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| What were Southern laws after Reconstruction which restricted movement and labor choices for ex-slaves? | Jim Crow |
| The use of gold AND silver as the monetary standard with fixed values is called? | Bimetallism |
| The monetary standard where Every Dollar is backed by and can be redeemed by a dollar's worth of gold is? | Gold standard |
| An association of American farmers organized in 1867 for their mutual welfare and advancement was? | The Grange. |
| This AFL organizer believed in "bread and butter" issues and that strikes and union contracts were labor's best weapons. | Samuel Gompers |
| What is the purpose of a high tariff? | It protects domestic industry from foreign competition. |
| What was "conspicuous consumption"? | The opulent and extravagant display of wealth. |
| In order to re-enter the Union after the Civil War, Radical republicans demanded that what per cent of eligible voters draft and approve a new constitution? | 50 per cent |
| What Constitutional amendment granted the right to vote to black males over 21? | XV |
| What landmark Supreme Court case set "separate but equal" standard for races? | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| What new political party was formed in 1892 by farmers from western and southern states? | Populist Party |
| Whose famus "cross of gold" speech still did not win him the Presidency? | William Jennings Bryan |
| What is the procedure in which voters could demand that key issues must be voted on by all voters, not just legislators? | Referendum |
| What costitutional amendment grants equal protection to all citizens (males)? | XIV |
| What Constitutional amendment abolished slavery? | XIII |
| What 1886 anarchist riot was blamed on the Knights of lLbor and led to the downfall of that union? | Haymarket Riot |
| Who were carpetbaggers? | Northerners who came South after 1865 to make a profit on the ruined economy. |
| What system was introduced in the south to replace plantation slavery? | Sharecropping |
| What group emerged in the South to terrorize freed slaves? | Ku Klux Klan |
| What are three ways Southern white legislatures regained political power? | Literacy test, grandfather clause, poll tax |
| What is the result of Deflation on the economy? | Prices and wages drop |
| What was a major change in Congress in the late 1800s? | Congressmen voted in favor of business, not farmers. |
| Miners became desperate when their wages were cut and their families thrown out of company-owned houses. What terrorist organization did they start? | Molly Maguires |
| What activist for women's rights was declared "guilty of voting" by a New York jury? | Susan B. Anthony |
| What new social class developed based on industrial wealth? | The leisure class |
| The increased irrelevance of leisure class wives was illiustrated in what famous short story by Charlotte Perkinds Gilman? | "The Yellow Wallpaper" |
| Who were the Goo-Goos? | Unsuccessful reform candidates |
| What was the name of New York City's powerful Democratic machine? | Tammany Hall |
| What were four organizations set up by religious groups in response to the needs of the urban poor? | They organized Salvation Army missions, the Hebrew Aid Society, St. Vincent St. Paul Society, and the YMCA. |
| What is "white flight"? | White families and churches move out of the cities as their neighborhoods become settled by immigrants. |
| Who started Chicago's famous settlement house to help immigrants? | Jane Addams at Hull House |
| What are ways that political machines used to get rich off public money? | Sandbagging, kickbacks, honest graft, influence peddling. |
| Why didn't citizens vote out the corrupt political machines? | Machines supplied patronage and social resources to needy people and they rigged elections through "vote early, vote often" techniques. |
| What two characteristics did most Presidents share in the second half of the 19th century? | They were Republican and had served as generals in the Civil War. |
| What wre the two important national political reforms adopted during the Gilded Age? | The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Pendleton Act. |
| Which Congressional law changed federal jobs from the spoils system to the merit system? | The Pendleton Act. |
| The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction in the southern states and put what REpublican into the White House? | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| What Populist Party ideas became accepted practice when they were championed by the two major political parties? | Initiative, recall, referendum, direct election of U.S. Senators, secret ballot, and graduated income tax. |
| What are 3 tactics employers used to stop union organizing? | Blacklist, yellow dog contract, and court injunction. |
| Where were two violent strikes which were put down by state or federal troops? | Homestead Steel in Pennsylvania and Pullman Palace Car Company near Chicago. |
