What best describes the primary base of the Democratic Party?
It included wealthy easterners, poorer midwesterners, and debt-burdened agrarians.
What brought a halt to Boss Tweed's widespread corruption?
The journalistic exposes of The New York Times and cartoonist Thomas Nast
Why was the Democrats' nomination of Horace Greeley as their presidential candidate in 1872 politically disastrous?
Greeley had spent many years denouncing Democrats as morally deficient slave traders and traitors.
The depression that began with the panic of 1873 created the first major clamor for which of the following?
Inflationary policies to be promoted by issuing greenbacks and other forms of soft money
Which best describes the relationship between the Democrats and the Republicans during the Gilded Age?
They had few significant policy differences.
What was one reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor between the Democrats and the Republicans of the Gilded Age?
Sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in all of the following except:
More rights for blacks in the South
What was the significance of the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
Segregation laws were upheld as constitutional.
Which was a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Chinese immigration was prohibited in the United States until 1943.
The assassination of President James Garfield by a disappointed office seeker did which of the following?
Created the impetus to establish the first civil service system for federal employees
All of the following were true of the Election of 1884 except:
Cleveland chose to "lie like a gentleman" about his illegitimate son.
Blaine lost the election of 1884 for all of the following reasons except:
Cleveland had been involved in an amorous affair with a Buffalo widow, who had an illegitimate son, for whom Cleveland had made financial provision.