Deck 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Roscoe Conkling

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Grover Cleveland

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James A.Garfield

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Rutherford B.Hayes

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Nast

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Winfield Scott Hancock

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Denis Kearney

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Boss" Tweed

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ulysses S.Grant

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Chester A.Arthur

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jay Gould

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James G.Blaine

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles J.Guiteau

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jim Fisk

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Belknap

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Horace Greeley

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Benjamin Harrison

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Winfield S.Hancock

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Horatio Seymour

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Samuel Tilden

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Ohio Idea"

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James B.Weaver

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
crop-lien system

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
contraction

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
pork-barrel bills

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gilded Age

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
spoils system

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Adlai E.Stevenson

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
populism

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Jennings Bryan

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
the "bloody shirt"

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
hard/sound money

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Reed

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Black Friday

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Andrew Carnegie

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
grandfather clause

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tom Watson

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
J.P.Morgan

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William McKinley

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
soft/cheap money

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Plessy v.Ferguson

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Stalwart

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Redeemers"

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Whiskey Ring

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tweed Ring

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Civil Rights Cases

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mugwumps

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Half-Breed

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Compromise of 1877

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bland-Allison Act

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Civil Rights Act of 1875

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Crédit Mobilier

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jim Crow

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Greenback Labor party

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Crime of '73"

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Liberal Republicans

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pendleton Act

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 61

President Ulysses S.Grant was reelected in 1872 because

A) the Democrats and Liberal Republicans could not decide on a single candidate.
B) he promised reforms in the political system.
C) he was the only candidate who enjoyed support in both the North and South.
D) the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the eccentric editor Horace Greeley as their candidate.
E) of the massive support of black voters in the Reconstruction South.

Question 62

The Liberal Republican revolt from the regular Republican party in 1872 was motivated primarily by

A) dismay at the Republicans' weakness in upholding radical Reconstruction in the South.
B) nostalgia for leadership like that of the martyred Abraham Lincoln.
C) disgust at the corruption and scandals of the Grant administration.
D) a fervent passion for reforms on behalf of women and blacks.
E) a desire to strengthen the federal government's regulation of big business.

Question 63

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Mulligan letters"

Question 64

In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings,the owners of the Crédit Mobilizer

A) left the country.
B) belatedly started to follow honest business practices.
C) used shady bookkeeping to conceal their insider financial deals.
D) tried to gain immunity by testifying before Congress.
E) bribed key congressmen by giving them shares of the company's valuable stock.

Question 65

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Wilson-Gorman Tariff

Question 66

In the presidential election of 1868,Ulysses S.Grant

A) transformed his personal popularity into a large majority in the popular vote.
B) owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.
C) gained his victory by winning the votes of the majority of whites.
D) demonstrated his political skill.
E) All of these

Question 67

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
McKinley Tariff

Question 68

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
People's Party (Populists)

Question 69

New York's notoriously corrupt Boss Tweed was finally jailed under the pressure of

A) New York Times exposés and the cartoons of Thomas Nast.
B) federal income tax evasion charges.
C) the RICO racketeering act.
D) New York City's ethics laws.
E) testimony by Tweed's partners in crime.

Question 70

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Colored Farmers' National Alliance

Question 71

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Farmers' Alliance

Question 72

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Billion-Dollar Congress

Question 73

Which one of the following is least related to the other four?

A) Jim Fisk
B) "Black Friday"
C) Jay Gould
D) "Ohio Idea"
E) Wall Street gold market

Question 74

In the late nineteenth century,those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters

A) of the gory memories of the Civil War and the Republican party's role in the Union's victory.
B) that the Civil War had been caused by the election of a Republican president.
C) that Republicans had reformed the corrupt radical regimes in the Reconstruction South.
D) that radical Republicans catered to freed slaves during Reconstruction.
E) of Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks.

Question 75

In the aftermath of the Civil War

A) the population of the United States declined.
B) Americans retained a strong sense of idealistic sacrifice.
C) the North developed a strong sense of moral superiority.
D) concern for racial questions took precedence over economics.
E) waste, speculation, and corruption afflicted both business and government.

Question 76

The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved

A) public utility company bribes.
B) Bureau of Indian Affairs payoffs.
C) railroad construction kickbacks.
D) evasion of excise taxes on distilled liquor.
E) manipulating the Wall Street stock market.

Question 77

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Question 78

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

A) was personally dishonest and corrupt.
B) did not believe in the principles of the Republican party.
C) was unable to get others to follow his lead.
D) had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.
E) lacked political ambition

Question 79

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Rum,Romanism,and Rebellion"

Question 80

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
United States vs.Wong Kim Ark