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Ch. 16 IDs. 1.) Spoils System. When – Act in which elected politicians give government jobs to friends and supporters Significance – Causes corruption and incompetence at different government levels and will eventually split the Republican Party. 2.) Stalwarts and Half-breeds. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Ch. 16 IDs
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1.) Spoils System
• When – Act in which elected politicians give government jobs to friends and supporters
• Significance – Causes corruption and incompetence at different government levels and will eventually split the Republican Party
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2.) Stalwarts and Half-breeds
• What – Stalwarts are Republicans who are in favor of the spoils system while Half-breeds wanted reform
• Significance – This divisions will eventually cause the assassination of James Garfield
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3.) Garfield/Guiteau
• What – Charles Guiteau, a disgruntled Stalwart, shoots and kills President Garfield
• When – 1881• Significance – Will turn everyone against the
spoils system and lead to the Pendleton Civil Service Act
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4.) Pendleton Civil Service Act
• What – Legislation that makes people take an aptitude test in order to qualify for a number of government jobs
• Significance – Brings an end to the corruption and ineptitude of the spoils system
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5.) Wabash v. Illinois
• What – Supreme Court ruling that states that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate trade
• When – 1886• Significance – – 1.) Leads to the creation of the ICC– 2.) Inadvertently ends laissez faire economics
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6.) Interstate Commerce Commission
• What – Government agency created to regulate interstate trade
• Significance – – 1.) One of the first independent government
agencies– 2.) Government takes a more active role in
regulating the economy
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7.) Sherman Antitrust Act
• What- Legislation that made trusts illegal• When – 1890• Significance – Sets precedent (Most politicians
were too afraid to use it until T. Roosevelt)
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8.) The Grange
• What – One of the oldest farming organizations in the US
• When – 1867• Significance – Will cause farmers to start
coming together and forming cooperatives/working together
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9.) Farmers’ Alliance
• What – Large farmer’s exchange • When – 1877• Where – Begins in Texas• Significance – Failures of the alliance will
cause farmers to get more political/form the Populist Party
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10.) Panic of 1873
• What – Economic recession caused by railroad failures and the removal of silver from circulation
• Significance – Leads to the formation of the Populist Party
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11.) Panic of 1893
• What – Economic depression caused by failure of multiple railroad companies
• Significance – Greatest depression in US to its time
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12.) Populist Party
• What – Political party consisting mostly of farmers from the Midwest and parts of the South
• Significance – Will become very successful in the late 1800s and will introduce a number of reforms that will be passed by later generations
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13.) “Front Porch Campaign”
• What – William McKinley’s campaign for presidency
• When – 1896• Significance – Popular method used in the late
1800s, gives the candidate the image of the “local man” working for everybody
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14.) De Facto Segregation
• What – Segregation by choice• Significance – De facto is seen everywhere and
proves to be more difficult to defeat than segregation by law
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15.) Jim Crow Laws
• What – Segregation laws• Where – South• Significance – Will lead to the treatment of AA
as second-class citizens
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16.) Grandfather Clause
• What – Law that states that if your grandfather could vote, then you could vote
• Significance – Loophole that still kept blacks from voting, while allowing poor whites
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17.) Plessy v. Ferguson
• What – Court ruling that said segregation was legal
• When – 1896• Significance – Creates the “separate but
equal” doctrine
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18.) Booker T. Washington
• Who – African American leader• Significance – – 1.) Creates the Tuskegee Institute– 2.) Promoted economic success over immediate
political equality (gradualism)
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19.) Atlanta Compromise
• What – Speech made by Booker T. Washington• When – 1895• Significance – Washington introduces his
gradualist beliefs
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20.) W.E.B. DuBois
• Who – African American leader• Significance – – 1.) Will help create and lead the NAACP– 2.) Will formulate the effort to grant AA full
political equality immediately