Guided Notes
Chapter 1; Politics and Reform
Section 1
I. A Campaign to Clean Up Politics (pages 364–365)
A. Under the ____________ ____________, or _________________, government _______
went to ________________ of the _____________ party in an election. By the late _______,
many Americans believed that ________________ _________________ those who
______________for the __________________. They began a ________________ to _________
the __________ ____________.
B. President ________________B. __________ _____________ the practice of
________________. The “____________”— a group of ________________ _______________
________________ who strongly ______________ ___________ ___________ reform—
accused ____________ of ____________ civil service _____________ to create
______________ for his _______ _____________. Civil service ________________ were called
“__________________.”
C. The _________________ ________________ for the _____________ of ___________ were a
________________, ___________ ______________ for ______________, and the
______________, _________________ _____________ for ________ president. They
__________ the election.
D. President _____________ was _______________ a _______ months into his presidency. He
was ___________ by a _____________ who _____________ a civil ___________ job through
the ____________ ________________.
E. In 1883 ______________ passed the _______________ __________. This civil service
______________ act _______________ the _______________ to _____________ which federal
___________ would be __________ according to _________ set up by a _______________ Civil
_______________ _________________. Candidates __________________ for ____________
jobs through ___________________. _____________________ could be made
____________from the _____________ of those who took the ______________. Once
__________________ to a job, a civil service _____________ could not be _____________ for
_________________ reasons.
II. Two Parties, Neck and Neck (pages 365–366)
A. A major _____________ that _______ new ___________ were introduced in the _______
and _________ was because the _______________ had _____________ of the _____________
of ____________________ and the __________________ had the ________________ of the
______________.
B. Both the _________________ and the _________________ were _______ organized in the
late 1800s. The _______________ elections were _________ with __________ margins
between ________ and _________. In ________ and __________, the __________________
candidate ________ the ______________ __________, but _______ the ___________ vote
and the _____________.
C. The __________________ _________ _________ of the ________ _________________
elections between __________ and __________. Then _______________ ________________
the __________ of ________________, however, and the _____________ was
___________________ by _______________ who did ________ necessarily ___________ with
the ________________ on ____________.
III. Democrats Reclaim the White House (pages 366–367)
A. In the ________________ election of __________, _________________ remained
_______________ over ________________. _________________ nominated Governor
______________ ____________________ of New York, a _________________ who
opposed _______________ ______________.
B. ___________________ nominated _____________ G. _____________, a _____________
_______________ of the ___________ of Representatives. _____________ was
_______________ among ____________________ Party _____________.
C. A major ____________ in the ________________ was __________________ in American
___________________. _____________ focused on the ______________ of each candidate.
D. Some _________________ _______________, called “__________________,”
_____________ _____________ so ____________ that they ________ the ______________ to
______________ the ___________________ candidate Grover ______________. The
_____________________ did ________ like ______________ connection with the
____________ _______________ _________________.
E. _________________ admitted to having _______________ a ____________ ten years earlier
and _______________ the ______________ of the ___________________ for his
_________________.
F. ______________ tried to _____________ ____________ _____________ to _________
___________________ because _______ mother was an ___________ Catholic. His tactic
__________________, and _______________ was ____________ ____________________.
IV. A President Besieged by Problems (pages 367–368)
A. Many _______________ of President Grover _______________ ____________
_________________jobs after his election to office.
B. Many _____________ occurred ___________ Cleveland’s administration. __________ and
paid guards sometimes ______________ the _____________. A __________ exploded at a
____________ demonstration in _________________ Square in Chicago.
C. __________ businesses and ____________ became __________ at _______________
because they paid ________ rates for _____________ goods, but ____________ corporations
were given _____________, or ____________ refunds, and _______________ rates for
shipping ___________.
