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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

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