Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he
a.
was personally dishonest and corrupt.
b.
did not believe in the principles of the Republican party.
c.
was unable to get others to follow his lead.
d.
had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.
e.
lacked political ambition
d
The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to
a. take a competitive examination.
b. present a written
recommendation from a congressman or senator.
c. agree to make
financial contributions to their political party.
d. submit a
resume listing their experience and providing references.
e. have
a college degree.
a
In religious and cultural terms, the Republicans appealed especially to groups that derived their views from the
a. less orthodox traditions of Unitarianism and Quakerism.
b.
Catholic and Lutheran traditions of creed, liturgy, and understanding
of human weakness.
c. Baptist tradition that feared government
intrusion on personal and religious freedom.
d. scientific
tradition that saw religion as a fading force in American
society.
e. Puritan tradition of strict moral codes and
government regulation of morality and society.
e
One result of Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s was
a. the rise of the American dollar against foreign
currencies.
b. damage to the country's credit rating.
c. the
return to the silver "Dollar of Our Daddies" as the dominant
form of U.S. money.
d. the defeat of a Democratic House of
Representatives in 1874.
e. a political turn to the Democrats and
new Greenback Labor party.
e
In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
a. African Americans could be denied the right to vote.
b.
segregation was unconstitutional.
c. "separate but
equal" facilities were constitutional.
d. the Fourteenth
Amendment did not apply to African Americans.
e. literacy tests
for voting were constitutional.
c
The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved
a. public utility company bribes.
b. Bureau of Indian Affairs
payoffs.
c. railroad construction kickbacks.
d. evasion of
excise taxes on distilled liquor.
e. manipulating the Wall Street
stock market.
c
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
a. a renewal of the Republican commitment to protect black civil
rights in the South.
b. the withdrawal of federal troops and
abandonment of black rights in the South.
c. the election of a
Democrat to the presidency.
d. Republican support for an
inflationary silver-money policy.
e. a plan to build the first
transcontinental railroad.
b
The national railroad strike of 1877 started when
a. President Hayes refused to use troops to keep the trains
running.
b. the four largest railroads cut salaries by 10
percent.
c. working hours were cut back by the railroad
companies.
d. the railroad workers refused to cross the picket
lines of cargo loaders.
e. the railroads tried to hire Chinese workers.
b
Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a different party affiliation from the other four?
a. Ulysses S. Grant
b. Rutherford Hayes
c. Grover
Cleveland
d. Benjamin Harrison
e. Chester Arthur
c