Amsco AP US History Chapter 19 fully solved graded A+

Amsco AP US History Chapter 19Gilded Age - correct answers A name for the late 1800s, coined by Mark Twain to describe the tremendous increase in wealth caused by the industrial age and the ostentatious lifestyles it allowed the very rich. The great industrial success of the U.S. and the fabulous lifestyles of the wealthy hid the many social problems of the time, including a high poverty rate, a high crime rate, and corruption in the government. Stalwarts - correct answers A faction of the Republican party led by Conkling in the end of the 1800s. Supported the political machine and patronage. Conservatives who opposed civil service reform. Halfbreeds - correct answers -Opposed the Stalwarts -Members of the republican party who favored reform-especially civil service reform. -Led by James G. Blaine of Maine, a congressman Mugwumps - correct answers Republicans who did not play the patronage game were ridiculed for "sitting on the fence." They had their "mugs" on one side of the fence and their "wumps" on the other. Pendleton Act - correct answers Passed in 1883, an Act that created the Civil Service Commission so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage. Greenback Party - correct answers Formed in 1876 in reaction to economic depression, this party favored insurance of unsecured paper money to help farmers repay debts, the movement for free coinage of silver took the place of the greenback movement by the 1880's Crime of 1873 - correct answers The term used to refer to the passage of the Coinage Act of 1873. It fully embraced the Gold Standard. Western mining interests and others who wanted silver in circulation called the Act the "Crime of '73" Bland-Allison Act - correct answers 1878 - Authorized coinage of a limited number of silver dollars and "silver certificate" paper money. First of several government subsidies to silver producers in depression