Ch 23 Flashcards
Politicians who “waved the bloody shirt” were reminding voters
A. of the “treason” of the Democrats during the Civil War
B. that the election of a Republican had started the Civil War
C. of the need for the new “Grant-care:” health insurance reforms
D. of the perils of graft-fillled politics
A. of the “treason” of the Democrats during the Civil War
The two Grant Administrations were most marked by/noted for
A. Advancing Reconstruction
B. Passing the 15th Amendment
C. Rampant corruption
D. Grant’s VP, Horace Greeley
C. Rampant corruption
The best-known figure of “machine politics” in the Gilded Age was
A. Thomas Nast
B. “Boss” Tweed
C. James G. Blaine
D. Chauncey DePew
B. “Boss” Tweed
Mark Twain provided a label for the era, hinting at politicians’ thin layer of “shininess” - and corruption below it. He coined the term:
A. Iron Age
B. Gilded Age
C. Era of Good Stealings
D. Progressive Era
B. Gilded Age
It was the title of a book that Twain wrote with Charles Dudley Warner, and the novel depicted plenty of corruption, graft, and other problems observed in the era.
To be an advocate of “hard money” meant to be in favor of
A. Graft
B. A federal income tax
C. Greenbacks
D. The gold standard
D. The gold standard
T/F
Many, particularly farmers, hoped to avoid a money crunch by including more gold in the backing of the dollar.
False
This “lifeblood of American politics” in the era was an essential part of the “spoils system,” and a common cause of bribery and other political shenanigans.
A. Crop-lien system
B. Hard money
C. Graft
D. Patronage
D. Patronage
Graft (bribery or buying, selling with insider information) was often a part of persuading someone to appoint a person to office or to give them a government contract - patronage.
The major problem of the 1876 Presidential election centered around
A. Who would be the next Speaker of the House
B. Who would be the next President
C. Grant’s try for a third term
D. Tilden’s controversial plan to annex Cuba
B. Who would be the next President
Those votes would determine whether the next President was a Democrat or Republican - with the federal jobs they could bring with them.
The group most affected by the Compromise of 1877 was
A. Freedmen in the South
B. Members of the GAR
C. Labor in the North
D. The Chinese in the West
A. Freedmen in the South
Federal troops were withdrawn from the South - the protection the freedmen had against violence.
Laws that established segregation were
A. Primarily in the North
B. Termed Jim Crow laws
C. Overturned by Plessey v. Ferguson
D. Undermined by the joint-stock system
B. Termed Jim Crow laws
Also called “black codes”
Other than laws for segregation, another powerful means of preserving Jim Crow was killing alleged criminals to “send a message.” This means was
A. Sharecropping
B. Lynching
C. Nativism
D. Kearneyism
B. Lynching
The first official restriction on immigration was on immigrants from
A. Mexico
B. Ireland
C. Canada
D. China
D. China
There was a huge anti-Chinese backlash in the late 1800s, due to many Chinese immigrants coming to build railroads, esp.
“Separate but equal” facilities were endorsed by
A. US v. Wong Kim
B. Yick Wo v. Hopkins
C. The Resumption Act of 1875
D. Plessy v. Ferguson
D. Plessy v. Ferguson
Assassination of this President unexpectedly encouraged political reform:
A. Cleveland
B. Garfield
C. Grant
D. Hayes
B. Garfield
Supposedly, this was the political party of “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion”
A. Populist
B. Republican
C. Democrat
D. Greenback
C. Democrat
The only Democrat elected President (twice) in the era
Grover Cleveland
President elected as a result of the Compromise of 1877:
Rutherford B. Hayes
