| A | B |
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| Resumption Act | lowered the number of greenbacks in circulation and started the redeeming of paper money at face value |
| Credit mobilier scandal | The company building the transcontinental railroad sub hired to get paid double. Many people in congress and even the VP were involved. |
| Whiskey Ring | People stole tax money from the government. Grant's secretary was involved. |
| Boss Tweed | Ran a local political district "Tammany Hall". Used bribes, rigged elections, and other scandals to control. |
| Samuel Tilden | Gained fame in prosecuting Tweed, ran against Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, barely lost |
| Thomas Nast | Political cartoonist that exposed Boss Tweed. |
| Liberal Republican Party | A new party intending to reform the scandals involved in the gilded age |
| Horace Greeley | Nomination for the Liberal Republican Party, editor of New York Times. Democrats supported them. |
| Horatio Seymour | Democratic candidate that ran against Ulysses S. Grant in his first term of election |
| "Jubilee" Jim Fisk and Jay Gould | Almost pulled off a scheme to corner the gold market to themselves |
| Compromise of 1877 | End of Reconstruction, North got Rutherford B. Hayes elected (after stalemate) , and South got removal of military from south |
| Causes of Panic of 1873 | Over building and bad loans |
| Coinage Act of 1873 | No more silver coins |
| Waving the Bloody Shirt | The symbol of the Republican political tactic of attacking Democrats with reminders of the Civil War |
| Gilded Age | Mark Twain's sarcastic name for the post-Civil War era, which emphasized its atmosphere of greed and corruption |
