APUSH Chapter 23
Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he
had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.
As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873, debtors strongly advocated
inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency.
In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters
of the gory memories of the Civil War and the Republican party's role in the Union's victory.
The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved
railroad construction kickbacks.
A major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was
the expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets would bear.
The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in
the white South and big-city immigrant machines.
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
President Cleveland's response to the depression of the 1890s demonstrated that he
was unable to deal effectively with such a massive economic crisis.
Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise in the 1890s of the pro-silver political leader
William Jennings Bryan.
The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s
aroused enormous turnouts among voters even though there were few significant issues.
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 Fourteenth Amendment.
Which of the following internal developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States?
All of these choices are correct. - The disintegration of the Chinese Empire - The seizure of farmland by landlords - The intrusion of European powers - Internal political turmoil
In seeking congressional approval to enact lower tariffs in 1887, President Grover Cleveland
All of these choices are correct. - sought to reduce an embarrassing federal Treasury surplus of over $100 million. - 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. - probably cost himself reelection in 1888 because the tariff issue mobilized the Republicans quite effectively.
At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using
All of these choices are correct: - literacy requirements. - poll taxes. - onerous and intimidating voter registration laws. - lynching
Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a Democratic party affiliation , differing from the other four presidents?
Grover Cleveland
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, and Cleveland.
Which of the following was not among the regional groups that formed the solid political base of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century?
Immigrants living in the large Northeastern cities.
The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were
Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada.
In religious and cultural terms, the Republicans appealed especially to groups that derived their views from
Puritan tradition of strict moral codes and government regulation of morality and society.
Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated.
Roscoe Conkling - Stalwarts James Blaine - "Half-Breeds" Horace Greeley - Liberal Republicans Ulysses Grant - Regular Republicans (A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3)
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after Reconstruction?
White southerners did not work as sharecroppers.
One result of Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s was
a political turn to the Democrats and the rise of the new Greenback Labor party.
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 the widespread use of literacy tests and poll taxes to deny blacks the ballot.
The conservative white Bourbon Democrats of the South largely succeeded in crushing the Populist revolt by
appealing to poor white farmers' antiblack racial feelings against their economic interests.
With the Pendleton Act prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from
big corporations.
President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his
borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate.
In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of the Crédit Mobilizer
bribed key congressmen by giving them shares of the company's valuable stock.
President James A. Garfield was assassinated
by a deranged, disappointed office seeker.
The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
called Jim Crow laws.
Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were
designed to intimidate African Americans to accept second-class status.
The main reason(s) that the Chinese came to the United States from the 1850s until 1882 was/were to
dig for gold and sledgehammer the tracks for the transcontinental railroad in the West.
The Liberal Republican revolt from the regular Republican party in 1872 was motivated primarily by
disgust at the corruption and scandals of the Grant administration.
All of the following are true statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1875 except
it was supposed to guarantee equal rights in voting and access to education for blacks and whites.
The 1884 presidential election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for
its viciously personal attacks between the two candidates.
Blacks who violated the Jim Crow laws or other elements of the South's racial code were often
lynched by Southern whites.
Black Americans were hard hit by the gloom times of the depression years of the mid 1870s because
many had put their savings in the Freedman's Savings and Trust, only to see it vanish due to bad investments by the savings bank.
In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.
Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usually
party loyalists.
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.
During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was/ were
political patronage.
Despite the lack of national political issues, Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issues like
prohibition and education.
The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes began with
sharp class conflict and a national railroad strike.
The fundamental attitude of Hayes and other Republican administrations toward labor agitation was
strong support for the railroads and other business in their efforts to crush labor organizing.
The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to
take a competitive examination.
President Ulysses S. 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.
An epidemic of violent strikes and labor conflict in 1892 led to the prospect of
the Populists adding industrial workers to their base of support among farmers.
The absence of children in largely all-male Chinese immigrant communities meant that
the cultural and language assimilation fostered by children were harder to attain.
The national railroad strike of 1877 started when
the four largest railroads cut salaries by 10 percent.
President Cleveland's hostility to silver and silver-backed currency was driven primarily by his fear that
the growing drain of gold from the U.S. Treasury would force the United States off the gold standard.
The political developments of the l890s were largely shaped by
the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time.
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 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.
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.
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War
waste, speculation, and corruption afflicted both business and government.
During the mid to late nineteenth century, Chinese women
were very few in number, and most became prostitutes.
Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from
years of depression and deflation that undermined workers' wages and living standards.