Midterm Study Doc

Grover Cleaveland

________ was the only president in history who served two non- concecutive terms in office as president.

Grover Cleveland

________: Democrat who wins the presidential election of 1884.

Sinking of the Maine

American Warship that exploded in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898.

Wade Davis Manifesto

________: Document produced by the radical Republicans in 1864.

inflationary currency

Democrats, westerners, farmers, and debtors support ________, or paper money.

Homestead act of 1862

The ________ A person only needed to claim 160 acres of land and if you improved it (build a structure) and lived on it for 5 years, it was cost- free.

James A Garfield

________ was shot early in his presidency by a disgruntled office seeker.

Grover Cleveland

Defeated Benjamin Harrison in the election of 1892, becoming the only president to serve two non- consecutive terms.

Rutherford B Hayes

________ was considered very fake and fraudulent

William Belknap

________ was the Secretary of Interior, observing all of the Indian reservations.

Garfields assassination

________ leads to the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Act.

Interstate Commerce Act of 1877

The ________ and the Sherman Antitrust act intended to cultivate competition to create more interstate trade and stop monopolies.

Wade Davis Manifesto

Document produced by the radical Republicans in 1864

Fourteenth Amendment

July 28, 1868, granted citizenship to all people born in the united states

Fifteenth Amendment

February 3, 1870, freedom of voting for all people including former slaves

Wade Davis Bill

1864, proposed by the radicals in response to the lenient 10% bill

Election of 1868

Both parties were pushing for Ulysses Grant

The Homestead act of 1862

A person only needed to claim 160 acres of land and if you improved it (build a structure) and lived on it for 5 years, it was cost-free

Interstate Commerce Act

1887, intended to promote competition and promote interstate commerce

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890, blocked monopolies and conspiracies

Grover Cleveland

Democrat who wins the presidential election of 1884

Charles Guiteau

disgruntled office seeker from Freeport, Illinois who kills President James A. Garfield on July 2nd, 188

Sinking of the Maine

American Warship that exploded in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898

Teller Amendment

1998, amendment added to the US constitution that said they wouldn’t annex Cuba after the war.

Open Door Policy in China

1899, policy created by Secretary of State John Hay that stated any nation could trade in China