APUSH Chapter 23 Flashcards

The idea that greenbacks should be exchanged for gold, in order to keep the interest rates low on poorer farmers.

They devised a plot to raise the price of the gold market in 1869.

It was the collapse of the market as a result of the Fisk and Gould scandal on September 24, 1869.

<p>He employed bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections to milk New York of as much as $200 million.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It involved Union Pacific Railroad insiders forming the Credit Mobilier company and hiring themselves at inflated prices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They imported whiskey and used their offices to avoid paying taxes, cheating the treasury out of millions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was the Secretary of War who resigned after pocketing bribes from suppliers to the Indian reservations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They were created in response to disgust over political corruption in Washington and military Reconstruction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was the presidential candidate of the Liberal Republican Party.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Over-speculating was the primary cause, with too many people unable to pay back loans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It required the government to withdraw greenbacks and redeem all paper currency in gold at face value starting in 1879.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was a policy where the Treasury began accumulating gold stocks to prepare for metallic money payments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was the Republican presidential candidate in the election of 1876.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was the Democrat presidential candidate in the election of 1876.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It agreed to end military occupation of the South in exchange for votes for the Republican presidential candidate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It set up an electoral commission to determine the winner of the election.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Supreme Court allowed segregation, stating the 14th amendment only prohibited government denial of civil rights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They were white Democrats who used their power to oppress the Black community.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Storekeepers extended credit to small farmers in exchange for a lien on their harvests.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They were laws designed to enforce segregation of Blacks from Whites in public places.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A strike by railroad workers in 1877 that ended with federal troops suppressing the laborers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was an Irishman who incited followers to violently abuse Chinese.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It prohibited all further immigration from China.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was a Republican presidential candidate.</p> Signup and view all the answers