chapter 17

In addition to the Union Pacific, all of the following railroads were built EXCEPT the:

Burlingame and Sacramento

The Central Pacific employed laborers, primarily from what country?

China

The worst scandal of the Grant Administration involved the creation of a dummy construction company to divert funds intended for the construction of the Union Pacific into the hands of large investors. What was the name of that company?

Crédit Mobilier

Scandals plaguing the Grant administration in the 1870s and weakening Republican credibility included the:

Crédit Mobilier, the Whisky Ring, and the Canal Ring

The New York Tribune editor and 1872 Liberal Republican/Democratic candidate for president who coined the phrase "Root, Hog, or Die" as advice to the freedmen was:

Horace Greeley

The Union Pacific employed primarily African-Americans and what other group of Americans, who worked in gangs?

Irish

Prominent railroad executives in the Gilded Age included all of the following EXCEPT:

John D. Rockefeller

The 1862 measure that gave huge grants of land to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific to build a transcontinental railroad was the:

Pacific Railway Act

On May 10, 1869, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were joined by a golden spoke at what location in Utah?

Promontory Point

The political cartoonist whose work appeared in Harper's Weekly and who attacked the dishonesty and corruption of the Tweed Ring was:

Thomas Nast

In the 1876 election:

an Electoral Commission settled the dispute over contested electoral votes

Pools were formed by railroad corporations to:

assure continued access to capital

The Panic and Depression of 1873 was the result of:

commercial overexpansion, especially in speculative investing in railroads

The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were funded primarily by:

federal government land grants and subsidies

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

prohibited Chinese immigrants to the U.S. for ten years

The map of the election of 1876 shows that the:

returns of four states were contested

To help the Central Pacific acquire laborers, in 1868 the U.S. Senate ratifies what measure, which gave Chinese the right to emigrate to the U.S?

the Burlingame Treaty