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the expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets would bear.
A major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was
had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.
Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he
were very few in number, and most became prostitutes.
During the mid to late nineteenth century, Chinese women
William Jennings Bryan
Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise in the 1890s of the pro-silver political leader
"separate but equal" public schools and facilities were constitutional under the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.
In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
all of the above
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 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. -divided and demoralized his own Democratic party, which was forced to fight the upcoming election over the controversial tariff issue.
borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate.
President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his
the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the politically and personally eccentric and dubiously sound editor Horace Greeley as their candidate
President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because
robbed Congress of its constitutional war-declaring powers by entangling America in an international organization capable of authorizing collective force against an aggressor nation.
Senate opponents of the League of Nations, as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles, argued that it
the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of federal protection of black civil and voting rights in the South
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
railroad construction kickbacks.
The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved
Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada.
The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were
called Jim Crowe Laws
The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
dig for gold and sledgehammer the tracks for the transcontinental railroad in the West.
The main reason(s) that the Chinese came to the United States from the 1850s until 1882 was/were to
the two sets of different election returns, one Democratic, and one Republican, submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
The major electoral problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
the white South and big-city immigrant machines
The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in
all of the above
Which of the following internal developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States? -The seizure of farmland by landlords -The disintegration of the Chinese Empire -Internal political turmoil -The intrusion of European powers
Government guarantees of parity prices for farmers
Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist party in their convention of 1892?
The national railroad strike of 1877 started when
the four largest railroads cut salaries by 10 percent.