front 1 At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant... | back 1 accepted gifts of houses and money from citizens. |
front 2 In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant | back 2 owed his victory to the votes of former slaves. |
front 3 As a result of the Civil War, .... | back 3 waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of the Republic. |
front 4 In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters... | back 4 of the "treason" of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War. |
front 5 Which one of the following is least related to the other three? | back 5 "Ohio Idea" |
front 6 6. One weapon that was used to put Boss Tweed, leader of New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, in jail was... | back 6 the cartoons of the political satirist Thomas Nast. |
front 7 7. The Credit Mobilier scandal involved... | back 7 railroad construction kickbacks. |
front 8 8. In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of Credit Mobilizer... | back 8 distributed shares of the company's valuable stock to key congressmen. |
front 9 9. President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because... | back 9 his opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency. |
front 10 10. Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated. | back 10 A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3 |
front 11 11. One cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was... | back 11 the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear. |
front 12 12. As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested... | back 12 inflationary policies |
front 13 13. One result of Republican "hard money" policies was... | back 13 the formation of the Greenback Labor party. |
front 14 14. Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usually... | back 14 party loyalists. |
front 15 15. During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans... | back 15 had few significant economic differences. |
front 16 16. The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s... | back 16 aroused great interest among voters. |
front 17 17. One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was... | back 17 sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties. |
front 18 18. During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was... | back 18 political patronage. |
front 19 19. "Spoilsmen" was the label attached to those who... | back 19 expected government jobs from their party's elected officeholders. |
front 20 20. The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on... | back 20 the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana. |
front 21 21. The Compromise of 1877 resulted in... | back 21 the withdrawal of federal troops from the South. |
front 22 22. The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two non-consecutive terms) was... | back 22 Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland |
front 23 23. In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that... | back 23 "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional. |
front 24 24. At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans with... literacy requirements., poll taxes., economic intimidation, grandfather clauses. | back 24 all of the above |
front 25 25. The legal codes that established the system of segregation were... | back 25 called Jim Crow laws. |
front 26 26. The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes opened with... | back 26 scenes of class warfare. |
front 27 27. The railroad strike of 1877 started when... | back 27 the four largest railroads cut salaries by ten percent. |
front 28 28. Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from... | back 28 the collapse of the steel industry. |
front 29 29. Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in... | back 29 the use of federal troops during strikes. |
front 30 30. In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress... | back 30 passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America. |
front 31 31. Which of the following internal developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States? the disintegration of the Chinese Empire, the seizure of farmland by landlords, the intrusion of European powers, internal political turmoil | back 31 all of the above |
front 32 32. One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to... | back 32 dig for gold. |
front 33 33. The Chinese word tong means... | back 33 meeting hall. |
front 34 34. Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the second was... | back 34 James Garfield |
front 35 35. President James A. Garfield was assassinated... | back 35 by a deranged, disappointed office seeker. |
front 36 36. The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to... | back 36 take a competitive examination. |
front 37 37. With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now sought money from... | back 37 big corporations. |
front 38 38. The 1884 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for... | back 38 its personal attacks on the two candidates. |
front 39 39. Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a different party affiliation from the other four? | back 39 Grover Cleveland |
front 40 40. When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support of... | back 40 businesspeople. |
front 41 41. On the issue of the tariff, President Grover Cleveland... | back 41 advocated a lower rate. |
front 42 42. The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was... | back 42 tariff policy. |
front 43 43. In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true that the locus of political power was... | back 43 Congress. |
front 44 44. The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by... | back 44 expanding pensions for Civil War veterans. |
front 45 Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist Party in their convention of 1892? | back 45 government guarantees of "parity prices" for farmers |
front 46 The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were... | back 46 Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada. |
front 47 The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in... | back 47 a racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South. |
front 48 The political developments of the 1890s were largely shaped by... | back 48 the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time. |
front 49 Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader... | back 49 William Jennings Bryan. |
front 50 President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of... | back 50 borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate. |
front 51 The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 were... | back 51 the Republicans |
front 52 The tariff bill, sponsored by the talented congressman William McKinley of ohio provided for | back 52 sky-high tariff rates that stirred rural discontent |
front 53 The "Ohio Idea" | back 53 proposed inflation by circulating more greenbacks |
front 54 All of the following are true statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1875 except | back 54 it was supposed to guarantee equal rights in voting and access to education for blacks and whites |
front 55 Which of the following was no among the groups that formed the solid political base of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century | back 55 Northern Big cities |