Major Political Events in 1868-1900s

Patronage

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

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.

Grand Army

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

Jim Fisk

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

1882

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

Whiskey ring

________ robbed the treasury of millions in excise tax revenue.

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.

Deflationary

________ affect the amount of money per capita decreased.

Horatio Seymour

________ refused to accept the Ohio idea.

Congress

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

Cleveland

________ in 1885 was the first Democratic president since Buchanan.

Rockefeller

________ was a pillar of the Baptist church.

William Belknap

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

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.

Demand

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

Jane Adams

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

Nativism

________ is the policy of protecting the native born.

Civil War tariffs

________ were high to raise revenues for military machine.

Morgan

________ was one of the episcopal church.

Skyscrapers

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

tariffs

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

Lower barriers

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

grand Army of Republic

The ________ influenced hundreds of military pension bills through Congress.

Skyscrapers

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