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Mugwumps - correct answer ✔A group of renegade Republicans who
supported 1884 Democratic presidential nominee Grover Cleveland instead of
their party's nominee, James G. Blaine.


Exodusters - correct answer ✔African Americans who moved from post
reconstruction South to Kansas.


Assimilationists - correct answer ✔Wanted to eradicate tribal life and
assimilate Native Americans into white culture through education, land policy,
and federal law.


Redeemers - correct answer ✔Southern Democratic politicians who sought
to wrest control from Republican regimes in the South after Reconstruction.


Dawes Severalty Act - correct answer ✔Bill that promised Indians tracts of
land to farm in order to assimilate them into white culture. The bill was
resisted, ineffective, and disastrous to Indian tribes


Ghost Dances - correct answer ✔Religion practiced by Lakota tribesmen in
response to the repeated incursions by the American settlers. Ghost dancers
thought that a Native American messiah would come and banish the whites,
return the buffalo, and give all former Native American land back to the Native
Americans. Worried territorial officials had Sitting Bull arrested (he was later
killed under uncertain circumstances) and killed another 240 Lakota at
Wounded Knee Creek.


Scalawags - correct answer ✔A derogatory term for white Southerners who
supported Reconstruction following the Civil War.

, "Boss" Tweed - correct answer ✔William Tweed, head of Tammany Hall,
NYC's powerful democratic political machine in 1868. Between 1868 and 1869
he led the Tweed Reign, a group of corrupt politicians in defrauding the city.
Example: Responsible for the construction of the NY court house; actual
construction cost $3million. Project cost tax payers $13million.


Presidential Election of 1876 - correct answer ✔Rutherford B. Hayes and
Samuel J. Tilden tied in an election. Democrats said, "Hayes can be president
if you get rid of the troops here in the south," Thus ending reconstruction


Presidential Election of 1896 - correct answer ✔Republican William McKinley
defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a campaign considered by
historians to be one of the most dramatic and complex in American history. It
ushered in a long period of Republican political power.


Social Darwinism - correct answer ✔The application of ideas about evolution
and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification
for their imperialist expansion.


Imperialism - correct answer ✔A policy of extending a country's power and
influence through diplomacy or military force.


Carpet Baggers - correct answer ✔a northerner who came to or stayed in the
South after the civil war for political or financial gain


Rough Riders - correct answer ✔Volunteer regiment of US Cavalry led by
Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish American War


Andrew Johnson - correct answer ✔17th President of the United States, A
Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became
president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts

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