| A political scandal of the Grant era in which
U. S. Congressmen were bribed not to investigate
the illegal practices of a railroad construction
company. |
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| State and local laws that discriminated against
African Americans by denying them access
to "white-only" railroad cars,
restaurants, and other public facilities. |
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| These progressive Republicans did not like
the dishonest policy of the conservative
Republicans and, therefore, supported Democratic
candidate, Grove Cleveland, for president
in the 1884 election. |
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| This law gave three civil service commissioners
the power to conduct competitive exams for
prospective government workers in an effort
to replace incompetent bureaucrats. |
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| This group of distillers bribed federal agents
to avoid paying the Treasury Department millions
of dollars in excise taxes. |
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| The regular and conservative branches of
the Republican party in the 1880s. |
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| This Supreme Court case approved of the practice
of segregating public facilities provided
that they were separate but equal. |
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| He was the Republican leader who managed
President McKinley's 1896 campaign. |
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| In a famous speech, he advocated free silver
and part of the Omaha Platform. |
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| This 1890 law was devised to cut surplus
revenue and continue protection for American
industries. The average duty rate of over
50% angered Latin Americans and Europeans. |
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| This group demanded the circulation of paper
money and other reforms. |
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| The more liberal faction of the Republican
Party in the 1880s. |
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