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WorksheetsGuilded America Chapter 23
Total questions: 52
Worksheet time: 26mins
In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
transformed his personal popularity into a large majority in the popular vote
owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.
gained his victory by winning the votes of the majority of whites.
won a clear majority of electoral votes in the Electoral College, but narrowly lost the popular vote in the country.
All of these choices are correct.
In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters
of the gory memories of the Civil War and the Republican party's role in the Union's victory.
that the Civil War had been caused by the election of a Republican president.
that Republicans had reformed the corrupt radical regimes in the Reconstruction South.
that radical Republicans catered to freed slaves during Reconstruction.
of Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks.
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War
the push for social, political, and economic reforms intensified and gained momentum in and out of state, local, and the federal government.
Americans retained a strong sense of idealistic sacrifice.
the North developed a strong sense of moral superiority.
concern for racial questions took precedence over economics.
waste, speculation, and corruption afflicted both business and government.
The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated
the typical lack of ethics of the Gilded Age, which also pervaded government in the form of bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections.
the concern of urban political bosses with representing the best political and economic interests of their urban constitutients.
the high value on honesty and ethics put on governing during this age.
the inability of the press and the legal establishment to take down a notoriously venal political figure after a lifetime of managing a politically corrupt machine.
the effectiveness of the federal government in ferreting out urban political corruption at an early stage in its development.
The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved
public utility company bribes.
Bureau of Indian Affairs payoffs.
railroad construction kickbacks.
bribes to French government officials in exchange to promises of favorable tariff treatment of French goods.
manipulating agricultural commodities traded on the Chicago Board of Trade.
In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of the Crédit Mobilizer
left the country.
belatedly started to follow honest business practices.
used shady bookkeeping to conceal their insider financial deals.
tried to gain immunity by testifying before Congress.
bribed key congressmen by giving them shares of the company's valuable stock.
The Liberal Republican revolt from the regular Republican party in 1872 was motivated primarily by
dismay at the Republicans' weakness in upholding radical Reconstruction in the South.
a desire to see President Grant reelected among these LIberal Republicans and fear that the regular Republican Party would not renoinate Grant for president because of this policies.
disgust at the corruption and scandals of the Grant administration.
a fervent passion for reforms on behalf of women and blacks.
a desire to strengthen the federal government's regulation of big business.
President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because
the Democrats and Liberal Republicans could not decide on a single candidate.
he promised reforms in the political system.
he was the only candidate who enjoyed support in both the North and South.
the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the politically and personally eccentric and dubiously sound editor Horace Greeley as their candidate.
of the massive support of black voters in the Reconstruction South.
A major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was
the issuance of millions of dollars in greenbacks.
the expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets would bear.
a credit crunch caused by extremely high interest rates.
Wall Street's fears about the power of the radical Greenback Labor Party.
excessive speculation in mining stocks.
As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873, debotrs strongly advocated a return to gold as the oly form of American money.
a return to gold as the only form of American money.
establishment of a federally regulated system of savings and loan banks.
the apointment of farmers and workers to the Treasury Departmet.
bankers making additional, greater loans at loawer interest rates to finance new edconomic ventures by promoters who were having trouble realizing profits from their previous railroad, mines, facty, and grainfield investments.
inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency.
Black Americans were hard hit by the gloom times of the drepression years of the mid 1870s because
many had put their savings in the Freedman's Savings and Trust, only to see it vanish due to bad investments by the savings bank.
they did not set aside significant amounts of money for savings, preferring to spend or invest almost every dollar that they earned.
mobs of unemployed workers took out their frustrations through violence against blacks.
they lost what little money they owned to directly investing in specultion schemes that had gone bankrupt.
None of these choices are correct.
One result of Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s was
the rise of the American dollar against foreign currencies.
damage to the coutnry's credit rating.
the return to the silver "Dollar of Our Daddies" as the dominant form of US moneyl
the defeat of a Democratic House of Representatives in 1874.
a political trun to the Democrats and the rise of the new Greenback Labor Party.
Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usually
reformers
incorruptible
party loyalists
policitical independents and gadflys
politicians who did not rely on Civil War veterans or their fraternal organizations for support.
The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s
were all won by Republicans
revolved primarily around the charismatic personalities running for the presidency.
were all won by Democrats.
usually involved shar partisan differences over issues like currency policy and civil-service reform.
aroused enormous turnouts among voters even though there few significant issues.
In religious and culutural terms, the Republicans appealed especially to groups that derived their view from
transcednentalism and utopian traditions that opposed war and proprosed alternatives to traditional marriage.
Catholic and Lutheran traditions of creed, liturgy, and understanding of human weakness.
Baptist tradition that feared government intrusion on personal and religious freedom.
scientific tradtion that saw religion as a fading force in American society.
