1. Politics and Reform

2. True or False?
Poll taxes violated the 14th Amendment

3. False.

4. Executions without proper court proceedings.

5. What are lynchings?

6. When government jobs with to supporters of the winning political party

7. What is patronage?

8. First government agency formed to regulate interstate commerce.

9. What is the Interstate Commerce Commission, or ICC?

10. Increase in the value of money.

11. What is deflation?

12. The People’s Party.

13. What is the Populist Party?

14. Paper currency that could not be exchanged for gold or silver coins.

15. What are greenbacks?

16. People who supported reforming the spoils system.

17. What are “Halfbreeds”?

18. Tax that taxed higher earnings more heavily.

19. What is a graduated income tax?

20. Decline in the value of money.

21. What is inflation?

22. Farm organization.

23. What is the Grange?

24. Supporters of the spoils system.

25. What were “Stalwarts”?

26. Partial refunds and lower rates because of the volume of goods shipped.

27. What is a rebate?

28. Allowed the president to decide which federal jobs would be filled according to rules laid down by the civil service commission.

29. What is the Pendleton Act?

30. Marketing organizations that worked for the benefit of the farmers.

31. What are cooperatives?

32. Believed the currency should be based on gold.

33. What are “Goldbugs”?

34. Populist candidate for president in 1896.

35. Who was William Jennings Bryan?

36. Believed coining silver in unlimited amounts would solve the nation’s economic crisis?

37. What are Silerites?

38. Democrat candidate for president in 1884 election.

39. Who was Grover Cleveland?

40. Group that thought of themselves as “moral leaders”; left the Republican party and supported Cleveland.

41. Who are the “Mugwumps”

42. African American journalist who launched a crusade against lyching.

43. Who is Ida Wells?

44. Tax paid by African Americans in order to vote.

45. What is a poll tax?

46. Influential educator that suggested that African Americans concentrate on achieving economic goals rather than political ones.

47. Who is Booker T. Washington?

48. This allowed any man to vote if he had an ancestor on the voting rolls in 1867.

49. What is the grandfather clause?

50. Republican candidate who won the presidency in the Election of 1896.

51. Who was William McKinley?

52. This tariff cut rates on such items as raw sugar but raised rates on others, such as textiles.

53. What is the McKinley Tariff?

54. From 1877 to 1896 the Democrats controlled this house of Congress.

55. What is the U.S. House of Representatives?