APUSH Ch. 23 Multiple Choice (official) – Flashcards
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At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant
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D) accepted gifts of house and money from citizen
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2. In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
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B) Owed his victory to the votes of former slaves
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3. As a result of the Civil War,
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E) waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of the Rupublic
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4. In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by, "waving the bloody shirt," were reminding voters
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A) of the "treason" of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War
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5. Which one of the following ideas is least related to the other three?
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D) "Ohio Idea"
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6. 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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A) the cartoons of the political satirist Thomas Nast.
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7. The Credit Mobilier scandal involved
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C) railroad construction kickbacks.
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8. In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings. the owners of Credit Mobilizer
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E) distributed shares of the company's valuable stock to key congressmen.
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9. President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because
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D) his opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency.
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10. Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated. A. Roscoe Conkling B. James Blaine C. Horace Greeley D. Ulysses Grant 1. "Half-Breeds" 2. Stalwarts 3. Regular Republicans 4. Liberal Republicans
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D) A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
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11. One cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was
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B) the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear.
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12. As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested
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E) inflationary policies
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13. One result of Republican "hard money" policies was
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E) the formation of the Greenback Labor party.
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14. Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usually
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C) party loyalists.
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15. During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans
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A) had few significant economic differences.
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16. The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s
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E) aroused great interest among voters.
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17. One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was
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B) sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties
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18. During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was
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E) political patronage.
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19. "Spoilsmen" was the label attached to those who
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A) expected government jobs from their party's elected officeholders.
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20. The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
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B) the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
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21. The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
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B) the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
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22. The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two non-consecutive terms) was
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D) Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland
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23. In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
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C) "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.
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24. At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans with
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E) all of the above
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25. The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
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B) called Jim Crow laws.
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26. The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes opened with
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C) scenes of class warfare.
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27. The railroad strike of 1877 started when
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B) the four largest railroads cut salaries by ten percent.
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28. Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from
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C) the collapse of the steel industry.
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29. Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in
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C) the use of federal troops during strikes.
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30. In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
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E) passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.
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31. Which of the following internal developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States?
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E) all of the above
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32. One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to
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A) dig for gold.
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33. The Chinese word tong means
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B) meeting hall.
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34. Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the second was
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E) James Garfield
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35. President James A. Garfield was assassinated
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D) by a deranged, disappointed office seeker.
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36. The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to
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A) take a competitive examination.
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37. With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now sought money from
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E) big corporations.
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38. The 1884 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for
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C) its personal attacks on the two candidates.
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39. Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a different party affiliation from the other four?
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C) Grover Cleveland
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40. When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support of
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E) businesspeople
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41. On the issue of the tariff, President Grover Cleveland
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B) advocated a lower rate.
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42. The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was
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E) tariff policy.
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43. In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true that the focus of political power was
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A) Congress.
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44. The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by
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C) expanding pensions for Civil War veterans.
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45. Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist Party in their convention of 1892?
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D) government guarantees of "parity prices" for farmers
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46. The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were
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E) Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada.
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47. The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in
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A) a racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South.
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48. The political developments of the 1890s were largely shaped by
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C) the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time.
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49. Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader
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B) William Jennings Bryan.
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50. President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of
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D) borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate.
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51. The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 were
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A) the republicans