4th Six Weeks: Homework 1 (1/7/2016)
Homework #1: Politics of the Gilded Age (Due 1/7/2016)
- Read and outline textbook pages 514-518, 521-526.
- Learn the following key terms for Friday’s quiz:
“dark horse”
James A. Garfield Stalwarts (see pp. 507-8) James G. Blaine Roscoe Conkling Chester Arthur |
Pendleton Act
Mugwumps Grover Cleveland Farmer’s Alliance Populists James B. Weaver |
Thomas Watson
Panic of 1893 William Jennings Bryan J.P. Morgan Wilson-Gorman Tariff plutocrat |
3. Answer the following reading questions:
- Why was James A. Garfield assassinated?
- What legislation was the result of Garfield’s assassination?
- How did the phrase “rum, romanism, and rebellion” influence the presidential election of 1884?
- How did the presidential election of 1892 influence voting rights in the South? Why?
- Why did Cleveland push for the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?