front 1 What best describes the primary base of the Democratic Party? | back 1 It included wealthy easterners, poorer midwesterners, and debt-burdened agrarians. |
front 2 What brought a halt to Boss Tweed's widespread corruption? | back 2 The journalistic exposes of The New York Times and cartoonist Thomas Nast |
front 3 Why was the Democrats' nomination of Horace Greeley as their presidential candidate in 1872 politically disastrous? | back 3 Greeley had spent many years denouncing Democrats as morally deficient slave traders and traitors. |
front 4 The depression that began with the panic of 1873 created the first major clamor for which of the following? | back 4 Inflationary policies to be promoted by issuing greenbacks and other forms of soft money |
front 5 Which best describes the relationship between the Democrats and the Republicans during the Gilded Age? | back 5 They had few significant policy differences. |
front 6 What was one reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor between the Democrats and the Republicans of the Gilded Age? | back 6 Sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties |
front 7 The Compromise of 1877 resulted in all of the following except: | back 7 More rights for blacks in the South |
front 8 What was the significance of the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson? | back 8 Segregation laws were upheld as constitutional. |
front 9 Which was a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? | back 9 Chinese immigration was prohibited in the United States until 1943. |
front 10 The assassination of President James Garfield by a disappointed office seeker did which of the following? | back 10 Created the impetus to establish the first civil service system for federal employees |
front 11 All of the following were true of the Election of 1884 except: | back 11 Cleveland chose to "lie like a gentleman" about his illegitimate son. |
front 12 Blaine lost the election of 1884 for all of the following reasons except: | back 12 Cleveland had been involved in an amorous affair with a Buffalo widow, who had an illegitimate son, for whom Cleveland had made financial provision. |