Chapter 23

Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a political leader because

had no political experience and was a poor judge of character

In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the blood shirt" were reminding voters

of the gory memories of the Civil War and the Republican party's role in the Union's victory.

The Credit Mobilizer scandal involved

railroad construction kickbacks.

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.

Which of the following internal developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States?

All of these choices are correct

At the end of reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using.

All of these choices are correct.

Which of the following was not among the regional groups that formed the solid political base of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century?

Immigrants living in the large Northeastern cities

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 slavecropping in the years after Reconstruction?

White southerners did not work as sharecroppers.

In seeking congressional approval to enact lower tariffs in 1887, President Grover Cleveland

all of these choices are correct.

With the Pendleton Act prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from

big corporations

President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his

borrowing 65 million in gold from J.P. Morgans banking syndicate

In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of the Credit Mobilizer

bribed key congressmen by giving them shares of the company's valuable stock.

The legal codes that established the system of segregation were

found only in the North

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.

During the mid to late nineteenth century, Chinese woman

settled mostly on the East Coast.

The national railroad strike of 1877 started when

the four largest railroads cut salaries by 10 percent

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.

The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in

the white south and big-city immigrant machines