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| 5830630041 | Which two countries beat the US in terms of population? | Britain and France | 0 | |
| 5830630042 | Ulysses S Grant was a great soldier but not a great... | politician | 1 | |
| 5830630043 | the nation believed that a good general would make a good... | president | 2 | |
| 5830630044 | Which cities gave Grant gifts for being a northern hero? | Phil., Washington, Galena, IL and NY | 3 | |
| 5830630045 | What year was Grant given the republican nom.? | 1868 | 4 | |
| 5830630046 | Why did the Republicans nominate him? | wanted to reconstruct the south with force | 5 | |
| 5830630047 | what was grant's campaign slogan? | let us have peace | 6 | |
| 5830630048 | What did all democrats agree on? | denounced military reconstruction | 7 | |
| 5830630049 | Which democrats wanted war bonds to be redeemed in gold? | wealthy eastern | 8 | |
| 5830630050 | Which democrats presented the "ohio idea" that called for redemption in greenbacks? | poorer midwestern | 9 | |
| 5830630051 | why did they want redemption in greenbacks? | lower interest rates | 10 | |
| 5830630052 | Did the Democratic nominee Horatio Seymour accept the ohio idea? | no | 11 | |
| 5830630053 | gaining support for grant by "waving the blood shirt" means what? | reviving gory memories of the civil war | 12 | |
| 5830630054 | who won electoral college? | grant | 13 | |
| 5830630055 | who did whites vote for the most? | seymour | 14 | |
| 5830630056 | which states ballots were not counted? | MI, TX, and VA | 15 | |
| 5830630057 | which people were corrupt? | railroad promoters, stock market manipulators, judges, legislators, and politicians | 16 | |
| 5830630058 | who were "jubilee jim"fisk and jay gould? | pair who plotted in 1869 to corner the gold market | 17 | |
| 5830630059 | what did they want the treasury to do? | stop selling gold | 18 | |
| 5830630060 | who did they target as a politician? | Grant's brother in law-paid him | 19 | |
| 5830630061 | how did their plan fail? | on black friday congress was compelled to release gold | 20 | |
| 5830630062 | Who was Burly "boss" tweed? | led tweed ring-employed bribery | 21 | |
| 5830630063 | which ny times cartoonist exposed tweed? | thomas nast | 22 | |
| 5830630064 | which lawyer prosecuted tweed? | samuel j tilden | 23 | |
| 5830630065 | how was grant a part of the crédit mobilier scandal in 1872? | credit mobilier railroad illegally hired themselves to build railroad then gave stock to congressmen-newspaper exposed two congressmen and vice president | 24 | |
| 5830630066 | which of grant's cabinet were involved with the whiskey ring in 1874-75? | private secretary and Secretary of War William Belknap | 25 | |
| 5830630067 | why did the liberal republican party form? | wanted end of corruption in gov and end of military reconst. | 26 | |
| 5830630068 | who did they nominate as pres.? | horace greeley-editor of NY times | 27 | |
| 5830630069 | why did Greeley not appeal to democrats but then win they're favor? | he attacked them in his newspaper-then was against military reconst. | 28 | |
| 5830630070 | who did the republicans nominate in 1872? | renom. Grant | 29 | |
| 5830630071 | who won the election? | grant | 30 | |
| 5830630072 | even though the liberal rep. party didn't last, what did they inspire to happen after the election? | passing of amnesty acts against corruption reduce civil war tariffs civil service reform | 31 | |
| 5830630073 | what caused the panic of 1873? | bankers had made too many loans to so many projects | 32 | |
| 5830630074 | how many businesses went bankrupt? | 15000 | 33 | |
| 5830630075 | how were blacks hit the hardest? | freedmen's savings and trust company collapsed | 34 | |
| 5830630076 | why did "cheap money supporters"want more greenbacks? | after the war congress withdrew currency-now thought it would pay off debts easier | 35 | |
| 5830630077 | what did creditors want? | wanted deflation of greenbacks | 36 | |
| 5830630078 | what did the resumption act of 1875 do? | withdrew more greenbacks from circulation and redemption of debts with gold starting in 1879 | 37 | |
| 5830630079 | why was silver not used by congress? | was not as valuable as gold-did not use in currency | 38 | |
| 5830630080 | did the method of "contraction" (reducing greenback circulation) help the depression? | no, worsened it | 39 | |
