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287446384At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grantaccepted gifts of houses and money from citizens
287446385In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant owed his victory to the votes offormer slaves
287446386As a result of the Civil War, waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature ofthe Republic
287446387In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters of the "treason" of the Confederate Democratsduring the Civil War
287446388Jim Fisk is least related to"Black Friday", Jay Gould, "Ohio Idea" and Wall Street gold market
287446389One 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 satiristThomas Nast
287446390The Crédit Mobilier scandal involvedrailroad construction kickbacks
287446391In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of Crédit Mobilizer distributed shares of the company's valuable stock tokey congressman
287446392President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 becausehis opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency
287446393Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associatedA: Roscoe Conking- Stalwarts; B. James Blaine- "Half-Breeds"; C. Horace Greeley - Liberal Republicans; D. Ulysses Grant- Regular Republicans
287446394One cause of the panic that broke in 1872 wasthe construction of more factories than existing markets would bear
287446395As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggestedinflationary policies
287446396One result of Republican "hard money" policies was the formation ofthe Greenback Labor party
287446397Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usuallyparty loyalists
287446398During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicanshad few significant economic differences
287446399The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s aroused great interest amongvoters
287446400One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age wassharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties
287446401During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties waspolitical patronage
287446402"Spoilsmen" was the label attached to those whoexpected government jobs from their party's elected officeholders
287446403The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on the two sets of election returns submitted byFlorida, South Carolina, and Louisiana
287446404The Compromise of 1877 resulted inthe withdrawal of federal troops from the South
287446405The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age(including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) wasHayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland
287446406In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that"separate but equal" facilities were constitutional
287446407At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans withliteracy requirements, poll taxes, economic intimidation, and grandfather clauses
287446408The legal codes that established the system of segregation were calledJim Crow laws
287446409The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes opened withscenes of class warfare
287446410The railroad of 1877 started when the four largest railroadscut salaries by ten percent
287446411Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from the collapse of of thesteel industry
287447227Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in the use offederal troops during strikes
287447228In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress passed a law prohibitingthe immigration of Chinese laborers to America
287637026The 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
287637027One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was todig for gold
287637028The Chinese word tong meansmeeting hall
287637029Abraham Lincoln was the first president tobe assassinated while in office
287637030James Garfield was the second president tobe assassinated while in office
287637031President James A. Garfield was assassinated by aderanged, disappointed office seeker
287637032The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office totake a competitive examination
287637033With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now sought money frombig corporations
287637034The 1884 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for itspersonal attacks on the two candidates
287637035Grover Cleveland had a different political affiliation than otherGilded Age presidents
287637036When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support ofbusinesspeople
287637037On the issue of the tariff, President Grover Cleveland advocated alower rate
287637038The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election wastariff policy
287637039In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true thatthe locus of political power was Congress
287637040The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses byexpanding pensions for Civil War veterans
287637041The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 wereKansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada
287637042The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in a racist backlash thateliminated black voting in the South
287637043The political developments of the 1890s were largely shaped by themost severe and extended economic depression up to that time
287637044Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leaderWilliam Jennings Bryan
287637045President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action ofborrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate
287637046The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 was theRepublicans

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