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