Chapter 23 Study Guide
Population and world rank in 1870
Election of 1868
-Candidates? Outcome? What accounted for the outcome?
“Ohio idea”
“Waving the bloody shirt”
Jim Fisk
Jay Gould
Tweed Ring
Thomas Nast
Crédit Mobilier scandal
Whiskey Ring
Election of 1872
-Candidates? Outcome?
Liberal Republicans
Horace Greeley
Hard money
“cheap-money”
Resumption Act of 1875
“Crime of ‘73”
Greenback Labor Party
Gilded Age
Summarize the status of the political parties and of party politics during the Gilded Age (p.507)
GAR
Patronage
Stalwart vs. Half-Breeds
Roscoe Conkling
James Blaine
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden
Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Sharecropping and the “crop-lien” system
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
“birthright citizenship”
Election of 1880
James A. Garfield
Charles J. Guiteau
Chester A. Arthur
Spoils System
Pendleton Act of 1883
Mugwumps
Grover Cleveland
Election of 1884
-Candidates? Issue?
-How did the post-Pendleton Republican alliance with big business influence the election?
Election of 1888
-Candidates? Issue? Outcome?
Billion-Dollar Congress
McKinley Tariff Act of 1890
-impact?
Populists
-Issues? Location of support?
-Why weren’t the Populists able to gain support in the South?
Homestead Strike (1892)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
Varying Viewpoints: The Populists