At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant
accepted gifts of house and money from citizen
As a result of the Civil War,
waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of the Republic
Which one of the following ideas is least related to the other three?
"Ohio idea"
One weapon that was used to put Boss Tweed, leader of New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, in jail was
the cartoons of the political satirist Thomas Nast
The Credit Mobilier scandal involved
railroad construction kickbacks
In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings. The owners of Credit Mobilizer
distributed shares of the company's valuable stock to key congressmen
Match each politician below with the Republican political faction
with which he was associated.
A. Roscoe Conkling
B. James Blaine
C. Horace
Greeley
D. Ulysses Grant
1. "Half-Breeds"
2. Stalwarts
3. Regular
Republicans
4. Liberal Republicans
A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
One cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was
the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear
As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested
inflationary policies
One result of Republican "hard money" policies was
the formation of the Greenback Labor Party
Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post- Civil War decades were usually
party loyalists
During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans
had a few significant economic differences
One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was
sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties
During the gilded age, the lifeblood of both the democratic and the Republican parties was
political patronage
The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two non-consecutive terms) was
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland
In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
"separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.
At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans with
all of the above
The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes opened with
scenes of class warfare.
Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from
the collapse of the steel industry.
Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in
the use of federal troops during strikes
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America
One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to
dig for gold
The Chinese word tong means
meeting hall
The pendleton Act required appointees to public office to
take a competitive examination
On the issue of the tariff, President Grover Cleveland
advocated a lower rate
The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was
tariff policy
In the later decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true that the focus of political power was
congress
The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in
a racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South
The Political developments of the 1890s were largely shaped by
the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time
in the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
owned his victory to the votes of former slaves
In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by, "waving the bloody shirt," were reminding voters
of the "treason" of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War
President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because
his opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency
The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s
aroused great interest among voters
"Spoilsmen" was the label attached to those who
expected government jobs from their party's elected officeholders
The Major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
called Jim Crow Laws
The Railroad strike of 1877 started when
the four largest railroads cut salaries by ten percent
Which of the following internal developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States?
All of the above
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the second was
James Garfield
President James A. Garfield was assassinated
by a deranged, disappointed office seeker
With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now sought money from
big corporations
The 1884 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for
its personal attacks on the two candidates
Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a different party affiliation from the other four?
Grover Cleveland
When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support of
businesspeople
The "Billion Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by
expanding pensions for Civil War veterans
Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist Party in their convention of 1892?
government guarantees of "parity prices" for farmers
The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were
Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada
Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader
William Jennings Bryan
President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of
borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate
The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 were
the republicans