APUSH Gilded Age overview quiz

Question 1

Financiers Jim Fisk and Jay Gould tried to involve the Grant administration in a corrupt scheme to do what?

Answer 1

corner the gold market

Question 2

Boss Tweed’s widespread corruption was finally brought to a halt by what?

Answer 2

journalisic exposes of the NY times and cartoonist Thomas Nast

Question 3

What did the Credit Mobilier scandal involve?

Answer 3

Railroad corporation fraud and the subseuent bribery of congressmen

Question 4

Grants greatest failing in the scandals that plagued his administration was what?

Answer 4

his tolertion of corruption and his loyality to crooked friends

Question 5

The depression of the 1870s led to incerading demands for what?

Answer 5

Inflation fo the money supply by issuing more paper or silver currancy

Question 6

The political system for the Gilded Age was gnerally characterized by what?

Answer 6

strong party, loyalties, high voter turnout, and few disagreements on national issues

Question 7

The primary goal for which all factions in both political parties contended during the Gilded Age was what?

Answer 7

patronage

Question 8

The key tradeoff featured in the Compromise of 1877 was what?

Answer 8

Republicans got the presidency in exchange for the final removal of federal troops from the south

Question 9

What is the other word for patronage?

Answer 9

spoils systems

Question 10

Which of the following was not among the changes that affected blacks in the south after federal troops were withdrawn in the Compromise of 1877?

Answer 10

The forced relocation of black farmers to the KS and OK “dust”

Question 11

The supreme court’s ruling in Plessy v Ferguson upholding “seperate but equal” public facilities in effect legalized what?

Answer 11

the system of unequal segregation between races

Question 12

The great railroad strike of 1877 revealed what?

Answer 12

the growing threat of class warfare in response to the economic depression of the mid 1870s

Question 13

The final result of the widespread anti-Chinese agitation in the West was what?

Answer 13

a Congresional law to prohibit any further Chinese immigration

Question 14

Who was James Garfield assassinated by?

Answer 14

a mentally unstable disappointed office seeker

Question 15

In the first years, the populist party advocated, among other things, what?

Answer 15

free silver
graduated income tax
government ownership of the railroads, telegraph, and telephone

Question 16

Grover Cleveland stirred a furious storm of protest when, in response to the extreme financial crisis of the 1890s, he did what?

Answer 16

borrowed $65 million from JP Morgan and other bankers in order to save the monetary gold standard

Question 17

What is the symbol of the Republican political tactic of attacking Democrats with reminders of hte Civil War?

Answer 17

waving bloody shirt

Question 18

What was the corrupt construction company whose bribes and payoffs to congressmen and others created a major Grant administraion scandal?

Answer 18

Credit Mobilier

Question 19

What was the short lived third party of 1872 that attempted to curb Grant administration corruption?

Answer 19

Liberal Republican

Question 20

What was the precious metal that soft money advocates demanded be coined again to compensate for the “Crime of 73”?

Answer 20

Silver

Question 21

What was the soft money third party that polled over a million votes and elected four congressmen in 1878 by advocating inflation?

Answer 21

Greenback labor party

Question 22

What did Mark Twain sarcstic name for the post civil war era, which emphasized its atmoshere of greed and corruption?

Answer 22

Gilded Age

Question 23

What was hte name of hte civil war Union vetrens organization that became a potent political bulwark of the Republican party in the late 19th century?

Answer 23

Grand Army of the Republic

Question 24

What is the republican party faction led by senator roscoe conkling that opposed all attempts at civil-service reform?

Answer 24

Stalwart

Question 25

What republican party faction led by Senator James Blaine that paid lip service to government reform while still battling for patronage and spoils?

Answer 25

halfbreeds

Question 26

What was the complex political agreement between R/D that resolved the bitterly disputed election of 1876?

Answer 26

Compromise of 1877

Question 27

What Asian immigrant group that experienced discrimmination on the west coast?

Answer 27

Chinese

Question 28

What was the system for choosing federal employees on the basis of merit rather than patronage introduced by the Pendleton Act of 1883?

Answer 28

Civil Service Commision

Question 29

What was the sky high Republican tariff of 1890 that caused widespread anger among farmers in the Midwest and the South?

Answer 29

McKinley Tariff Act

Question 30

What is the insurgent political party that gained widespread support among farmers in the 1890s?

Answer 30

Populist Party

Question 31

What was the notorious clause in southern voting laws tht exempted from literacy tests and poll taxes anyone whose ancestors had voted in 1860, therefore, excluding blacks?

Answer 31

grandfather clause

Question 32

What was the effect of favor seeking business people and corrupt politicians?

Answer 32

Caused numerous scandals during President Grants administration

Question 33

What was the effect of The NY TImes and cartoonist Thomas Nast?

Answer 33

Forced Boss Tweed out of power and into jail

Question 34

What was the effect of upright Republicans disgust with Grant administration scandals?

Answer 34

Led to the formtion of the Liberal Republican party in 1872

Question 35

What was the effect of the economic crash of hte mid 1870s?

Answer 35

Caused unemployment, railroad strikes, and a demand for cheap money

Question 36

What was the effect of Local, cultural, moral, and religious differences?

Answer 36

Creted fierce partisan competition and high voters turnouts, even though the parties agreed on most national issues

Question 37

What was the effect of the COmpromise of 1877 that settled the dispute Hayes Tilden election?

Answer 37

Led to the withdrawal of troops from the south and the virtual end of federal efforts to protect black rights there

Question 38

What was the effect of White workers resentment of Chinese labor competition?

Answer 38

Caused anti Chinese violence and restricitons against Chinese immigration

Question 39

What was the effect of the public shock at Garfield’s assassination by Guiteau?

Answer 39

Helped ensure passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 40

What was the effect of the 1890s depression and the drain of gold from the federal treasury?

Answer 40

Induced Grover Cleveland to negotiate a secrete loan from JP Morgan’s banking syndicate

Question 41

What was the effect of the inability of Populist leaders to overcome divisions between white and black farmers?

Answer 41

Led to failure of the third party revolt in the south and a growing racial blacklash