Political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common peopleĪn exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of a policy When congress votes for an unnecessary internal improvement project so a member can get more district popularity The system of trading civil service jobs for votes in an electionĪllowed farmers to have more credit they were allowed to use harvested crops to pay back their loans Term coined by Mark Twain time period characterized by rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration rise of big business and labor movement Got rid of cheap paper money and replaced it with gold at face value The amount of money per capita decreased between 18 Paper money supported by poor and debtors People's Party leader had early success became a vicious racist Nominated by People's Party in 1892 got support from midwest and west prominent showing in election Last veteran of the civil war to be elected president in election of 1896 Speaker of the house dominated the "Billion Dollar Congress" gave pensions and increased purchase of silver "waving the bloody shirt", elected president in 1888 Republican grandson of William H. Garfield's VP who became president after the assassination a surprising reformer the Republican party grew to hate himĭemocratic nominee in 1880 US Army officer notable for his leadership at the Battle of GettysburgĪssassinated Garfield because he wanted an office positionĭemocratic nominee in the election of 1884 reformer revealed he had an affair with a widow which led to mudslinging and he barely won Republican candidate in the election of 1880 waver of the "bloody shirt" energetic and able assassinated in 1881 which shocked the Republicans into reforming the spoils system Led Half-Breed faction of the Republican party called for civil service reformĪ compromise candidate chosen by the Republicans in 1876 from Ohioĭemocratic nominee in the election of 1876 had fame from the Tweed incident Leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican party supported Grant swapped civil service jobs for votes The "brains" of the plot to corner the gold market in 1869 by bidding the price of gold very high so the US treasury was forced to release goldĪ cartoonist of the New York Times who exposed the Tweed RingĮndorsed by Democrats in the 1872 election had unsound political judgementsįinanced the Union during the Civil War Jay Cooke & Company The "brass" of the plot to corner the gold market in 1869 by bidding the price of gold very high so the US treasury was forced to release gold Most popular Civil War hero Republican narrow cultural background won 1868 election against Horatio Seymourĭemocratic nominee in election of 1868 supported by whites lost
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