D. Both _________________ and ____________________ believed that ___________________
should ________ interfere with ___________________ ______________ rights. In _________
the _________ Court ruled in the case of _______________ v. _____________ that the state of
Illinois could ________ restrict the _________ that the _____________ Railroad
_____________ for _____________ between ________________ because _____________ the
_______________ government _____________ regulate _______________ commerce.
E. In ________ a _______ was signed creating the ____________ _______________
__________________. This was the __________ law to _____________ interstate
_______________.
F. Many Americans _____________ to do ___________ with __________ ____________
because they ____________ that __________ American _______________ could
_________________ ___________________. They wanted ________________ to _________
_____________ because these ____________ caused an ______________ in the ____________
of _________________ goods.
G. President _______________ proposed ______________ tariffs, but ______________ was
_________________over the issue. _________ ________________ became a __________ issue
in the election of _________.
V. Republicans Regain Power (pages 368–369)
A. The ______________ candidate in the ________ election was _______________
___________. His ________________ was __________ large ___________________ by
_________________ who ______________ tariff _________________. The
___________________ candidate was _________________. He was ____________ ________
tariff _________. Harrison ________ the ____________ by winning the _________________
vote, but __________ the _____________ vote.
B. As a ____________ of the election of 1888, _________________ gained ____________ of
____________ houses of _______________ and the ____________ House. The
________________ were _________ to __________ legislation on issues of ___________
concern.
C. The _____________ ___________ ________ tariff rates on _________ goods, but
_______________ the ____________ of ___________. It _______________ _______________
________________ and _________ the _____________ with a __________ _____________.
D. A _______ _________ _______ passed in ________ for ____________ furthered
_______________ the federal ______________.
E. The ______________ _____________ _________ of 1890 made ________ _____________,
although the __________ did __________ to ___________ the ___________.
Section 2
I. Unrest in Rural America (pages 372–374)
A. In the 1890s, a _______________ movement called ______________ emerged to
______________ the ______________ power of ____________ and to work for
______________________ for __________________ ______________.
B. The nation’s ___________ supply _____________ farmers. To ___________ ____________
the ____________ in the Civil ________, the government ___________ millions of
____________ in ____________________, or _____________ ______________ that
could ________ be _________________ for __________ or _________ coins. This _________
__________________ in the _______________ supply ________________ a rapid
__________________ in ____________ for __________ caused ______________—a
_______________ in the _______________ of ____________. The ____________ of goods
greatly _________________.
C. To get ________________ under ______________, the ______________ government
______________ printing __________________ and started ___________ off ___________.
Congress also ________________ making __________ into ______________. As a result, the
country did ________ have a __________ enough _____________ supply to meet the
_________ of the ______________ economy. This led to ______________—or an
________________ in the __________ of __________________ and a ______________ in the
general level of ______________.
D. _________________ forced most ______________ to ______________ money to
____________ their crops. The ____________ supply of ___________________ caused an
________________ in _______________ _____________ that the farmers ____________.
E. Some ______________ wanted ________ _______________ printed to ___________ the
money supply. Others _______________ the government to _________ _________ coins.
F. The ____________ was a _______________farm __________________ founded for
_______________ and ____________________ purposes. When the _____________
experienced a __________________, ______________ numbers of farmers joined the
______________ for help. The _____________ _____________ its focus to ____________ to
the ______________ of farmers.
G. ________________ put their ____________ together and created _______________—
__________________ organizations that ____________ to ________its members. The
__________________ ______________ members’ _____________ and ________ them off the
______________ to _________ the __________ to ___________. ____________ could
negotiate ______________ ______________ rates from railroads.
H. The _______________ was _____________ to ________________ the economic conditions
of ________________. By the late 1870s, many farmers __________ the ___________ and
joined _______________ organizations that offered to __________ them solve their problems.
II. The Farmers’ Alliance (pages 374–375)
A. The ______________ _______________ was ____________ in 1877. By __________ it had
between ______ and 3 __________ members with ____________ in the ____________ and on
the __________ _____________.
