Chapter 19

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Across
  1. 2. ___ ___'s Army was made for a demand of relief from the federal government.
  2. 4. The People's Party was commonly referred to as ________.
  3. 6. ____ ____ ____ was the first presidential candidate in American history to stump the country systematically.
  4. 9. The __________ ____ was the first national service measure requiring federal jobs be filled by competitive written exams.
  5. 10. At the Democratic convention of 1896, _____ ______ delegates initially advocated the free coinage of silver.
  6. 11. In the election of 1884, ______ __ _______ was known as "the Plumed Knight."
  7. 12. The ___________ Party was referred to as the party of "rum, Romanism, and rebellion."
  8. 15. Class, region, and both religious and ethnic differences defined the intense public ______ of the late 19th century.
  9. 16. The ____ _____ _____ Act of 1890 required that the government had to purchase silver and pay for it in gold.
  10. 18. The Populists "fused" with the Democrats because the Populist Party didn't want to weaken the ______ _______.
  11. 19. During Hays's presidency, he had one important initiative--to create a _____ _______ system--an idea that attracted no support from either party.
  12. 20. Half-breed James A. Garfield's attempt to defy the _______ led to his assassination after only four months in office.
  13. 21. Passed in 1887, the ______ ________ Act banned discrimination rates and required railroads to post rate schedules.
  14. 22. With only the recently administered system of annual pensions for Union Civil War veterans to boast of, the late 19th century US government was clearly not a modern, _________ government.
  15. 24. The election of ______ was the first since the Civil War to involve a clear question of economic difference between parties.
Down
  1. 1. In William Jennings Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech, the "you" in the statement, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold" represents defenders of the ______ _______.
  2. 3. In the late 1890s, the government's general ________ allowed the Republican and Democratic parties to avoid dealing with substantial issues.
  3. 5. The nation's returning prosperity beginning in 1898 revealed a close ______ between prosperity and the gold standard.
  4. 7. The acronym ICC stands for ______ ________ _______.
  5. 8. The __________ were the first major farm organization.
  6. 12. Before the Gold Standard Act of 1900, the ______ _______ ____ was passed under the McKinley Administration which raised duties to the highest point in US history.
  7. 13. By the end of Rutherford B. Hays's term, two groups--the Stalwarts and the Half-breeds--were competing for the ________ Party.
  8. 14. The _____ _______ ______ of 1900 stated gold was the only standard for exchanging paper notes.
  9. 17. Most people assumed currency was worthless unless it had something concrete behind it such as ____ ______.
  10. 23. The McKinley Tariff came into law in ____ _____.