Gilded Age and Reform

Match each president to his description.

• vice president, became president due to assassination

• Chester A. Arthur

• created the Civil Service Commision

• James Garfield

• signed the Sherman antitrust act

• Grover Cleveland

• shot by disappointed office seeker

• Benjamin Harrison

The ​ ​ (a)   ​ required the direct election of senators and the​ (b)   gave Congress the power to pass income tax.

• Seventeenth Amendment
• Sixteenth Amendment

Put the presidents in the order in which they served.

• Chester A. Arthur

• Benjamin Harrison

• Grover Cleveland

• James Garfield

If you get a civil service job, you work for the:

• railroads

• government

• military

• newspapers

In order to get a civil service job, workers must:​ ​ (a)  

• pass a test
• be born in the United State
• be born in the United States
• pay a fee

This is the process where people may vote to remove an elected official.

This is the term for a journalist who uncovered problems and wrote about them in the newpapers.

• muckraker

• correspondent

• complainer

• attacker

Match each word to the correct definition.

• a process that allows the voters to put a bill before a state legislature

• referendum

• a way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law

• initiative

• an election in which voters, not party leaders, choose their party's candid

• primary

With a graduated income tax:

• everyone pays an equal percentage of their income to the government.

• the percentage a person pays depends on their age

• the percentage a person pays depends on how much they make

• Workers under 18 do not have to pay income tax.

Answer explanation

A person who makes $25,000 might have to pay 5% of what they make, and a person who makes $125,000 might have to pay 10% of what they make.

In a spoils system, ​ (a)   are ​rewarded ​with ​ (b)   ​ .

• political supporters
• government jobs
• muckrakers
• civil service workers
• more money
• paid time off
• politicians