APUSH Ch. 23 Quiz

government service based on merit rather than on patronage or spoils system

• Pendleton Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Equal Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

President Chester A Arthur became president after Garfield's assassination. He thought that people should get government jobs on the basis of ___________ or ability.

• patronage

• The Spoils System

• Merit

• Recall

The practice of rewarding supporters with government jobs.

• Muckraking
• The Spoils System
• The Civil Service
• Idealism

19th century Chinese immigrants are known for what?

• Work in building the Transcontinental Railroad
• Work in New York factories
• Contributions to the steel industry
• Contributions to John D. Rockefeller

Which idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions?

• Melting Pot
• Birds of Passage
• Nativism
• All of the above

This law specifically barred Chinese laborers from entering the US, and was in place for more than 60 years.

• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• The Ban on Foreign Labor Act
• The Asian Immigration Act
• The Chinese Labor Law

Who ran the government during the Gilded Age?

• Politicians

• Immigrants

• Trump

• Big Business

What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?

• credit mobilier
• political machine
• corrected democracy
• electoral politics

Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman were

• wealthy industrialists of the late 1800s
• leaders of labor unions
• notorious industrial strikes
• horizontally consolidated companies

Who was the leader of Tammany Hall (New York Poltical Machine)?

• Andrew Carnegie
• Henry Ford
• John D. Rockefeller
• William Tweed