Puritan traditiion of strict moral codes and governemtn regulation of morality and society.
Despite the lack of national political issues, Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issued like
imperialism and foreign missions.
prohibition and education.
race relations and racial justice in the South.
sexual morality and women's rights.
treatment of criminal prisoners and the mentally ill.
During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and Republican parties was/were
political and social reform movements.
the Roman Catholic Church.
ideological commitment.
big-city political machines.
political patronage.
The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in
the small townsof the Northeast and the South.
big business and those involved in international trade.
Midwestern farmers.
the white South ad big-city immigrant machines.
northern blacks and Asian immigrants.
Which of the following was not among the regional groups that formed the solid poltical base of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century?
Immigrants living in the large Northeastern cities.
Union Civil War venterans of the Grand Army of the Republic
Southern black freemen.
Midwestern farmers and small merchants.
rural and small-town Northeast residents.
The major electoral problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
who would be Speaker of the House
the two sets of different election returns, on Democratic, and one Republican, submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana,
Samual Tilden's association with corrupt politicians of the Northeast.
President Grant's campaign for a third term.
Rutherford Hayes's controversial ties to US Senator Roscoe Conkling and the Stalwarts.
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
a renewal of the Republican commitment to protect black civil rights in the South and the continued presence of federal troops in the Wouth.
the withdrawal of federal trooos and abandonment of federal protection of blak civil and voting rights in the South
the election of Democrat presidential candidate Samuel Tilden to the presidence.
Republican support for an inflationary silver-money policy.
Nones of these choices are correct.
The sequence of presidential termsof the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) was
Cleveland, Hays, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, and Garfield
Garfield, Hayes Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, and Cleveland
Cleveland, Garfield, Arthur, Hayes, Harrison, Cleveland.
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland.
Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, and Cleveland.
All of the following are true statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1875 except
it marked a last political gasp of the congressiional radical Republicans.
it was supposed to guarantee equal trights in voting and access to education for blacks and whites.
its purpose was to ensure equal accomodations in public places.
it prohibited racial discimination in jury selection.
uch of its content was deemed unconstitution in the Civil Rights cases of 1883,
In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
African Americans could be denied the right to vote.
segregation was always unconstitutional.
"separate but equal" public schools and facilities were constitution under the "eual protection' clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
the Fourteenth Amendment protections of "equal protection" applied only to African Americans who could prove that an individual segragated black school or facility was unequal to comparabel white public school or public acility.
African Americans born as slaves could not sue in federal court.
At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfrnchised African Americans using
literacy requirements
poll taxes
onerous and intimidating voter registration law.
lynching
all of these choices are correct.
Blacks who violated the Jim Crow laws or other elements of the South's racial code were often
criminially prosecuted in federal courts.
ostracized by their own community.
assailed from both white and black churchs.
losing their sharecropping and tenant farming employment.
lynched by Southern whites.
The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
found only in the North
called Jim Crow laws.
overturned by Plessy v. Ferguson.
undermined by the crop lien system.
unconnected to the informal separation of blacks and whites in the immediate post- Civil War years.
Pulbic executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were
retaliation for violent crives against whites.
designed to intimidate African Americans to accept second -class status.
done to scare blacks into moving out of the South.
exceeding rare during the decade between 1890 and 1900.
prosecuted vigorously by Southern state and local legal authorities.
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after Reconstruction?
As sharecroppers, blacks found themselves at the mercy of former masters who were now their landlaords and creditors.
Some merchants manipulated the system so that farmers remained perpetually in debt to them.
Black sharecroppers often lived in conditions scarcly better than when they were slaves.
White southerners did not work as sharecroppers.
Sharecroppers barely scraped by economically.
The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes began with
improved race relations in the South and the West
increased overseas expansion.
sharp class conflict and a national railroad strike.
public demands for positive immigration reform.
All of these choices are correct.
The national railroad strike of 1877 started when
President Hayes refused to use troops to keep the trains running
the four largest railroads cut salaries by 10 percent.
working hourse were cut back by the railroad companies.
the railroad workers refused to cross the picket lines of cargo loaders.
the railroads tried to hire Chinese Workers.
The fundamental attitude of Hayes and other Repbulican administrations toward labor agitation was
strong support for the railroads and other business in their efforts to crush labor orgainizing.
attempts to establish the federal government as a neutral ariter between business and labor.
support for organized labor's efforts to unionize various industries
to support reaonsable regulation of business.
to try to enlist farmers as a political counterbalance to industrial laborers.
Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from
agitation by Communist sympathizers and other political radicals.
workers being given the legal right to unionize by the federal government.
the collapse of the steel industry.
workers' unreasonable demands and strikes for higher pay and benefits during a period of eonomic stagnation.
years of depression ad deflation that undermined workers' wages and living standards.
