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Mugwumps - correct answer ✔Educated and upper-class reformers who
crusaded for lower tariffs, limited federal government, and civil service reform.
They were best known for helping elect Grover Cleveland president in 1884.
(Former republicans that switched parties)


Exodusters - correct answer ✔A group of about 6,000 African Americans
who left Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in 1879, for freer lives as farmers
or laborers in 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 ✔A loose coalition of prewar Democrats,
Confederate veterans, and Whigs who took over southern state governments
in the 1870s, supposedly "redeeming" them from the corruption of
Reconstruction.


Dawes Severalty Act - correct answer ✔Legislation passed by Congress in
1887 that aimed to break up traditional Indian life by promoting individual land
ownership. It divided tribal lands into small plots that were distributed among
members of each tribe. Provisions were made for education and eventual
citizenship. The law led to corruption and exploitation and weakened tribal
culture.


Ghost Dances - correct answer ✔A religious movement that arose in the late
nineteenth century under the prophet Wavoka, a Paiute Indian. It involved a
set of dances and rites that its followers believed would cause white men to
disappear and restore lands to the Native Americans. The Ghost Dance

, religion was outlawed by the U.S. government, and army intervention to stop it
led to the Wounded Knee Massacre.


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


"Boss" Tweed - correct answer ✔William Tweed, an American politician most
notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political
machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City
and State


Presidential Election of 1876 - correct answer ✔the Democratic candidate
(Samuel Tilden) won the popular vote but fell one vote short of victory in the
electoral college, while the Republican candidate (Rutherford B. Hayes)
initially fell nineteen electoral votes short of victory. Hayes became president
after agreeing with Democrats to withdraw federal troops from South and end
Reconstruction (Compromise of 1877)


Presidential Election of 1896 - correct answer ✔* William Jennings Bryan
(Populist and Dem) v. William McKinley (Rep.)
Populists, the angry farmers, formed a 3rd political party
* Key Issues: Economic crisis, Gold and silver, railroad regulation, tariffs, fair
elections, income tax
* McKinley defeated Bryan
* Many of the populist ideas for better government were adopted years later
* Republicans will took control of government for the next


Social Darwinism - correct answer ✔The belief that only the fittest survive in
human political and economic struggle. (English philosopher Herbert Spencer)

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