Chapter 23

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Jim Fisk is least related to;

"Black Friday", Jay Gould, "Ohio Idea" and Wall Street gold market

Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist Party in their convention of 1892?

Government guarantees of "parity prices" for farmers

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.

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the second was

James Garfield.

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.

On the issue of the tariff,

President Grover Cleveland advocated a lower rate.

Roscoe Conkling James Blaine Horace Greeley Ulysses Grant

Stalwarts "Half-Breeds" Liberal Republicans Regular Republicans

At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant

accepted gifts of houses and money from citizens.

The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s

aroused great interest among voters.

The major problem in the 1876 presidential election

centered on the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.

The railroad of 1877 started when the four largest railroads

cut salaries by ten percent.

As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873,

debtors suggested inflationary policies.

President James A. Garfield was assassinated by a deranged,

disappointed office seeker.

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.

Cleveland effectively addressed the depression of the 1890s by compromising with pro-silver money advocates.

false; Cleveland remained attached to to the gold standard and failed to address the depression

Ulysses Grant's status as a military hero enabled him to become a successful president who stood above partisan politics.

false; Grant's lack of political experience hurt, and he did engage in Republican party politics

The disputed Hayes-Tilden election was settled by a political deal in which Democrats got the presidency and Republicans got economic an political concessions.

false; the Republicans got the presidency and the Democrats other political and economic concessions

The Cleveland-Blaine campaign of 1884 was conducted primarily as a debate about the issues of taxes and the tariff.

false; the campaign was based on personal mudslinging rather than issues

The close, fiercely contested elections of the Gilded Age reflected the deep divisions between Republicans and Democrats over national issues.

false; the parties agreed on national issues; their disagreements were at the local level

The Liberal Republican movement's political skill enabled it to clean up the corruption of the Grant administration.

false; the political mistakes of the Liberal Republicans caused them to fail

When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government

gained the support of businesspeople.

Grover Cleveland

had a different political affiliation than other Gilded Age presidents.

During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans

had few significant economic differences.

President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by

his action of borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate.

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 1884 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for

its personal attacks on the two candidates.

At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African-Americans with

literacy requirements, poll taxes, economic intimidation and grandfather clauses.

The Chinese word tong means

meeting hall

The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes

opened with scenes of class warfare.

In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.

With the passage of the Pendleton Act,

politicians now sought money from big corporations.

The "Billion-Dollar Congress"

quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by expanding pensions for Civil War veterans.

The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was

tariff policy

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 greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 was

the Republicans.

In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson,

the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.

In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California,

the United States Congress passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.

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.

Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from

the collapse of the steel industry.

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.

One result of Republican "hard money" policies was

the formation of the Greenback Labor party.

During the Gilded Age,

the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was political patronage.

In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true that

the locus of political power was Congress.

The political developments of the l890s were largely shaped by

the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time.

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 congressmen

Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to

the rise of the pro-silver leader William Jennings Bryan.

Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in

the use of federal troops during strikes.

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.

The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office

to take a competitive examination.

By reducing politicians' use of patronage, the new civil-service system inadvertently made them more dependent on big campaign contributors.

true

The Compromise of 1877 purchased political peace between North and South by sacrificing southern blacks and removing federal troops in the South.

true

The Populist party's attempt to form a coalition of farmers and workers failed partly because of the racial division between poor whites and blacks in the South.

true

The Republican party in the post-Civil War era relied heavily on the political support of veterans' groups, to which it gave substantial pension benefits in return.

true

The battles between the "Stalwart" and "Half-Breed" Republican factions were mainly over who would get patronage and spoils.

true

The scandals of the Grand administration included bribes and corrupt dealings reaching to the cabinet and the vice president of the United States.

true

The severe economic downturn of the 1870s caused business failures, labor conflict, and battles over currency.

true

The sharecropping and tenant farming systems forced many Southern blacks into permanent economic debt and dependency.

true

Western hostility to Chinese immigrants arose in part because the Chinese provided a source of cheap labor that competed with white workers.

true

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.

One cause of the panic that broke in 1873

was the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear.

One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States

was to dig for gold.

As a result of the Civil War,

waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of the Republic.

Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades

were usually party loyalists.

"Spoilsmen" was the label attached to those

who expected government jobs from their party's elected officeholders.


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