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287446384 | At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant | accepted gifts of houses and money from citizens | |
287446385 | In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant owed his victory to the votes of | former slaves | |
287446386 | As a result of the Civil War, waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of | the Republic | |
287446387 | 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 | |
287446388 | Jim Fisk is least related to | "Black Friday", Jay Gould, "Ohio Idea" and Wall Street gold market | |
287446389 | 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 | |
287446390 | The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved | railroad construction kickbacks | |
287446391 | 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 congressman | |
287446392 | President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because | his opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency | |
287446393 | Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated | A: Roscoe Conking- Stalwarts; B. James Blaine- "Half-Breeds"; C. Horace Greeley - Liberal Republicans; D. Ulysses Grant- Regular Republicans | |
287446394 | One cause of the panic that broke in 1872 was | the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear | |
287446395 | As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested | inflationary policies | |
287446396 | One result of Republican "hard money" policies was the formation of | the Greenback Labor party | |
287446397 | Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usually | party loyalists | |
287446398 | During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans | had few significant economic differences | |
287446399 | The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s aroused great interest among | voters | |
287446400 | 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 | |
287446401 | During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was | political patronage | |
287446402 | "Spoilsmen" was the label attached to those who | expected government jobs from their party's elected officeholders | |
287446403 | The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on the two sets of election returns submitted by | Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana | |
287446404 | The Compromise of 1877 resulted in | the withdrawal of federal troops from the South | |
287446405 | 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 | |
287446406 | In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that | "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional | |
287446407 | At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans with | literacy requirements, poll taxes, economic intimidation, and grandfather clauses | |
287446408 | The legal codes that established the system of segregation were called | Jim Crow laws | |
287446409 | The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes opened with | scenes of class warfare | |
287446410 | The railroad of 1877 started when the four largest railroads | cut salaries by ten percent | |
287446411 | Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from the collapse of of the | steel industry | |
287447227 | Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in the use of | federal troops during strikes | |
287447228 | In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress passed a law prohibiting | the immigration of Chinese laborers to America | |
287637026 | 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 | |
287637027 | One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to | dig for gold | |
287637028 | The Chinese word tong means | meeting hall | |
287637029 | Abraham Lincoln was the first president to | be assassinated while in office | |
287637030 | James Garfield was the second president to | be assassinated while in office | |
287637031 | President James A. Garfield was assassinated by a | deranged, disappointed office seeker | |
287637032 | The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to | take a competitive examination | |
287637033 | With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now sought money from | big corporations | |
287637034 | The 1884 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for its | personal attacks on the two candidates | |
287637035 | Grover Cleveland had a different political affiliation than other | Gilded Age presidents | |
287637036 | When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support of | businesspeople | |
287637037 | On the issue of the tariff, President Grover Cleveland advocated a | lower rate | |
287637038 | The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was | tariff policy | |
287637039 | In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true that | the locus of political power was Congress | |
287637040 | The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by | expanding pensions for Civil War veterans | |
287637041 | The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were | Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada | |
287637042 | 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 | |
287637043 | The political developments of the 1890s were largely shaped by the | most severe and extended economic depression up to that time | |
287637044 | Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader | William Jennings Bryan | |
287637045 | President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of | borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate | |
287637046 | The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 was the | Republicans |