Major Political Events in 1868-1900s

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Patronage

________ is the power to control appointments to office of the right two privileges.

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Pendleton

________ act of 1883 may campaign contributions from federal employees illegal and establish the civil service commission to make appointments to field jobs on the basis of competitive examinations.

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Grand Army

________ a republic, a politically powerful organization of union veterans of the Civil War voted Republicans.

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Jim Fisk

Jumbilee ________ (brass) and John Gould (brains) conducted a plot in 1869 to corner the gold market.

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1882

Congress passed the Chinese exclusion act in ________ which prohibited all future immigration from China until 1843.

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Whiskey ring

________ robbed the treasury of millions in excise tax revenue.

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Resumption act

________ of 1875 pledge the government to further withdrawal greenbacks from circulation into the redemption of all paper currency in gold at face value starting in 1879.

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Deflationary

________ affect the amount of money per capita decreased.

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Horatio Seymour

________ refused to accept the Ohio idea.

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Congress

________ in 1885 prohibited the importation of foreign workers under contract usually for substandard wages.

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Cleveland

________ in 1885 was the first Democratic president since Buchanan.

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Rockefeller

________ was a pillar of the Baptist church.

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William Belknap

In 1876 grant administration forced secretary of war ________ to resign after pocketing bribes from suppliers in Indian reservations.

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Republicans Hardmoney policy

________ helped elect a democratic house of representative in 1874 and spa in the green back labor party in 1878 which elected 14 members of Congress.

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Demand

________ for greenbacks in coinage was just schemes to promote inflation.

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Jane Adams

________ dedicated herself to uplifting urban masses and establish the hull house, an American settlement house.

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Nativism

________ is the policy of protecting the native born.

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Civil War tariffs

________ were high to raise revenues for military machine.

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Morgan

________ was one of the episcopal church.

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Skyscrapers

________ allowed more people and workplaces to be packed onto one parcel of land.

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tariffs

The ________ meant higher taxes, lower wages, and higher unemployment.

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Lower barriers

________ would mean lower prices for consumers and less protection for monopolies.

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grand Army of Republic

The ________ influenced hundreds of military pension bills through Congress.

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Skyscrapers

________ allowed more people and workplaces to be packed until one parcel of land.

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