His 202 Ch 23 quiz
Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he
had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.
The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in
the white South and big-city immigrant machines.
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
Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise in the 1890s of the pro-silver political leader
William Jennings Bryan.
In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
"separate but equal" public schools and facilities were constitutional under the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were
Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada.
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after Reconstruction?
White southerners did not work as sharecroppers.
President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his
borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate.
In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of the Crédit Mobilizer
bribed key congressmen by giving them shares of the company's valuable stock.
The main reason(s) that the Chinese came to the United States from the 1850s until 1882 was/were to
dig for gold and sledgehammer the tracks for the transcontinental railroad in the West.
All of the following are true statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1875 except
it was supposed to guarantee equal rights in voting and access to education for blacks and whites.
In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.
At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using
poll taxes. literacy requirements. lynching onerous and intimidating voter registration laws.
The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to
take a competitive examination.
The national railroad strike of 1877 started when
the four largest railroads cut salaries by 10 percent.T
The major electoral problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
the two sets of different election returns, one Democratic, and one Republican, submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
In seeking congressional approval to enact lower tariffs in 1887, President Grover Cleveland
~probably cost himself reelection 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. ~sought to reduce an embarrassing federal Treasury surplus of over $100 million. ~divided and demoralized his own Democratic party, which was forced to fight the upcoming election over the controversial tariff issue.