Ch. 23 Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

Which one of the following is least related to the other three?

• Jim Fisk
• Black Friday
• Ohio Idea
• Wall Street Gold Market

One Weapon that was used to put Boss Tweed, leader of New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, in jail was

• federal income tax evasion charges
• the cartoons of political satirist Thomas Nast
• the RICO racketeering act.
• New York City's ethics laws

the Credit Mobilier scandal involved

• public utility bribes
• railroad construction kickbacks
• evasion of excise taxes on distilled liquor
• manipulating the Wall Street stock market

In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of Credit Mobilier

• left the country
• belatedly started to follow honest business practices
• tried to gain immunity by testifying before congress
• distributed shares of the company's valuable stock to key congressmen

one cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was 

• the reissuance of millions of dollars in greenbacks
• the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear
• an extremely high rate of inflation
• excessive speculation in mining stocks

as a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested

• a policy of deflation
• passage of the Resumption Act of 1875
• stronger federal control of banking
• inflationary policies

during the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican Parties was

• the Roman Catholic Church
• ideological commitment
• political patronage
• big city political machines

"Spoilmen" was the label attached to those who

• expected government jobs from their party's elected officeholders
• ravaged the pristine environment of the golden west for their own profit
• manipulated railroad stocks to their own private advantage
• supported civil service reform

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

• the election of a Democrat to the Presidency
• passage of the Bland Allison Silver Purchase Act
• the withdrawal of federal troops from the south
• a plan to build the first transcontinental railroad

in the 1896 case of Plessy v Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

• African Americans could be denied the right to vote
• segregation was unconstitutional
• "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional
• literacy tests for voting were constitutional