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
negotiated a restricted-immigration agreement with China.
did nothing, as it was California's problem.
prosecuted the Kearneyites and other inciters of anti-kearneyites in San Francisco.
sent many Chinese back to their homeland.
passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.
Which of the following internal developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the US?
The disintegration of the Chinese empire.
The seizure of farmland by landlords.
The intrusion of European powers.
Internal political turnmoil.
All of these choices are correct.
The main reason(s) that the Chinese came to the United States from the 1850s until 1882 was/were to
dig for gold and sledgehammer the tracks for the transcontinental railroad in the West.
marry and raise families on the West Coast.
Replace the newly freed slaves in the South.
buy their own farms and cultivate agriculture.
work as skilled factory workers on the East Coast.
The absence of children in largely all-male Chinese immigrant communities meant that
the economic benefits of child labor were largerly absent
the cultural and language assimilation fostered by children were harder to attain.
many Chinese organizations sought to bring in adopted children from China.
white social work agencies were slower to become involved with Chinese communities.
education was seldom a priority in Chinese communities.
During the mid to late nineteenth century, Chinese women
did not emigrate to the US at all.
settled mostly on the East Coast.
outnumbered Chinese men as immigrants to the US.
were very few in number, and most became prostitutes
competed with Irish and black women for jobs in domestic service.
President James A. Garfield was assassinated
by an ex-Confederate bitter at Garfield's Union army service.
by an unknown and an undiscoverable assassin.
by a jealous former lover.
by a deranged, disappointed office seeker.
by a political anarchist.
The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to
take a competitive examination.
present a written recommendation from a congressman or senator.
agree to make financial contributions to their political party.
submit a resume listing their experience and providing references.
agree not to take a job in a related private business for two years after leaving government service.
With the Pendleton Acot prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, polticians increasingly sought money from
new immigrants
contracts doing business with the federal government
factory workers and farmers
foreign contributors
big corporations.
The 1884 presidential election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for
its emphasis on policy differences on economic and social issues
low voter turnout
its viciously personal attacks between the two candidates.
a landslide victory for the reform-minded Republicans.
its absence of geographic sectionalism in the respective popular support of each candidate.
Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a Democratic party affiliation, differing from the other four presidents?
Ulysses S Grant
Rutherford Hayes
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Chester Arthur
In seeking congressional approval to enact lower tariffs in 1887, President Grover Cleveland
sought to reduce an embarrassing federal Treasury surprlus of over $100 million
incurred the political wrath of nervous industrialists who provided heavy financial support to the Repbulicans and their legally dubious vote buying operation during the 1888 presidential election.
devided and demoralized his own Democratic party, which was forced to fight the upcoming election over the controversial tariff issue.
probably cost himself reelection in 1888 because the tariff issue mobilized the Republicans quite effectively.
All of these choices are correct.l
Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populst party in their convention of 1892?
Government ownership of the railroads, telephone, and telegraph.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver in the raito of 16 to 1
The adoption of the initiative petition and the referendum.
Government guarantees of parity prices for farmers.
Immigration restrictions.
An epidemic of violent strikes and labor conflict in 1892 led to the prospect of
a switch of urban workers form the Democratic tot he Republican party.
Populists declaring their opposition to immigration restrictions.
Populists support for a revolutionary overthow of reactionary state governments.
the Populists adding industrial workers tot heir base of support among farmers.
Grover Cleveland's switch to a pro-labor and pro-farmer campaign platform.
The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois
Oklahama, Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont
Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada
The political developments of the 1890s were largely shaped by
the widespread prosperity and federal budget surpluses.
America's growing involvenment in overseas conflicts.
the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time.
the growing black rebellion against segregation and racial oppression.
the deadlock among REpublicans, Democrats, and Populists in Congress.
Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act let to the the rise in the 1890s of the pro-silver political lead
Tom Watson
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
Thomas Reed
Samuel Gompers
President Cleveland's hostility to silver and silver-backed currency was driven primarily by his fear that
the growing drain of gold from the US Treasury would force the US off the gold standard.
the unlimited supplies of silver within the US would cause an extended depression.
supporting free silver would be poltically beneficial to Democrats such as William Jennings B ryan.
Soon gold and silver would both be replaced by strictly paer currency.
the US Treasury did not have sufficienct capacity to store silver bullion at Fort Knox.
President Cleveland's response to the depression of the 1890s demonstrated that he
was able to work effectly with JP Morgan to address the problems of unemployment
understood the probolems of urban workers better than those of farmers.
had a weak grasp of the economic theory that lay behind the demand for free silver.
was unable to deal effectively with such a massive economic crisis.
was able to skillfully incorporate some Populist proposals into the Democratic party.
Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he
was personally dishonest and corrupt
did not believe in the principles of the Republican party.
was incapable of striking the type of political compromises necessary for a successful political leader.
had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.
lacked political ambition.