| 5830630081 | what positive effect did it have? | people didn't want to exchange lighter greenbacks for gold | 40 | |
| 5830630082 | what did republican hard money policy lead to? | a democratic HOR in 1874 and Greenback Labor party 1878 | 41 | |
| 5830630083 | what was the gilded age? | three decades after civil war-nickname by mark twain | 42 | |
| 5830630084 | how many times did the majority party in HOR switch between 1869-1891? | six | 43 | |
| 5830630085 | which economic issues did the dem and rep agree on? | tariff and civil service reform | 44 | |
| 5830630086 | what did republican voters trace their lineage to? | Puritanism- codes of morality and gov should play role in regulating economic and political affairs of society | 45 | |
| 5830630087 | and democrats? | lutherans and roman catholics-less stern view on human weakness, toleration of differences, gov should impose single moral standard | 46 | |
| 5830630088 | which issues produced political battles at local level? | temperament and religious values | 47 | |
| 5830630089 | which issues produced political battles at a bigger level? | prohibition and education | 48 | |
| 5830630090 | where was democratic support the strongest? | in the south and northern industrial cities | 49 | |
| 5830630091 | where was republican support the strongest? | midwest and rural northeast | 50 | |
| 5830630092 | what was the grand army of the republic? | fraternal organization of several hundred veterans | 51 | |
| 5830630093 | what is the disbursing of jobs to gain votes? | patronages | 52 | |
| 5830630094 | Who led the Stalwart faction? | Lord Roscoe Conkling-US senator of Ny | 53 | |
| 5830630095 | Who were the Half-Breeds? | opposed to conklingites-civil service reform | 54 | |
| 5830630096 | Who was the leader of the half breeds? | james G blaine | 55 | |
| 5830630097 | Was grant able to run for third term? | no-shut down by HOR | 56 | |
| 5830630098 | Which republican candidate was the "great unknown"? | rutherford b hayes | 57 | |
| 5830630099 | which state gave him the home field advantage? | ohio | 58 | |
| 5830630100 | who was the democratic nom.? | samuel j tilden | 59 | |
| 5830630101 | who had more electoral votes? who had more popular votes? | tilden for both | 60 | |
| 5830630102 | Which three states were disputed? | LA, SC, and FL | 61 | |
| 5830630103 | What was the compromise of 1877? | purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the national government pulling the last federal troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era | 62 | |
| 5830630104 | What did the democrats ask in return for hayes being president? | that the gov withdraw troops from LA and SC | 63 | |
| 5830630105 | What political aspects did the republicans give the democrats? | assured them place in presidential patronage passed bill for texas and pacific railroad's construction of transcontinental line (promise not kept) | 64 | |
| 5830630106 | how many days before the inauguration was the compromise held? | three | 65 | |
| 5830630107 | what happened as a result of the hayes-tilden deal? | republicans abandoned efforts for racial equality | 66 | |
| 5830630108 | What was the Civil Rights Act 1875? | equal accommodations in public places and prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection-not passed | 67 | |
| 5830630109 | What was the 14th amendment? | included only gov violations of civil rights | 68 | |
| 5830630110 | What did blacks face if they tried to assert their rights in the south? | unemployment, eviction, or physical harm | 69 | |
| 5830630111 | what was sharecropping? | slaves went on former masters lands who became their landlords and creditors | 70 | |
| 5830630112 | what was the "crop-lien" system? | storekeepers extended credit to small farmers for food and supplies-merchants took advantage of blacks | 71 | |
| 5830630113 | What were the jim crow laws? | legal codes of segregation literacy requirements, voter registration laws and poll taxes | 72 | |
| 5830630114 | what did the pless vs ferguson case say? | "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional | 73 | |
| 5830630115 | what did the end of the reconstruction era open up? | class struggle | 74 | |
| 5830630116 | why were there class struggles? | depression and panic of 1873 | 75 | |
| 5830630117 | what caused railroad workers to revolt? | 4 top railroad presidents decided to cut workers' wages 1877 | 76 | |
