Chapter 23 CatchPhrases
“Waving the Bloody Shirt”
Tweed Ring
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Panic of 1873
Gilded Age
Patronage
Compromise of 1877
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Sharecropping
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Act
Homestead Strike
Grandfather Clause
Questions for Reading:
1) What were the short- and long-term results of the “Jim Crow” system in the South? Why was
the sharecropping system so hard to overcome? Were blacks worse off or better off after the
Civil War?
2) Why did Americans react in opposition and violence against the Chinese? What was the
justification for the Chinese Exclusion Act?
3) Why was this period dubbed the Guilded Age? What events and issues give this title validity?