B. The __________ organized large ___________________ called ________________ for the
purpose of ______________ farm prices _________ and ______________ ____________ to
farmers at ________ interest _________. These ________________ mostly ___________.
Many exchanges ______________________ themselves by _______________ ____ much
money at _________ interest rates that were _________ __________. ___________________,
______________________, ______________________, and __________ ______________
against the ________________. The exchanges were too __________ to dramatically
___________ ___________ prices for ____________ products.
C. Members of the ________________ Alliance formed the ______________ __________, or
_______________, to ________ for __________ _______________ that would ____________
farmers _____________ their problems.
D. Most _____________ leaders of the ______________ _____________ the ____________
Party because they ______________ the _________________ to ___________ _____________
of the ___________. One Southern ______________, ______________ _____________, came
up with a ____________________ plan to ______ up ___________________ where farmers
could ___________ their ____________ to ____________ prices ________.
III. The Rise of Populism (pages 375–378)
A. In 1890 the _______________ Alliance issued the ___________ ____________ to _______
farmers _________________ ________________ in the 1890 elections. The ______________
included the _____________ of the _____________________ plan, the ____________ coinage
of _____________, an ___________ to ______________ ______________ and
______________ _____________, tighter _________________ of the ________________, and
________________ election of ____________________ by ________________.
B. Many _______-Alliance _____________________ were _________ to office in the
___________.
C. By early _________, ______________ members of the ____________ began to
____________ that ___________________ were __________ going to ________ their
________________ to the ________________ and they were ____________ to __________ the
________________Party and ______ the _______________ __________.
D. In _______ 1892, the _______________ Party held its ______ _______________ convention
where it _________________ ____________ B. _____________ to ______ for
_______________. The _____________ __________ ______________ called for
______________ coinage of _____________, ____________ ownership of ______________,
and a _________________ ______________ ________, one that ______ _________ earnings
more ____________. It also called for an _______-hour ______________, ________________
of _________________, and _______________ the _____ of __________________.
E. _________________ nominated New Yorker ___________ _______________ for the
_______ presidential ______________. ________________ _________ the election.
F. The _________ of ________ was _________ by the _____________ of the
________________ and _____________ Railroads. It _____________ in the __________
market _________ and the __________ of many __________. By ________the ___________
was in a ________ ____________.
G. President ___________ wanted to ________ the flow of _______ and make it the ________
basis for the country’s __________, so he had Congress __________ of the ______________
____________ _______________ _________. This ___________ the ________________ Party
to ________ into the ____________ and the _____________. _______________
____________ the American _____________ should be ___________ only on _________.
_____________ believed coining ___________ in _____________ amounts was the
____________ to the ____________ economic crisis.
IV. The Election of 1896 (pages 378–379)
A. The ________________ nominated _____________ Jennings __________ for the
______________ election of 1896. He strongly _______________ the _____________
___________ ___________. ______________ also ______________ __________ for president.
B. The ______________ nominated ________________ ______________ of Ohio for
_____________. He ______________ workers a “__________________.” Most
______________ leaders liked _______________ because they ______________ the
_______________ ______________ coinage would _______ the country’s ______________.
C. ____________ ________ the election of _________. New ________ strikes in ___________
and Canada’s ___________ Territory and in _____________ parts of the ____________
________________ the _____________ supply ____________ needing to use __________. As
the ___________ issue ___________ out, so did the ______________ Party.
Section 3
I. Resistance and Repression (pages 380–381)
A. After _______________, most _______________ _________________ were
__________________, or _____________ farmers who had to _________ the ___________ a
large _____________ of their ___________ to cover their __________ for _____________
and farming __________________.
B. In 1879 _______________ “Pap” ______________ organized a mass ___________ of
_________________ Americans, called ____________________, from the ________ South to
__________.
C. Some _______________ Americans that ____________ in the ____________ formed the
_______________ ________________ _______________ Alliance. The organization
____________ to _________ its members set up __________________. Many ______________
Americans ____________ the _______________ Party.
