the way
of business as much as possible (belief supported by
the rich and powerful/Gov. before the Populists)
• 17,18,19) Identify three ideas in the Omaha Platform (where the
Populists met) and explain why you feel each idea is important
or could help improve the country.
– Coinage of silver (cause inflation allowing farmers to pay back debt
easier)
– Graduated income tax (rich pay more in taxes)
– Gov ownership of RR, telephone, telegraph (services all people need,
Gov. would insure poor can afford the services)
– One term Pres. (so pres solves problems, not focuses on re-election)
– Initiatives (propositions) people can create laws and vote on those
laws, leaves corrupt politicians out of law making who might create
laws to favor rich
– Shorter workday (12 hr days to 8 hour day)
– Immigration restrictions (immigrants work for less hurting lower class
Americans
– 20) What group people were left out of the Populist party?
What were some techniques used to disenfranchise that
group?
• Af/Am (poll taxes, grandfather clause, literacy tersts)