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History Studyguide Ch.16
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History
11th Grade
09/14/2013

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Provided jobs to people according to their performance on examinations
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Pendelton Act
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Republican reformers who supported Cleveland for president
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Mugwumps
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The reason why Mugwumps supported Cleveland for president
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They were unhappy with Blaine the Republican candidate
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Overturned act legalized segregation
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
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How the federal government got inflation under control
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They stopped printing greenbacks and began paying off their bonds
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The goals of populists in the 1892 election
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To strengthen the hand of government so that it could defend the public against what they saw as greedy and irresponsible private interests
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Democrats controlled this part of congress
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The House of Representatives
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Republicans controlled this house of congress
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The Senate
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Why it was a problem that the Senate was controlled by the Republicans and the House of Representatives was controlled by the Democrats
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It caused a political stand still
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The followers of Hayes who attacked the practice of patronage
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Halfbreeds
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Were against Hayes and supported patronage
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Stalwarts
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Were members of the People party
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The Populists
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Patronage
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Government jobs went to supporters of the winning party in an election
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First national farm organization
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The Grange
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Large Corporations set up by th Farmers' Alliance

 

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Exchanges
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Taxes higher earnings more heavily than lower earnings
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Graduated Income Tax
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Tax prevented manyAfrican Americans from voting
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Poll Tax
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Allowed any man to vote if they had an ancestor on the voting rolls
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Grandfather Clause
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Seperation of Races
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Segregation
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Laws enforced segregation
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Jim Crow Laws
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Assasinated after the Election of 1880
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James A Garfield
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Two groups the Democratic Party split into
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The Goldbugs and the Silverites
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Goldbugs
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Believed the American currency should be based only on gold
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Silverites
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Believed coining unlimited silver would solve the nation's economic crisis
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Lynchings
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Executions without proper court proceedings

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Established equal but seperate facilities for African Americans
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Presidential candidate promised full lunch pail to workers
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Mckinely
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Was concerned with protecting and excercising voting rights for African Americans
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Made trusts illegal
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Organized African American mass migration to Kansas
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Benjamin Singleton
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Said African Americans should focus on educational and economic goals
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Booker T. Washington
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Launched a fearless campaign against lynching
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Ida B Wells
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Populism
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Movement to increase farmers polical power and to work for legislation in their interests
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Panic of 1893
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Philadelphia and Reading Railroads declared Bankruptcy
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Paper currency could not be exchanged for gold or silver
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greenbacks
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Pushed for political reforms that would help farmers solve their problems
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Farmers' Alliance Party
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Authorized the purchase of 4.5 million ounces of silver per month
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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Organization of African Americans who stayed in the South
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Colored Farmers' National Alliance
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Landless farmers gave their landlord a large share of their crops to cover rent and farm supplies
Definition
Sharecroppers
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