Crash Course Gilded Age Politics Video Notes

1. The Gilded Age gets the name from a book written by Charlie Dudley Warner and what other famous author?
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2. The book “The Gilded Age” was centered on what of the time period? _______________________________
3. What does Green say was one of the greatest political inventions? ____________________________________
4. The famous political machine was Tammany Hall, located in the city of _____________________________
5. The Mystery Document indicates that corruption is just fine if it makes you rich, so much so that the author
refers to it as “honest _________________”
6. The biggest corrupt politician of the day was William ____________________________.
7. In exchange for the help these political machines gave to the poor and immigrant classes, the machine wanted
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8. When voter fraud was not enough, many political machines chose to use what two methods?
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9. The political party accused of taking bribes during the “King of Frauds” scandal was the _________________
10. What was the second great scandal of the time? _________________________________________________
11. Which one-term president was assassinated during this time of corrupt politics? ________________________
12. Which president served two terms but not right after the other? _____________________________________
13. Which party was interested in tariffs? ________________________________
14. The Sherman Antitrust Act was designed to break up monopolies but instead was usually used against what
types of organizations? ______________________________
15. Some of the labor reforms limited the work day to _________ hours
16. The laws of the south which limited the rights of African Americans were called _______________________
17. What issue got farmers of the west politically active? _____________________________________________
18. The biggest thing to come out of the Farmers Alliance was ________________________________________
19. The Populist, or People’s Party, supported government ownership of ______________________, a graduated
________________ tax, government control of currency, rights of laborers to form _________________, and
free coinage of ________________.
20. What were the two “great classes” that Populists wanted to reach?
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21. Wyoming was so Populist, what group was given the right to vote? ____________________________
22. The coinage of _______________ was believed to make farmers’ lives better by allowing them to pay off their
debts and earn more money, but many opposed it because they feared it would cause __________________.
23. Who was the most prominent Populist candidate? _______________________________________
24. William Jennings Bryan lost the 1896 election to __________________________________, who was
overwhelmingly supported by the _____________________ classes.
25. New journalists called ______________________ began exposing corruption in government through the press.
26. Even though they were defeated at the polls, many ideas of the Populists such as the graduated income tax and
direct election of __________________ became mainstream.