In the election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
a. demonstrated his political skills.
b. gained his victory by winning the votes of a majority of whites.
c. all of these
d. owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.
e. transformed his popularity into a large majority in the popular vote.
d
New York's notoriously corrupt Boss Tweed was finally jailed under the pressure of
a. New York City's ethics laws
b. testimony by Tweed's partners in crime.
c. New York Times articles and the cartoons of Thomas Nast.
d. the RICO racketeering act.
e. federal income tax evasion charges.
c
A major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was
a. Wall Street's fears about the power of the radical Greenback Labor party.
b. a credit crunch caused by extremely high interest rates.
c. the expansion of more factories, railroads and mines than existing markets would bear.
d. excessive speculation in mining stocks
e. the issuance of millions of dollars in greenbacks.
c
The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
a. President Grant's campaign for a third term.
b. who would be Speaker of the House.
c. failure to use the secret Australian ballot in some places. Correct!
d. the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana.
e. Samuel Tilden's association with corrupt politicians.
d
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
a. Republican support for an inflationary silver-money policy.
b. a plan to build the first transcontinental railroad.
c. the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the south.
d. a renewal of the Republican commitment to protect black civil rights in the south.
e. the election of a Democrat to the presidency
c
In the 1896 case of Plessy v Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
a. "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.
b. segregation was unconstitutional.
c. the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to African Americans.
d. African Americans could be denied the right to vote.
e. literacy tests for voting were constitutional.
a
At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using
a. poll taxes
b. economic intimidation
c. lynching
d. literacy tests
e. all of these
e
Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were
a. done to scare black into moving out of the South.
b. retaliation for violent crimes against whites.
c. designed to intimidate African Americans to accept second-class status.
d. all of these
e. a way to force blacks back into slave-like labor.
c
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
a. sent many Chinese back to their homeland.
b. banned the Kearneyites in San Francisco.
c. negotiated a restricted-immigration agreement with China.
d. did nothing, as it was California's problem.
e. passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.
e
Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he
a. did not believe in the principles of the Republican party.
b. was unable to get other to follow his lead.
c. lacked political ambition.
d. had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.
e. was personally dishonest and corrupt.
d
The Credit Mobilier scandal involved
a. evasion of excise taxes on distilled liquor.
b. manipulating the Wall Street stock market.
c. railroad construction kickbacks.
d. Bureau of Indian Affairs payoffs.
e. public utility company bribes.
c
In the aftermath of the Civil War
a. waste, speculation, and corruption afflicted both business and government.
b. the population of the United States declined.
c. the North developed a strong sense of moral superiority
d. concern for racial questions took precedence over economics.
e. Americans retained a strong sense of idealistic sacrifice.
a
Despite the lack of national political issues, Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issues like
a. prohibition and education
b. the phrase "In God We Trust" on American currency.
c. sexual morality and women's rights.
d. race relations and racial justice in the South.
e. imperialism and foreign missions.
a
The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" in the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) was
a. Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and Cleveland.
b. Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, and Cleveland.
c. Garfield, Hayes, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, and Cleveland.
d. Cleveland, Garfield, Arthur, Hayes, Harrison, and Cleveland.
e. Cleveland, Hayes, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, and Garfield.
a
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after Reconstruction
a. Some merchants manipulated the system so that farmers remained perpetually in debt to them.
b. Black sharecroppers often lived in conditions scarcely better than when they were slaves.
c. As sharecroppers, blacks found themselves at the mercy of former masters who were now their landlords and creditors.
d. White southerners did not work as sharecroppers.
e. Sharecroppers barely scraped by economically.
d