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