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despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he

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had no political experience and was a poor judge of character

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in the presidential election of 1868, Grant owed his victory

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to the votes of former slaves

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in the aftermath of the civil war

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waste speculation and corruption affected 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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the New York Times cartoonist thomas nast

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the credit mobiler scandal involved

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railroad construction kickbacks

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the liberal republican revolt from the regular Republican Party in 1872 was motivated primarily by

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disgust at the corruption and scandals of the grant administration

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grant was reelected in 1872 because

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the democrats and liberal republicans could not decide on a single candidate

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What republican political faction was roscoe cooling associated with

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stalwarts

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What republican political faction was james blane associated with

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half breeds

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What republican political faction was Horace greenly associated with

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liberal republicans

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What republican political faction was grant associated with

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regular republicans

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one result of republican hard money policies in the mid 1870s was

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a political turn to the democrats from the new green back labor party

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those who enjoyed a successful political carrier in the post civil war decades were usually

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party loyalists

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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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in religious and cultural terms the republicans appealed more too

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people who believed in the puritan tradition of strict moral codes and government regulation of morality and society

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one reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the guilded age was

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sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties

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this was not among the groups that formed the solid political base of the Republican Party in the late 19th century

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northern big cities

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the compromise of 1877 resulted in the

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withdrawal of federal troops and the abandonment of black rights in the south

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the sequence of presidential terms of the forgettable presidents of the guilded age was

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hayes Garfeild arthur cleveland harrison and cleveland

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in the 1869 case of plessy vs. ferguson the Supreme Court ruled that

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seperate but equal facilities were constitutional

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blacks who violated Jim Crow laws or other elements of the souths racial code were often subject to

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lynching

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the presidency of Hayes began with

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sharp class conflict and national railroad strike

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the fundamental attitude of hayes and other republican administrations toward labor agitation was

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strong support of the railroads and other business in their efforts to crush labor organizing

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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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one of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was too

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dig for gold

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the pendleton act required people applying for many federal jobs to

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take a competative examination

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in the election contest between blaine and Cleveland was noted for

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its viciously personal attacks between the two candidates

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when he was president grover cleveland's strong belief in a laissez faire approach to government gained support of the

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businesspeople

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Harrison's victory over Cleveland in the election of 1888 was unusual in that

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Harrison lost the popular vote but won in the electoral college

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the new tariff bill sponsored by the talented congressmen McKinley of Ohio, provided for

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sky high tariff rates that stirred rural discontent

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an epidemic of violent strikes and labor conflict in 1892 led to the prospect of

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the populist adding industrial workers to their base of support among farmers

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the conservative white bourbon democrats of the south largely succeeded in crushing the populist revolt by

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appealing to poor white farmers antiblack racial feelings against their economic interests

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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 back lash that eliminated black voting in the south

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the political developments of the 1890's 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 lead to the rise of the pro silver leader

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william jennings bryan

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president Cleveland's hostility to silver and silver backed currency was driven primarily by his fear that

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the growing drain of gold from the us treasury would force the United States off the gold standard

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president 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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Cleveland's response to the depression of the 1890s demonstrated that he

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was unable to deal effectively with such a massive economic crisis

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