D. Threatened by the ____________ of the ________________ Party, ________________
leaders began using ________________ to try to _________ ____________ the __________
_____________ ___________ in the ______________. By ___________ election ___________
in the ___________ began using ____________ to make it ______________ for African
Americans to ___________.
II. Disfranchising African Americans (page 382)
A. _______________ states used _______________ in the ______________ ______________
and began to ______________ restrictions that __________ almost ________ African
Americans from ______________.
B. In 1890 ________________ required _______ citizens _________________ to _________ to
_________ a ________ _______, which __________ African Americans could _________
____________ to ___________. The state also ____________ ______ prospective
____________ to take a _________________ ____________. Most ____________ Americans
had ______ _________________ and _____________ the _____________. Other
__________________ states ________________ ____________ restrictions. The
______________ of African Americans and _________ _______________ registered to
________ ____________ dramatically in the ___________.
C. To _________ _________ ____________ to __________, some ________________ states
had a _____________________ _____________ in their ____________ __________________.
This _____________ ______________ ________ _________ to __________ if he had an
_________________ on the __________ rolls in _________.
III. Legalizing Segregation (pages 382–383)
A. In the late 1800s, both the ____________ and the ___________ __________________
against ____________ Americans. In the __________, _______________, or
________________ of the ______________, was ______________ by laws known as _______
__________ ___________.
B. In 1883 the ______________ Court ______________ the _________ ___________ _______
of _________. The ____________ meant that ____________ organizations or
_________________ were _________ to ________________ _______________________.
C. _________________ states ___________ a ___________ of __________ that
_____________ _________________ in almost ________ _______________ places.
D. The Supreme ____________ ruling in ____________ v. _______________ endorsed
“________________________________” facilities ________ African Americans. This ruling
__________________ the __________ basis for ____________________ in the
____________ for over _________ years.
E. In the late 1800s, mob _____________ increased in the ___________ States, particularly in
the _____________. Between _______ and ________, hundreds of _______________—
_______________ ______________ proper _____________ _________________—took place.
Most _______________ were in the _______________, and the _____________ were
___________ African Americans.
IV. The African American Response (pages 383–384)
A. In 1892 _______ B. ___________, an African American from _____________, began a
crusade _____________ _____________________. She wrote ______________ articles and a
book _________________ lynchings and _________ violence _____________ African
Americans.
B. ____________ T. _____________, an African American ______________, urged fellow
African Americans to ______________ on achieving _____________ goals rather than
__________ or _____________ ones. He explained his ___________ in a __________ known as
the _____________ ___________________.
C. The _______________ Compromise was ____________ by _________ Du _________, the
leader of ____________ American activists born ___________ the __________ War.
____________ said that ___________ ________________ continued to ________ ________
the _________ _____________ of African Americans, even though they were making
_________________ in ____________________ and ____________________
______________. He believed that _____________ Americans had to _____________ their
______________, especially ______________ rights, to ______________ ______________
_____________________.
I Can Statements and Bellringers
Chapter 11; Politics and Reform
Section 1: Stalemate in Washington
1. Explain why the Republicans and Democrats were so evenly matched during this period.
2. Cite the economic problems of the period and the basic viewpoints of each political party.
Section 2: Populism
3. Explain why farmers wanted a greenback currency and why the adoption of the gold standard led to
the Farmers’ Alliance.
4. Describe who joined the Populist Party and what the party’s goals were.
Section 3: The Rise of Segregation
5. Discuss how African Americans in the South were disfranchised and how segregation was legalized.
6. Describe three major African American leaders’ responses to discrimination.
Bellringer 1: __________________________________________________________________________
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Bellringer 2:___________________________________________________________________________
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Bellringer 3:___________________________________________________________________________
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Bellringer 4:___________________________________________________________________________
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Bellringer 5:___________________________________________________________________________
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