APUSH CH 23

e

With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now sought money from a. new immigrants. b. civil-service workers. c. the small army of factory workers whom they now had to mobilize. d. foreign contributors. e. big corporations.

e

As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested a. a policy of deflation. b. a passage of the Resumption Act of 1875. c. stronger federal control of banking. d. restoring the government's credit rating. e. inflationary policies.

d

At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant a. refused gifts offered him by the American public. b. proved that he was a sound judge of human character. c. rejoined the Democratic party. d. accepted gifts of houses and money from citizens. e. ruled out running for office.

e

At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African-Americans with a. literacy requirements. b. poll taxes. c. economic intimidation. d. grandfather clauses. e. all of the above.

e

During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was a. the Grand Army of the Republic. b. the Roman Catholic Church. c. ideological commitment. d. big-city political machines. e. political patronage.

e

In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of Crédit Mobilizer a. left the country. b. belatedly started to follow honest business practices. c. sold controlling interest in the company to others. d. tried to gain immunity by testifying before Congress. e. distributed shares of the company's valuable stock to key congressmen.

c

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.

a

In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters a. of the "treason" of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War. b. that the Civil War had been caused by the election of a Republican president. c. of the graft-filled "radical" regimes in the Reconstruction South. d. that radical Republicans catered to freed slaves during Reconstruction. e. of Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks.

b

In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant a. transformed his personal popularity into a large majority in the popular vote. b. owed his victory to the votes of former slaves. c. gained his victory by winning the votes of the majority of whites. d. demonstrated his political skill. e. all of the above.

e

In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress a. negotiated a restricted-immigration agreement with China. b. did nothing, as it was California's problem. c. banned the Kearneyites in San Francisco. d. sent many Chinese back to their homeland. e. passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.

c

Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in a. Congress's passing legislation supporting the formation of unions. b. a ban on Irish immigration. c. the use of State and federal troops during strikes. d. congressional acts to ban strikes. e. growing middle class support for labor.

d

Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated. A. Roscoe Conkling 1. "Half-Breeds" B. James Blaine 2. Stalwarts C. Horace Greeley 3. Regular Republicans D. Ulysses Grant 4. Liberal Republicans a. A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1 b. A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4 c. A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 d. A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3 e. A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2

b

On the issue of the tariff, President Grover Cleveland a. supported high rates. b. advocated a lower rate. c. had no opinion. d. followed the advice of his party. e. favored tariffs on agricultural products.

b

One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to a. work on the East Coast. b. dig for gold. c. replace the newly freed slaves in the South. d. buy their own farms. e. all of these.

b

One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was a. the parties' differences over economic issues. b. sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties. c. battles between Catholics and Lutherans. d. differences over the issue of the civil service. e. sectional tensions between the Northeast and Midwest.

e

One result of Republican "hard money" policies was a. a strong dollar against foreign currencies. b. damage to the country's credit rating. c. the return to the "Dollar of Our Daddies," silver dollars, as the dominant coin in circulation. d. the defeat of a Democratic House of Representatives in 1874. e. the formation of the Greenback Labor party.

a

One weapon that was used to put Boss Tweed, leader of New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, in jail was a. the cartoons of the political satirist Thomas Nast. b. federal income tax evasion charges. c. the RICO racketeering act. d. New York City's ethics laws. e. granting immunity to Tweed's cronies in exchange for testimony.

d

President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of a. vetoing the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act. b. using federal troops to suppress Populist demonstrations. c. taking the United States off the gold standard. d. borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate. e. wasting the federal surplus on pork-barrel spending.

d

President James A. Garfield was assassinated a. as a result of his service in the Civil War. b. because he was a Stalwart Republican. c. because he opposed civil-service reform. d. by a deranged, disappointed office seeker. e. by a political anarchist.

c

The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by a. providing subsidies to wheat, corn, and cotton farmers. b. building an expensive new steel navy. c. expanding pensions for Civil War veterans. d. cutting tariffs and other taxes. e. increasing spending on railroads and other transportation projects.

c

The 1884 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for a. its emphasis on issues. b. low voter turnout. c. its personal attacks on the two candidates. d. a landslide victory for the reform-minded Republicans. e. its virtual tie in the electoral college.

b

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 from the South. c. the election of a Democrat to the presidency. d. passage of the Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act. e. a plan to build the first transcontinental railroad.

a

The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office 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. pledge independence from either major political party. e. have a college degree.

b

The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on a. who would be Speaker of the House. b. the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana. c. Samuel Tilden's association with corrupt politicians. d. President Grant's campaign for a third term. e. failure to use the secret "Australian ballot" in some places

d

The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) was a. Cleveland, Hayes, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, Garfield. b. Garfield, Hayes, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, Cleveland. c. Cleveland, Garfield, Arthur, Hayes, Harrison, Cleveland. d. Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland. e. Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, Cleveland.