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As a result of the Civil War,
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waste, extravagance, speculation and graft reduced the moral stature of the Republic
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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 Credit Mobilier scandal involved
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railroad construction kickbacks
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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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One cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was
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the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear
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During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans
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had few significant economic differences
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The presidential election of the 1870s and 1880s
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aroused great interest among voters
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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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The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
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the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
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In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
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separate but equal facilities were constitutional
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At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African-Americans with
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all of the above
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The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
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called Jim crow laws
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Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in
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the use of federal troops during strikes
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In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
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passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America
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The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to
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take a 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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When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support of
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businesspeople
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In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true that the locus of political power was
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Congress
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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 political developments of the 1890s were largely shaped by
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the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time
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President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of
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borrowing 65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate
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In the Gilded Age, "hard money" policies were reflected in
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the Resumption Act of 1875, the Crime of 73, and contraction
