Ch. 23 APUSH
President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because
his opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency
The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved
railroad construction kickbacks
The following were internal developments in China that led to Chinese immigration into the United States:
the disintegration of the Chinese Empire, the seizure of farmland by landlords, the intrusion of European powers, and internal political turmoil
Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader
William Jennings Bryan
During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans
had few significant economic differences
Jim Fisk is least related to
"Black Friday", Jay Gould, "Ohio Idea" and Wall Street gold market
In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
"separate but equal" facilities were constitutional
The railroad of 1877 started when the four largest railroads
cut salaries by ten percent
Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated
A: Roscoe Conking- Stalwarts; B. James Blaine- "Half-Breeds"; C. Horace Greeley - Liberal Republicans; D. Ulysses Grant- Regular Republicans
The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on the two sets of election returns submitted by
Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana
Grover Cleveland had a different political affiliation than other
Gilded Age presidents
The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age(including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) was
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland
The legal codes that established the system of segregation were called
Jim Crow laws
The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were
Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada
The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 was the
Republicans
One weapon that was used to put Boss Tweed, leader of New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, in jail was the cartoons of the political satirist
Thomas Nast
At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant
accepted gifts of houses and money from citizens
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to
be assassinated while in office
James Garfield was the second president to
be assassinated while in office
With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now sought money from
big corporations
President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of
borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate
When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support of
businesspeople
President James A. Garfield was assassinated by a
deranged, disappointed office seeker
One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to
dig for gold
In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters of the "treason" of the Confederate Democrats
during the Civil War
The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in a racist backlash that
eliminated black voting in the South
The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by
expanding pensions for Civil War veterans
"Spoilsmen" was the label attached to those who
expected government jobs from their party's elected officeholders
Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in the use of
federal troops during strikes
In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant owed his victory to the votes of
former slaves
As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested
inflationary policies
In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of Crédit Mobilizer distributed shares of the company's valuable stock to
key congressman
At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans with
literacy requirements, poll taxes, economic intimidation, and grandfather clauses
On the issue of the tariff, President Grover Cleveland advocated a
lower rate
The Chinese word tong means
meeting hall
The political developments of the 1890s were largely shaped by the
most severe and extended economic depression up to that time
Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usually
party loyalists
The 1884 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for its
personal attacks on the two candidates
During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was
political patronage
The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes opened with
scenes of class warfare
One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was
sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties
Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from the collapse of of the
steel industry
The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to
take a competitive examination
The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was
tariff policy
One result of Republican "hard money" policies was the formation of
the Greenback Labor party
As a result of the Civil War, waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of
the Republic
One cause of the panic that broke in 1872 was
the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress passed a law prohibiting
the immigration of Chinese laborers to America
In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true that
the locus of political power was Congress
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s aroused great interest among
voters