Chapter 23 Flashcards
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
D
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.
E
A major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was
a.
the issuance of millions of dollars in greenbacks.
b.
the expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets would bear.
c.
a credit crunch caused by extremely high interest rates.
d.
Wall Street’s fears about the power of the radical Greenback Labor party.
e.
excessive speculation in mining stocks.
B
As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873, debtors strongly advocated
a.
a return to gold as the only form of American money.
b.
establishment of a federally regulated system of savings and loan banks.
c.
the appointment of farmers and workers to the Treasury Department.
d.
rapid growth in federal expenditures on public works.
e.
inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency.
E
One result of Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s was
a.
the rise of the American dollar against foreign currencies.
b.
damage to the country’s credit rating.
c.
the return to the silver “Dollar of Our Daddies” as the dominant form of U.S. money.
d.
the defeat of a Democratic House of Representatives in 1874.
e.
a political turn to the Democrats and new Greenback Labor party.
E
The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in
a.
the small towns of the Northeast and the South.
b.
big business and those involved in international trade.
c.
Midwestern farmers.
d.
the white South and big-city immigrant machines.
e.
northern blacks and Asian immigrants.
D
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
a.
a renewal of the Republican commitment to protect black civil rights in the South.
b.
the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South.
c.
the election of a Democrat to the presidency.
d.
Republican support for an inflationary silver-money policy.
e.
a plan to build the first transcontinental railroad.
B
All of the following are true statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1875 except
a.
it marked a last gasp of the congressional radical Republicans.
b.
it was supposed to guarantee equal rights in voting and access to education for blacks and whites.
c.
its purpose was to ensure equal accommodations in public places.
d.
it prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection.
e.
much of its content was deemed unconstitutional in the Civil Rights cases of 1883.
B
In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
a.
African Americans could be denied the right to vote.
b.
segregation was unconstitutional.
c.
“separate but equal” facilities were constitutional.
d.
the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to African Americans.
e.
literacy tests for voting were constitutional.
C
The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
a.
found only in the North.
b.
called Jim Crow laws.
c.
overturned by Plessy v. Ferguson.
d.
undermined by the crop lien system.
e.
passed during Reconstruction.
B
Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were
a.
retaliation for violent crimes against whites.
b.
designed to intimidate African Americans to accept second-class status.
c.
done to scare blacks into moving out of the South.
d.
a way to force blacks back into slave-like labor.
e.
All of these
B
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after Reconstruction?
a.
As sharecroppers, blacks found themselves at the mercy of former masters who were now their landlords and creditors.
b.
Some merchants manipulated the system so that farmers remained perpetually in debt to them.
c.
Black sharecroppers often lived in conditions scarcely better than when they were slaves.
d.
White southerners did not work as sharecroppers.
e.
Sharecroppers barely scraped by economically.
D
The national railroad strike of 1877 started when
a.
President Hayes refused to use troops to keep the trains running.
b.
the four largest railroads cut salaries by 10 percent.
c.
working hours were cut back by the railroad companies.
d.
the railroad workers refused to cross the picket lines of cargo loaders.
e.
the railroads tried to hire Chinese workers.
B
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
a.
negotiated a restricted-immigration agreement with China.
b.
did nothing, as it was California’s problem.
c.
banned the Kearneyites in San Francisco.
d.
sent many Chinese back to their homeland.
e.
passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.
E
One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to
a.
dig for gold.
b.
work on the East Coast.
c.
replace the newly freed slaves in the South.
d.
buy their own farms.
e.
All of these
A
