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