Chapter 23 Apush Answers – Flashcards
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In the presidential election of 1869, Ulysses S. Grant
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Owed his victory to the voters of former slaves
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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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In the late 19th century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters
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Of the treason of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil war
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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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In attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of Credit Moblieir
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Distributed shares of the companies valuable stock to key congressmen
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As a solution to the panic of depression of 1873 debtors suggested
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Inflationary policies
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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 and big city political machined
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Spoilsmen was the label attached to those who
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Expected government jobs their party's elected officeholders
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The major problem in the 1876 centered on
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the two sets if election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina and Lousiana
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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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The sequence of the presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age ( including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) was
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Hayes, Garfield, Arthur. Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland
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In the 1896 case of Plessy vs 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 disenfranchises African Americans with
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Literacy requirements poll taxes economic intimidations grandfather clauses
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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 1870's and 1880's resulted in
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The uses 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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What internal developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States
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The disintegration of the Chinese Empire The seizure of farmland by landlords The intrusion of European powers Internal political above
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Abraham Lincoln was the first presidential to be assassinated while in office , second was
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James Garfield
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President James A. Garfield was assissinated
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By a deranged. disappointed office seeker
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The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to
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Agree to make financial contributions to their political party
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With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicans now sought money from
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Big Corporations
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Which of the following Gilded Age presidents had a different party affiliations from the other four?
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Cleveland-Democratic Others Republican
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When he was president, Grover Cleveland's hands off approach to government gained support of
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Business people
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On the issue of the tariff, President Grover Cleveland
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Advocated a lower rate
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The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was
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Tariff
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The billion Dollar Congress quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by
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Providing subsidies to wheat, corn, and cotton farmers
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The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in
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A racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South
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Most presidents of the 1870's and 1880's
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Were republicans supported protective tariffs Won narrow victories
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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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What did most of the barons do during the Gilded Age?
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Build their railroads with government assisstance
