Read CH 23 (500-501 & mid 503-top 508 & mid 511- mid 514).
By the end of your reading, you should be able to:
describe the politcal corrutption of the Grant administration and the various efforts to clean up politics in the Gilded Age.
describe the economic slump of the 1870's and the growing conflict between "hard-money" and "soft-money" advocates.
explain the intense political activity of the Gilded age, despite the low quality of political leadership and the agreement of the two parties on most issues.
Vocab you are expected to be able to USE:
Fisk & Gould
corner (as in market)
Boss Tweed
Credit Mobilier
Horace Greely
censure
amnesty
civil service
pointees
unsecured loans
contraction (as in finance)
deflation
inflation
consensus
Kearneyites
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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