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How did citizens help Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the end of the Civil War?
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gifts of houses and money from citizens
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What happened to the moral structure of the Republic as a result of the Civil War?
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waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft
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What important weapon was used to put Boss Tweed in jail?
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the cartoons of the political satirist Thomas Nast
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What did the Crédit Mobilier scandal involve?
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railroad construction kickbacks
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Why was Pres. Grant reelected in 1872?
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his opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency
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What was one important cause of the panic that broke in 1873?
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the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear
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What did debtors suggest as a solution to the panic of 1873?
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inflationary policies
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What groups usually enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades?
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party loyalists
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During the Gilded Ages, how were the Democrats and Republicans similar?
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political patronage
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What conclusion can you draw about the presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s?
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aroused great interest among voters
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In the 19th century, what cultural values were associated with the Republican Party?
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What did the Compromise of 1877 result in?
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the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
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How did the Supreme Court rule in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
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"separate but equal" facilities were constitutional
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What ways did Southern whites disenfranchised African-Americans?
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literacy requirements, poll taxes, economic intimidation and grandfather clauses
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What were the legal codes that established the system of segregation?
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Jim Crow laws
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What caused labor unrest during the Hayes administration?
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the use of federal troops during strikes??
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What did Congress do in the wake of the anti-Chinese violence in California?
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passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America
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What was a major reason that the Chinese came to the U.S.?
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dig for gold
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What did Pendleton Act require appointees to do for public office jobs?
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take a competitive examination
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Why was the 1884 campaign between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland notable?
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its personal attacks on the two candidates
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What group liked Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to gov't?
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business people
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Regarding tariffs, what did Pres. Cleveland support?
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advocated a lower rate
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In the latter decades of the 19th century, where was the locus of political power?
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Congress
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How did the "Billion Dollar Congress" quickly dispose of rising gov't surpluses?
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expanding pensions for Civil War veterans
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Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the second was
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James Garfield.
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President James A. Garfield was assassinated by a deranged,
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disappointed office seeker.
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With the passage of the Pendleton Act,
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politicians now sought money from big corporations.
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Grover Cleveland
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had a different political affiliation than other Gilded Age presidents.
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The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was
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tariff policy
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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 a racist backlash that
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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
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the rise of the pro-silver leader William Jennings Bryan.
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President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by
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his action of borrowing $65 million in gold from 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.
