chapter 22-26 test study guide
benjamin harrisons victory over grover cleveland in the election of 1888 was unusual in that
harrison lost the popular vote to cleveland but won in the electoral college
President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction aimed to
punish confederate leaders
the credit mobilier scandal involved
railroad corporation fraud and the subsequent bribery of congressmen
the official charge that the house of representatives used to impeach president johnson
was his dismissal of secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act
Many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments because they
gave equal rights to african american males but not to women
the incident that caused the clash between congress and president johnson to explode into the open in february 1866 was
Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the freedmens bureau
America's first billion-dollar corporation was
US Steel
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress passed
a law prohibiting the immigration of chinese laborers to america
Know the fields of enterprise in which the following are historically known: Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan
andrew carnegie: steel john d rockefeller: oil jp morgan: banking
the presidential election of the 1870s and 1880s were characterized by
aroused great interest among voters
What were the common forms of corruption practiced by the wealthy railroad barons?
bribing judges and state legislatures, providing free railroad passes to journalists and politicians, watering down railroad stocks and bonds in order to sell them at inflated prices, receiving kickbacks from powerful shippers
Feminist leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony campaigned against Fourteenth Amendment
despite having worked wholeheartedly for the cause of emancipation, because a citizens right to vote was defined constitutionally as being limited to male citizens, despite being urged by their formally, frederick douglas, to support the 14th amendment
Public executions and lynching of black men in the Jim Crow South were designed to
intimidate african americans to accept second class status
the example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated the typical
lack of ethics of the gilded age, which also pervaded government in the form of bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections
Agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits were called
pools
what were the various ways southern blacks responded to the prospect of emancipation
some were loyal to the plantation master and resisted liberating union armies, some slaves insisted whites address them as Mr. or Mrs., some slaves beat former masters with same whips formerly used on them, some were suspicious weather masters were really freeing them
In seeking congressional approval to enact lower tariffs in 1887, President Grover Cleveland
sought to reduce an embarrassing federal treasury surplus of over 100 million, probably cost himself reelction in 1888 because the tariff issue mobilized the republicans quite effectively, incurred the political wrath of nervous industrialists who provided heavy financial support to the republicans and their legally dubious vote buying operations during the 1888 presidential election
the pendleton act required people applying for many federal government jobs to
take a competitve examination
Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when
the last federal troops were removed in 1877
An epidemic of violent strikes and labor conflict in 1892 led to the prospect of
the populist adding industrial workers to their base of support among farmers
the major electoral problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
the two sets of election returns submitted by florida, south carolina, and louisiana
in the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses s grant owed his victory to
the votes of former slaves
During Reconstruction, African American women assumed new political roles which included all of the following except
voting
which of the following is NOT a true statement about the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after reconstruction
white southerners did not work as sharecroppers