Chapter 23&24 Flashcards
Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader
William Jennings Bryan.
One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was
sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties.
During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both Democratic and the Republican parties was
political patronage
President James A. Garfield was assassinated
by a deranged, disappointed office seeker.
Which of the following was not among the groups that formed the solid political base of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century?
Northern big cities
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South.
President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of
borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan’s banking syndicate.
The Credit Mobilier scandal involved
railroad construction kickbacks.
The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the mid-term Congressional elections of 1894 were the
Republicans
In religious and cultural terms, the Republicans appealed especially to groups that derived their views from the
Puritan tradition of strict moral codes and government regulation of morality and society.
President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because
the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the eccentric editor Horace Greenly as their candidate
The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to
take a competitive examination.
A major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 were
the expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets would bear.
The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was
tariff policy
At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using
all of these
As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873, debtors strongly advocated
inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency.
Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist party in their convention in 1892?
government guarantees of parity prices for farmers
Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when
the last federal troops were removed in 1877.
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States congress
passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.
The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in
the white South and big-city immigrant machines.
The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
The conservative white Bourbon Democrats of the South largely succeeded in crushing the Populist revolt by
appealing to poor white farmers’ anti-black racial feelings against their economic interests.
The nation railroad strike of 1877 started when
the four largest railroads cut salaries by ten percent.
In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by “waving the bloody shirt” were reminding voters
that the Republican party had fought and won the Civil War.
The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
called Jim Crow laws.
With the passage of the Pendleton Act, prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from
big corporations
New York’s notoriously corrupt Boss Tweed was finally jailed under the pressure of
New York Times exposes and the cartoons of Thomas Nast.
