American Pageant Chapter 23 Part I pp. 504-513
1. What did the Civil War and its aftermath spawn in the federal government?
2. What explains Grant’s election as president in 1868?
3. What issue was central to the Republican platform?
4. Which issue divided the Democrats?
“waving the bloody shirt”
5. What was behind the scandal that surrounded Fisk and Gould?
6. How did Boss Tweed and the Tweed ring corrupt New York City?
7. How, when and where was the Tweed scandal uncovered?
Thomas Nast
Credit Mobilier scandal
8. How were congressmen and the Vice president involved in the Credit Mobilier scandal?
Whiskey Ring
Indian Ring
9. Describe George Washington Plunkett’s definition of honest graft.
Liberal Republicans/ Horace Greeley
10. What were the dismal choices voters faced in the Election of 1872?
11. What footprints were left by the Liberal Republicans after the Election of 1872 in spite of the fact that they lost
the election?
12. What caused the Panic of 1873?
13. Which groups were particularly hard hit?
14. Why would debtors have wanted more greenbacks issued?
15. Who advocated “hard money” and why?
16. Why did westerners, debtors and miners want coinage of silver?
17. What happened to the economy as the country prepared for returning to the gold standard?
Greenback Labor Party
Gilded Age
18. How much actual difference was there in the economic and political policies of the Democrats and Republicans
in the 1870s and 1880s?
19. What explains the exceptionally high voter turnout in these decades?
20. Describe the ethnic and cultural makeup of the Republicans.
21. Describe the ethnic and cultural makeup of the Democrats.
22. Which regions accounted for the Democratic base?
23. Which regions accounted for the Republican base?
patronage/spoils system
24. What was the underlying issue dividing the Stalwarts and the Half Breeds?
25. What accounts for the nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes by the Republicans in 1876?
26. What was Samuel J. Tilden known for in 1876?
27. Why was the Compromise of 1877 necessary?
Electoral Count Act/ Electoral Commission of 1877
28. What made Democrats agree that Hayes might take the office of president?
29. What did Republicans agree to give the Democrats?
30. Who was sacrificed to achieve peace with this compromise?
Hayes -Tilden Compromise/ Compromise of 1877
31. What did Republicans abandon?
Civil Rights Act of 1875
32. How had the Supreme Court already undermined the protection of the 14th Amendment?
33. What did Hayes do after his election to clinch the bargain?
Redeemers
34. What happened when blacks tried to assert their rights after 1877?
sharecropping
crop lien system
35. Why did sharecroppers always end up in debt?
36. What were Jim Crow laws?
37. What kinds of laws were enacted by the southern states to prevent black suffrage?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
38. Were the segregated facilities of the South ever equal?
39. What punishment could blacks expect to follow the “crime” of asserting themselves?
40. How long did this system last?
41. What is the more common name for the “second Reconstruction” that came a century later?