American Pageant chapter 23
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jaredhofstra on January 5, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Bloody Shirt | appealing to war vets gets Grant elected in 1868 |
| Boss Tweed | employed bribery and fraud to scam New York out of $200million |
| Credit Mobilier | Union Pacific insiders form Credit Mobilier construction company, then hire themselves to build railroads at outrageous prices. |
| 1872 | Grant Reelected, Amnesty Act-reduced political disabilities and civil war tariffs |
| Panic of 1873 | Four year economic depression caused by overspeculation on railroads and western lands, and worsened by Grant's poor fiscal response (refusing to coin silver |
| Jim Crow Laws | Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Called for equal accommodation and prohibited racial discrimination. Ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court. |
| Election of 1876 | Race for the presidency between Republican Rutherford B Hayes and Democrat Samuel J Tilden. The decision of the winner came down to congress but no one knew which house should vote because the Senate was Republican and the House of Reps was Democratic. Congress created a Special Electoral Commission consisting of 5 senators, 5 House Reps, and 5 justices from the Supreme court. Votes went 8-7 in favor of Hayes. |
| Election of 1880 | Garfield won, but was assasinated, so his vice: Chestur Arthur took over. |
| Panic of 1893 | Serious economic depression beginning in 1893. Began due to rail road companies over-extending themselves, causing bank failures. Was the worst economic collapse in the history of the country until that point, and, some say, as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s. |
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