| 5830630118 | what action by the president increased working class support for the strikers? | called in federal troops | 77 | |
| 5830630119 | what did the strike reveal? | weakness of labor movements against the gov | 78 | |
| 5830630120 | which two ethnicities clashed the most in labor unions? | irish and chinese | 79 | |
| 5830630121 | who were most of the chinese immigrants? | single males who went to west in search of gold-in 1880 most went back to china with savings | 80 | |
| 5830630122 | why were these immigrants at a disadvantage? | didn't have children to learn language and assimilate | 81 | |
| 5830630123 | who were the kearneyites? | under leadership of irishman Denis Kearn-lashed out against chinese | 82 | |
| 5830630124 | what was the chinese exclusion act of 1882? | prohibited further immigration from china | 83 | |
| 5830630125 | what did the US vs Wong kim Ark case do? | ruled banning native-born chinese americans as unconstitutional | 84 | |
| 5830630126 | who was the republican nom. in 1880? | james A garfield (OH)-won vp-chester A arthur (NY) | 85 | |
| 5830630127 | who was the democratic nom.? | winfield scott hancock-war hero | 86 | |
| 5830630128 | who did garfield have arguments with? | Sec of state James Blaine and senator roscoe conkling | 87 | |
| 5830630129 | who was charles J guiteau? | shot garfield in the back in 1881-died | 88 | |
| 5830630130 | what was guiteau's aim? | to give conklingnites good jobs | 89 | |
| 5830630131 | what was a positive outcome of the assassination? | caused arthur to reform spoils system | 90 | |
| 5830630132 | what was the pendleton act of 1883? | est. civil service commission and campaign contributions from federal employees illegal | 91 | |
| 5830630133 | what was the negative outcome? | politicians had to look elsewhere for money-big businesses | 92 | |
| 5830630134 | what did blaine lack that made him not be the republican nom. in 1884? | honesty-"mulligan letters"->corrupt deal with railroad | 93 | |
| 5830630135 | what was the rumor with democratic nom. grover cleveland? | he was involved in an affair with a widow | 94 | |
| 5830630136 | the election of 1884 was based more on .... than .... | personality, principle | 95 | |
| 5830630137 | why did the irish vote for cleveland? | blaine didn't stand up for them | 96 | |
| 5830630138 | what economic policy did cleveland believe in? | laissez faire-appealed to businessmen and bankers | 97 | |
| 5830630139 | which bill did cleveland veto in 1887? | provided seeds for texas farmers | 98 | |
| 5830630140 | how did he narrow the north and south chasm? | elected two confederates to cabinent | 99 | |
| 5830630141 | why did cleveland fire republicans? | to make room for democrats | 100 | |
| 5830630142 | what did cleveland continuously veto? | military pensions | 101 | |
| 5830630143 | what resulted from the high tariffs after the war? | a high surplus in congress | 102 | |
| 5830630144 | what were the two ways to squander the surplus? | spend on military pensions or lower tariff | 103 | |
| 5830630145 | what were the positives of lowering the tariff? | lowered prices for consumers and less protection for monopolies | 104 | |
| 5830630146 | what did republicans believe lowering tariffs would do? | higher taxes and lower wages and increased unemployment | 105 | |
| 5830630147 | who was the republican nom. in 1888? | benjamin harrison | 106 | |
| 5830630148 | who was the democratic nom.? | grover cleveland | 107 | |
| 5830630149 | who was the first president voted out of office since Van Buren? | cleveland | 108 | |
| 5830630150 | who dominated the house in 1888? | democrats | 109 | |
| 5830630151 | who was the republican speaker of the house? | thomas reed | 110 | |
| 5830630152 | what did he do to the stubborn democrats? | denied they were legally there in role call | 111 | |
| 5830630153 | what did the billion dollar congress do to pay off debt? | gave pensions to civil war veterans and purchased silver | 112 | |
| 5830630154 | which tariff protected republican industrialists from foreign competition? | mckinley tariff act of 1890-boosted rates | 113 | |
| 5830630155 | why was this a burden to farmers? | had to buy high price american manufactured goods while selling goods to competitive world market | 114 | |
| 5830630156 | why were republicans voted out of congress majority in 1890? | rural voters hated tariff-few ppl of Farmers Alliance elected to gov | 115 | |
| 5830630157 | what was the populist party? | farmers alliance of west and south | 116 | |
