Chapter 23

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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

I​n 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.


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