Chapter 23
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.
