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APUSH Gilded Age overview quiz Flashcards

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

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corner the gold market

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

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journalisic exposes of the NY times and cartoonist Thomas Nast

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What did the Credit Mobilier scandal involve?

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Railroad corporation fraud and the subseuent bribery of congressmen

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

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his tolertion of corruption and his loyality to crooked friends

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

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

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

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

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

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patronage

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

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

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What is the other word for patronage?

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spoils systems

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Which of the following was not among the changes that affected blacks in the south after federal troops were withdrawn in the Compromise of 1877?

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

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

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the system of unequal segregation between races

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The great railroad strike of 1877 revealed what?

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

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

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a Congresional law to prohibit any further Chinese immigration

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Who was James Garfield assassinated by?

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a mentally unstable disappointed office seeker

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

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

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

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

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

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waving bloody shirt

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

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Credit Mobilier

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

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Liberal Republican

20
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What was the precious metal that soft money advocates demanded be coined again to compensate for the “Crime of 73”?

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Silver

21
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What was the soft money third party that polled over a million votes and elected four congressmen in 1878 by advocating inflation?

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Greenback labor party

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

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Gilded Age

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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?

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Grand Army of the Republic

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

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Stalwart

25
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What republican party faction led by Senator James Blaine that paid lip service to government reform while still battling for patronage and spoils?

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halfbreeds

26
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What was the complex political agreement between R/D that resolved the bitterly disputed election of 1876?

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Compromise of 1877

27
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What Asian immigrant group that experienced discrimmination on the west coast?

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Chinese

28
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What was the system for choosing federal employees on the basis of merit rather than patronage introduced by the Pendleton Act of 1883?

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Civil Service Commision

29
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What was the sky high Republican tariff of 1890 that caused widespread anger among farmers in the Midwest and the South?

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McKinley Tariff Act

30
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What is the insurgent political party that gained widespread support among farmers in the 1890s?

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Populist Party

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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?

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grandfather clause

32
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What was the effect of favor seeking business people and corrupt politicians?

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Caused numerous scandals during President Grants administration

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

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Forced Boss Tweed out of power and into jail

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

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Led to the formtion of the Liberal Republican party in 1872

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Caused anti Chinese violence and restricitons against Chinese immigration

39
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What was the effect of the public shock at Garfield’s assassination by Guiteau?

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Helped ensure passage of the Pendleton Act

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

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

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

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

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