Gilded Age Politics

Grover Cleveland

Who was the only democratic president of the Gilded Age?

James Garfield

Who was the republican candidate in 1880? His assassination helped to bring about civil service reform?

Eugene Debs

Who was president of the American Railway Union and led the Pullman Strike?

Knights of Labor

What was the first group to be organized by industry rather than craft?

Harrison

Who lost the popular vote but won the electoral college?

Jacob Coxey

Who wanted the government to solve unemployment with a public works program?

Winfield Scott Hancock

Who was the democratic presidential candidate in 1880?

Frances Willard

What was the leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union?

Pullman Strike

What caused Cleveland to use federal troops to break up the strike to get the mail running?

Terrence Powderly

Who was the influential leader of the Knights of Labor?

Nativist

What group felt resentment toward new immigrants?

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

What was passed to dissolve large trusts and prevent monopolies?

American Federation of Labor

What labor group was dominated by old immigration skilled workers and represented the majority of the American workforce?

Election of 1884

What election was known for personal attacks on candidates?

Pendleton Act

What was the civil service reform act that was a result of the assassination of Garfield?

Grover Cleveland

Who vetoed many veterens' pension bills?

WCTU

What group attempted to ban alcohol?

Greenbacks

What group wanted an increase in the amount of money in circulation?

Samuel Gompers

Who was the president of the American Federation of Labor?

James Blaine

Who was the leader of the Half-Breeds and whose campagin was hurt by "Rum, Romanism & Rebellion?"

Pullman Strike

What was organized by Debs and was the first time the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was used against labor unions?

Charles Guiteau

Who assassinated Garfield?

Chester Arthur

Who was the corrupt official in charge of the New York Custom's House and a stalwart Lt. of Conkling, president after Garfield's assassination?

Knights of Labor

What was hurt irrevocably by the Haymarket Square riot, was open to many different people- women, unskilled workers, and blacks, and initially preferred to use boycotts over strikes?

Cross of Gold

What Phrase in WJ Bryan's speech at the Democratic Convention became the theme of his 1896 Presidential campaign?

Mckinley Tariff

What raised tarriff rates almost 50%?

Grover Cleveland

WHo supported tariff reform which did not help him regain presidency in 1888?

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

What allowed big business to find ways to use is to break up unions and strikes saying that they were prohibiting competition?

WIlliam Jennings Bryan

Who gained the Democratc nomination in 1896 because of his support for the unlimited coinage of silver?

Populist Party

What was originally formed by former members of the Farmer's Alliance and called for an income tax, bank regulation, government ownership of railroads, and unlimited coinage of silver?

Boss Tweed

Who ran the New York boss system/machine where the "bosses" determined patronage, candidates etc?

Silver Coinage

What was the major issue of the 1896 election?

John P. Altgeld

Who pardoned the surviving anarchists convicted in the Haymarket riot?

Wabash vs. Illinois

What challenge led to the Interstate Commerce Act which was upheld by Supreme Court and limited the right of state to regulate interstate commerce?

Roscoe Conkling

Who was the New York Senator who was the leader of the Stalwarts of the Republican party?

James Weaver

Who was the populist candidate for President in 1892?

Tammany Hall

What is the democratic political machine of New York?

Half-Breeds

What republican group supported some civil service reforms?

William Jennings Bryan

Who was the democratic presidential candidate in 1896 who gave the Cross of Gold Speech?

James Blaine

Who was the republican presidential candidate in 1884?

Grover Cleveland

What president wanted to lower the surplus by reducing the tariff?

Interstate Commerce Act

What outlawed the unfair pricing activities on the part of railroads but was not strictly enforced?

Mark Hanna

Who directed Mckinley's presidential campaign?

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

What required treasury to buy at current market at prices 4.5 billion ounces of silver monthly which was the amount being produced every month by the nation's silver mines?

1896

What election did Republicans gain control of the Presidency and Congress?

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

What bill didn't initially break up any major trusts?

William McKinley

Who was the republican presidential candidate in 1896 who was best known for his unpopular tariff?

Rutherford B. Hayes

Who became president because of the Compromise of 1877 and civil service reformer?

Grand Army of Republic

What group did Cleveland attempt to curb by investigating all of their pension claims for fraud?

Plessy v. Fergurson

What court case decided separate but equal?

Coinage Act

What was called the Crime of '73 where the Treasury department stopped coining silver?

Credit Moblier

What 1872 Grant scandal involved the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad by the Union Pacific Railroad. Congressman were give shares of stock and cash brives in exchange for favorable legislation?

Tariffs

What was the major issue of the 1888 election?

Haymarket Square

What strike in Chicago was led by the Knights of Labor?

Benjamin Harrison

What republican candidate won the election of 1888?

Bland-Allison Act

What 1878 act veto by Hayes required the Treasury to buy $2-$4 million in silver every year and mint it into coins but did not circulate the coins?

Grover Cleveland

Who was the first democratic president in 28 years?

Jim Crow Laws

What allowed racial segregation at public facilities?

Stalwarts

What republican faction was opposed to reforms?

Mugwumps

What were republicans who favored reform and supported Cleveland for president in 1884 called?

Wind of populist change

Tornado

everyman

Dorthy

Pro-abition

Toto

West

Kansas

Bankers, industrialist- gold

Wicked Witch of the East

Industrial Worker

Tim Woodsman

Farmers

Scarecrow

William Jennings Bryan

Cowardly Lion

Gold standard

Yellow Road

Silver Coinage

Silver Slippers

Voters in midwest; populist

Wicked Witch of the South

Washington D.C.

Emerald City

Onces

Oz

President

WIzard

support gold standard

Munchkins

Natural disasters on farmers

Wicked Witch of the West

Native Americans

Flying Monkeys

asian immigrants

Yellow Winkies