HIST 1302 CH 21 – Flashcards
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The Democratic party appealed to southern white voters.
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True
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During the Gilded Age the same party never controlled both the presidency and Congress.
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False
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The Pendleton Act allowed for the coinage of more silver.
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False
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President Arthur supported both civil service reform and tariff reform.
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True
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Grover Cleveland advocated laws to regulate the railroads.
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True
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The first regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission, was created in 1887.
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True
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The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 outlawed corporate actions in "restraint of trade."
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False
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The high tariff hurt farmers by limiting their export markets.
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True
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Before 1878, the federal government had never authorized the coinage of silver.
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False
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Civil service reform was a result of the assassination of President James A. Garfield.
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True
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The Grange was an organization of farmers who became politicized because of their poor economic condition, which they blamed on the high rates charged by the railroads and big business.
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True
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The Populist party fused with the Republicans in the election of 1896 in an attempt to gain free and unlimited coinage of silver.
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False
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The Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 included a ruling that states could not interfere with the rights of blacks.
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False
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The center of the black community was the black church.
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True
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Middle-class black women established women's clubs to help the aged and infirm in their communities and to combat racism.
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True
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During the Gilded Age,
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Congress was evenly divided between the two major parties.
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The only major national issue that clearly and consistently divided Democrats from Republicans was
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tariff policy.
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The Democratic party generally consisted of
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southern whites, immigrants, and political outsiders.
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The liberals in the Republican party in 1884 who could not support their candidate for president, James Blaine, were named
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Mugwumps
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The Stalwarts in the Republican party strongly supported
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Radical Reconstruction.
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In the election of 1888, the central issue was
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the tariff.
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Between 1866 and 1895, the only president assassinated was
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James A. Garfield.
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In Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
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individual states could not regulate railroad rates.
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All of the following are correct about the Sherman Anti-Trust Act except that it
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set up the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
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worried eastern business and financial groups.
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The basic problem of farmers in the late nineteenth century was
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overproduction of agricultural products and the subsequent decline in commodity prices.
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"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns," said
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William Jennings Bryan.
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The rise of racial segregation in the South led to
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the development of a separate black culture.
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"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress," said
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Booker T. Washington.
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A program of "ceaseless agitation" for blacks was advocated by
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W. E. B. Du Bois.
