Chapter 23 Gilded Age Multiple choice
As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873, debtors strongly advocated...
inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency
President Cleveland's response to the depression of the 1890's demonstrated that he...
was unable to deal effectively with such a massive economic crisis
The presidential elections of the 1870's and 1880's...
aroused enormous turnouts among voters even though there were few significant issues
The platform plank not adopted by the Populist party at their convention of 1892 was...
government guarantees of parity prices for farmers
Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he...
had no political experience and was a poor judge of character
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 14th Amendment
The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age was....
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and Cleveland
Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise in the 1890's of the pro-silver political leader...
William Jennings Bryan
The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of poor white and poor black farmers resulted in...
a racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South through widespread use of literacy tests and poll taxes to deny blacks the ballot
The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated...
a typical lack of ethics of the Gilded Age, which also pervaded government in the form of bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections
President Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his...
borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P Morgan's banking syndicate
At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using...
literacy requirements, poll taxes, onerous and intimidating voter registration laws, and lynching (All choices are correct)
Black Americans were hard hit by the gloom times of the depression years of the mid 1870's because...
many had put their savings in the Freedmen's Savings and Trust, only to see it vanish due to bad investments by the savings bank
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the US Congress...
passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America
During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both Democratic and the Republican parties was/were....
political patronage
The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to...
take a competitive examination
President Grant was reelected in 1872 because...
the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the politically and personally eccentric and dubiously sound editor Horace Greeley as their candidate
The national railroad strike of 1877 started when...
the four largest railroad cut salaries by 10%
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 Compromise of 1877 resulted in...
the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of federal protection of black civil and voting rights in the South
