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At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant accepted gifts of

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houses and money from citizens

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In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant owed his victory to the votes of

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former slaves

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As a result of the Civil War, waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of

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the Republic

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In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters of the

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"treason" of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War

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Jim Fisk is least related to; "Black Friday", Jay Gould, "Ohio Idea" and

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Wall Street gold market

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

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the cartoons of the political satirist Thomas Nast

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The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved

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railroad construction kickbacks

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In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of Crédit Mobilizer distributed shares of the company's valuable stock to

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key congressmen

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President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because

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his opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency

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Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated. 1. Roscoe Conkling- _______ 2. James Blaine- ________ 3. Horace Greeley- _______ 4. Ulysses Grant- ________

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1. Stalwarts 2. "Half-Breeds" 3. Liberal Republicans 4. Regular Republicans

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One cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was the construction of

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more factories than existing markets would bear.

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As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested what?

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inflationary policies.

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One result of Republican "hard money" policies was the formation of

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the Greenback Labor party.

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Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usually

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party loyalists.

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During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans had few significant

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economic differences

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The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s aroused great interest among

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voters

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One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was

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sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties.

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During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was

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political patronage

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"Spoilsmen" was the label attached to those who expected government jobs from

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their party's elected officeholders.

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The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on the two sets of election returns submitted by

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Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.

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The Compromise of 1877 resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the

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South

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The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) was

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Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland.

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In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were

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constitutional

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At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African-Americans with

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literacy requirements, poll taxes, economic intimidation and grandfather clauses.

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The legal codes that established the system of segregation were called

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Jim Crow Laws

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The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes opened with scenes of

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class warfare

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The railroad of 1877 started when the four largest railroads cut salaries by

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10%

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Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from the

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collapse of the steel industry.

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Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in the use of federal troops during

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strikes

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In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to

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America

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The following were internal developments in China, that led to Chinese immigration into the United States:

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the disintegration of the Chinese Empire, the seizure of farmland by landlords, the intrusion of European powers and internal political turmoil.

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One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to

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dig for gold

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The Chinese word tong means

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meeting hall

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_______ was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the second was _______

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-Abraham Lincoln -James Garfield

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President James A. Garfield was assassinated by

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a deranged, disappointed office seeker.

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The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to take a

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competitive examination.

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With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now sought money from

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big corporations.

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The 1884 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for its

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personal attacks on the two candidates.

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Grover Cleveland had a different political affiliation than

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other Gilded Age presidents.

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When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support of

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business people

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On the issue of the tariff, President Grover Cleveland advocated a

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lower rate

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The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was

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tariff policy.

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The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by expanding pensions for

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Civil War veterans.

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Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist Party in their convention of 1892?

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Government guarantees of "parity prices" for farmers

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The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were

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Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada.

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The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in

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a racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South.

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The political developments of the l890s were largely shaped by

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the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time.

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Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of

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the pro-silver leader William Jennings Bryan.

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In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true that

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the locus of political power was Congress.

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President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of borrowing $65 million in gold from

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J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate.

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The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 was

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the Republicans.

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