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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH 6.13 EXAM
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Question 1: Election of 1896 Pt 2
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Republicans elected WIlliam McKinley of Ohio & Marcus(Mark) Hanna(financial power behind McKinley's nomination), running for a ?tariff & blaming Democrats for Panic of 1893
Question 2: Gold Bug Democrats
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those who split and made the National Democratic Party or voted Republican because they favored the gold standard, loyal to Cleveland
Question 3: Election of 1888
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Republicans won the electoral vote, unusually controlling presidency & both houses for next two years
Question 4: Mugwumps
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those who did not do patronage; made fun of for sitting on the fence with mugs and wumps on different sides
Question 5: Democrat Supporters
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Catholics, Lutherans, Jews who objected temperance * other mvmts, northern support from political machines & immigrants Jeffersonian ideas?states' rights & limiting govt power
Question 6: 1874 Greenback Party forms
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1860s, money not backed by specie issued as emergency measure?N. Farmers got high prices for war, prospering?Specie Resumption Act withdrew them as creditors & investors thought it violated natural law?Greenback Party formed, who supported the money
Question 7: McKinley Tariff Act of 1890
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?tariff to peacetime high of 48%
Question 8: 1883 Pendleton Act
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made Civil Service Commission, people competed w/ exam scores for jobs+kept civil servants from making political contributions?politicians switched getting sponsored by party members to by the rich
Question 9: Election of 1896
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WIlliam Jennings Bryan was elected for his "Cross of Gold" Speech by prosilver Democrats, going for
an unlimited silver coinage of 16:1?the Populist's main issue was taken over
Question 10: Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
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first attempt to regulate big business, imposing strict fines for now illegal trusts
Question 11: Impacts of Election of 1896 Part 2
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Republicans dominant in 7/9 prez elections & both houses 17/20 next sessions?Democrats were a defeated, sectionalist host of remaining Populism, which declined after 1896?in the Progressive era(1900-17), both parties took on parts of the Populist agenda
Question 12: 1878 Bland Allison Law
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passed over Hayes' veto Limited coinage $2-4 million in silver each month at the standard silver-to-gold ratio of 16 to 1.This didn't satisfy farmers and others, pushing for unlimited coinage
Question 13: 1881
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In the Election of 1880, the Halfbreed James
- Garfield won, and mostly gave jobs to his "faction"?a Stalwart officer in 1881 shot him while he was
boarding a train for summer vacation
Question 14: Election of 1896 Pt 3
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Hanna did most of the campaigning, funded by big business leaders who feared "silver lunacy" inflation Bryan used charisma, traveling nationwide & giving 600+ speeches Silver votes split between Populists & Democrats
Question 15: Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
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silver strikes in Nevada??coinage of silver, not enough for farmers or miners though
Question 16: Impacts of Election of 1896
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THe Election of 1896 was a win for the big business, conservative economic, & middle class values, and rural American identity's last hurrah for yeomanism
Question 17: Election of 1896 Pt 4
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Bryan's support died out since:
Wheat prices?, farmers less desperate Employers said factories will close if Bryan won
Question 18: Republican Supporters
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often waved the "bloody shirt" to get votes from veterans, reminding how Lincoln was killed by a Democrat Hamiltonian, Whig ideas?pro-business w/ high tariff Middle class, reformers, Anglo-Saxon PRotestants, African-Americans
Question 19: Crime of 1873
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Congress stopped coining silver in the "Crime of 1873"?silver strikes in Nevada?demand to start using silver again to expand money supply
Question 20: 1890
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Republicans passed unpopular legislation-prohibiting alcohol & laws making business close on SUnday?voters who were not Anglo-SAxon or Protestant reelected Democrats in Elections of 1890
Question 21: Omaha Platform
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Direct popular election of Senators vs by state legislature Initiatives & referendums allowing people to directly vote on legislation Unlimited silver coinage Graduated income tax-higher income, higher tax paid 8hr workday for industrial workers
Question 22: 1892 Populist Party forms based on Omaha Platform
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Growing Southern & Western agrarian discontent?farmers' ALliances met in Omaha, Nebraska in 1892: Omaha Platform
Question 23: Mckinley's Luck
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McKinley was lucky to get into office during economic revival-gold strikes in 1897, Alaska, ?money supply, inflation, and the stock market-he was the leader during the SPanish-American war