APUSH Chapter 23 mc – Flashcards
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In the aftermath of the Civil War?
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waste, speculation, and corruption afflicted both business and government
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New York's notoriously corrupt Boss Tweed was finally jailed under the pressure of?
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New York Times exposes and the cartoons of Thomas Nast
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The Credit Moblier 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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the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the eccentric editor Horace Greely as their candidate
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A major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was?
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the expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets could bear
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During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and Republicans?
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had few significant policy differences
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The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s?
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aroused enormous turnouts among voters even though there were few significant issues
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During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and 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 and abandonment of black rights in 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 using?
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all of these
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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 during the Hayes administration stemmed from?
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years of depression and deflation that undermined workers' living standards
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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 US Congress?
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passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America
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The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to?
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take a competitive examination
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With the passage of the Pendleton Act, prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from?
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big corporations
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When he was president, Grover Cleveland's strong belief in a hand's off approach to government gained the support of?
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businesspeople
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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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President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of?
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borrowing 65 million in gold from JP Morgan's banking syndicate