| 5830630158 | what did they call for? | inflation of silver, graduated income tax, gov ownership of railroads, telegraph and telephone, direct election of US senators, one term limit of pres., referendum to allow citizens to shape legisl. directly, shorter workday, and immigration restriction | 117 | |
| 5830630159 | who did they nominate? | greenbacks Gen. James Weaver | 118 | |
| 5830630160 | what was the homestead strike in 1892? | steelworkers angry over pay cuts-used violence | 119 | |
| 5830630161 | what was another strike crushed by federal troops in 1892? | silver miners strike in Idaho | 120 | |
| 5830630162 | what did the populists fall short of? | the electoral majority | 121 | |
| 5830630163 | which group was opposed to them? | industrialist laborers | 122 | |
| 5830630164 | why did the south not vote for them? | farmers alliance believed in racial equality | 123 | |
| 5830630165 | which populist leader reached out to the black community? | tom watson | 124 | |
| 5830630166 | what was the grandfather clause? | excerpted blacks from literacy tests to vote whose forebear had voted in 1860 (almost no one) | 125 | |
| 5830630167 | what did the populist party become? | racist | 126 | |
| 5830630168 | who become president in 1892? | cleveland-only president to ever be reelected | 127 | |
| 5830630169 | what were the causes of the depression of 1893? | overbuilding, labor disorders and agricultural depression, silver, and loans to europe | 128 | |
| 5830630170 | what decreased gold? | the "endless chain" operation | 129 | |
| 5830630171 | why did cleveland repeal the sherman silver purchase act of 1890? | congress was losing gold money | 130 | |
| 5830630172 | what would have happened if cleveland died from mouth surgery and vp adlai e stevenson took over? | would've deepened the crisis | 131 | |
| 5830630173 | which democratic congressmen wanted free silver? | william jennings bryan | 132 | |
| 5830630174 | what did cleveland do to democrats like him? | alienated them | 133 | |
| 5830630175 | what would lowering america's gold standard do? | cripple american international trade | 134 | |
| 5830630176 | what did cleveland do to restore the nation's finances? | asked for loans from jp morgan and head of wall st | 135 | |
| 5830630177 | what was the backlash he received? | believed he had sold out the nation | 136 | |
| 5830630178 | what was the wilson-gorman tariff of 1894? | democrats wanted lower tariff-barely made a dent in mckinley tariff | 137 | |
| 5830630179 | who are referred to as the forgettable presidents? | grant, hayes, garfield, arthur, harrison and cleveland | 138 | |
| 5830630180 | what did cleveland fail to do? | solve the economic crisis of 1893 | 139 | |
| 5830630181 | 1868 | grant defeats seymour for presidency | 140 | |
| 5830630182 | 1869 | fisk and gould corner gold market | 141 | |
| 5830630183 | 1871 | tweed scandal in NY | 142 | |
| 5830630184 | 1872 | credit mobilier scandal exposed liberal republicans break with grant grant defeats greeley for presidency | 143 | |
| 5830630185 | 1873 | panic of 1873 | 144 | |
| 5830630186 | 1875 | whiskey ring scandal civil rights act of 1875 resumption act | 145 | |
| 5830630187 | 1876 | hayes-tilden election standoff and crisis | 146 | |
| 5830630188 | 1877 | compromise of 1877 reconstruction ends railroads strikes paralyze nation | 147 | |
| 5830630189 | 1880 | garfield defeats hancock for presidency | 148 | |
| 5830630190 | 1881 | garfield assassinated-arthur as president | 149 | |
| 5830630191 | 1882 | chinese exclusion act | 150 | |
| 5830630192 | 1883 | civil rights cases pendleton act sets up ivil service commission | 151 | |
| 5830630193 | 1884 | cleveland defeats blaine for presidency | 152 | |
| 5830630194 | 1888 | harrison defeats cleveland for presidency | 153 | |
| 5830630195 | 1890 | billion dollar congress mckinley tariff act sherman silver purchase act (repealed 1893) | 154 | |
| 5830630196 | 1892 | homestead steel strike coeur d'alene (idaho) silver miners strike peoples party candidate Weaver wins 22 electoral votes cleveland defeats harrison and weaver for presidency | 155 | |
| 5830630197 | 1893 | depression of 1893 begins republicans regain HOR | 156 | |
| 5830630198 | 1895 | JP morgan's banking syndicate loans $65 million in gold to federal gov | 157 | |
| 5830630199 | 1896 | Plessy vs Ferguson legitimizes "separate but equal" | 158 |
