Chapter 23

Question 0

At the conclusion of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant….

A.) Refused gifts offered him by the American public

B.) proved that he was a sound judge of human character

C.) rejoined the Democratic Party

D.) accepted gift of houses in money from citizens

E.) ruled out running for office

Answer 0

D

Question 1

In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant…

A.) transformed his personal popularity into a large majority in the popular vote

B.) owed his victory to the votes of former slaves

C.) gained his victory by winning the votes of the majority of whites

D.) demonstrated his political skill

E.) all of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The Credit Mobilier scandal involved…

A.) public utility company bribes

B.) bureaus of Indian affairs payoffs

C.) Railroad construction kickbacks

D.) evasion of excise taxes on distilled liquors

Answer 2

C

Question 3

As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested…

A.) A policy of deflation

B.) A passage of the resumption act of 1875

C.) stronger federal courts of banking

D.) restoring the government’s credit rating

E.) inflationary policies

Answer 3

E

Question 4

During the gilded age, the Democrats and Republicans…

A.) had few significant economic differences

B.) agreed on currency policy but not the tariff

C.) were separated by substantial differences in economic policy

D.) held similar views on all economic issues except civil service reform’s

E.) where divided over silver vs. gold currency

Answer 4

A

Question 5

With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now side money from…

A.) New immigrants

B.) civil service workers

C.) The small army of factory workers whom they now had to mobilize

D.) foreign contributors

E.) big corporations

Answer 5

E

Question 6

On the issue of tariff, President Grover Cleveland…

A.) supported high rates

B.) advocated for a lower tariff

C.) have no opinion

D.) followed the advice of his party

E.) favored tariffs on agricultural products

Answer 6

B

Question 7

The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was…

A.) civil-service reform

B.) The big trust question

C.) The currency issue

D.) foreign-policy

E.) Tariff policy

Answer 7

E

Question 8

In the later decades of the 19th century, it was generally true that the focus of political power was…

A.) Congress

B.) The president

C.) The federal courts

D.) The federal bureaucracy

E.) The states

Answer 8

A

Question 9

Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist party in their convention of 1892?

A.) Government ownership of the railroads, telephone, and telegraph

B.) free and unlimited coinage of silver in the ratio of 16 to 1

C.) A one term limit on the presidency

D.) Government guarantees of parity prices for farmers

E.) immigration restrictions

Answer 9

D

Question 10

Abraham Lincoln was the first president assassinated while in office the second was…

A.) Rutherford B. Hayes

B.) William McKinley

C.) Chester Arthur

D.) Benjamin Harrison

E.) James Garfield

Answer 10

E

Question 11

President James A. Garfield was assassinated…

A.) as a result of his service in the Civil War

B.) because he was a stalwart Republican

C.) because he opposed civil-service reform

D.) by a deranged disappointed office seeker

E.) by political analyst

Answer 11

D

Question 12

One of the main reasons a Chinese came to the US 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 the above

Answer 12

A

Question 13

The legal codes that established a system of segregation were…

A.) found only in the north

B.) called Jim Crow laws

C.) overturned by Plessy vs. Ferguson

D.) undermined by the crop lien system

E.) passed during Reconstruction

Answer 13

B

Question 14

The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the congressional elections of 1894 were…

A.) The Republicans

B.) The populists

C.) The goldbug Democrats

D.) The greenback Labor Party

E.) The Knights of labor

Answer 14

A

Question 15

Despite his status as a military hero, Gen. Ulysses S Grant proved to be a week political leader because he

A.) was personally honest and corrupt

B.) did not believe in the principles of the Republican Party

C.) was unstable to get others to follow his lead

D.) had no political experience and was a poor judge of character

E.) lacked political ambition

Answer 15

D

Question 16

Which political emotion motivated the liberal Republican revolt from the regular Republican Party in 1872?

A.) dismay at the Republicans weakness in upholding radical reconstruction in the south

B.) nostalgia for leadership like that of the martyred Abraham Lincoln

C.) disgust at the corruption scandals of the grant ministration

D.) A fervent passion for reforms on behalf of women and blacks

E.) I desire to strengthen the federal government regulation of big business

Answer 16

C

Question 17

All of the following were causes of the panic that broke in 1873 in United States except…

A.) a ripple effect from similar, simultaneous economic panics in Europe and the world

B.) The expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets would bear

C.) bank failures resulting from imprudent financial loans made by bankers in support of questionable business ventures

D.) The loss of substantial financial investments by speculators in dubious and unsustainable business ventures

E.) Wall Street’s fear about the power of the radical greenback party

Answer 17

E

Question 18

What was a key result of the Republican Hard Money policies in the mid-1870s?

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 US money

D.) The defeat of a Democratic House of Representatives in 1874

E.) A political turn to the Democrats and the new greenback Labour Party

Answer 18

E

Question 19

Which development was a critical reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age?

A.) The radical idea logical differences between Democratic and Republican parties

B.) Sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the Democratic and Republican parties

C.) religious conflict between Catholics and mainline Protestants

D.) political differences over the policy issue of civil service

E.) sectional tensions among the north east and Midwest and South

Answer 19

B

Question 20

All of the following were among the groups that form the solid political base of the Republican Party in the late 19 century except…

A.) Northern big cities

B.) Union Civil War veterans of the grand Army of the Republic

C.) Southern black freedmen

D.) The Midwest

E.) The rural and small town Midwest

Answer 20

A

Question 21

What political development resulted from the compromise of 1877?

A.) A renewal of 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

Answer 21

B

Question 22

At the end of reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African-Americans using all of the following strategies except…

A.) literacy requirements

B.) poll taxes

C.) economic intimidation

D.) lynching

E.) The use of federal troops to discourage African-Americans from voting in elections

Answer 22

E

Question 23

Which of the following was not a cause of labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s?

A.) agitation by communist sympathizers

B.) reductions in wages by railroad owners and other industrial employers

C.) competition of cheap labor from recently arrived immigrants from China

D.) conflict between ethnic groups for unskilled jobs

E.) years of depression and deflation that undermined workers’ living standards

Answer 23

A

Question 24

All of the following internal developments during the late 19 century in China resulted in Chinese immigration to United States except…

A.) The dis-integration of the Chinese empire

B.) severe land shortages

C.) The intrusion of European powers

D.) The nationalist communist civil war

E.) Limited economic opportunity and political turmoil

Answer 24

D

Question 25

With the passage of the Pendleton Act, prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from…

A.) Labor unions

B.) farmers and agrarian associations

C.) foreign contributors

D.) contractors doing business with the federal government

E.) large corporations

Answer 25

D

Question 26

Grover Cleveland argued for a lower tariff for all of the following reasons except…

A.) The failure of high tariffs to raise revenues

B.) lower prices for consumers

C.) less protection for monopolies

D.) The end of the treasury surplus

E.) The need for smaller government

Answer 26

A

Question 27

How did the billion-dollar Congress quickly dispose of rising Government surpluses?

A.) it provided subsidies to wheat, corn and cotton farmers

B.) it built an expensive new steel navy

C.) it expanded pensions for Civil War veterans

D.) it cut tariffs and other taxes

E.) it increased spending on railroads and other transportation projects

Answer 27

C

Question 28

Pres. Cleveland’s response to the depression of the 1890s demonstrated that he…

A.) was able to work effectively with J.P. Morgan to address the problems of unemployment

B.) understood the problems of urban workers better than those of farmers

C.) had a weak grasp of the economic theory that lay behind the demand for free silver

D.) was unable to deal effectively with such a massive crisis

E.) was able to skillfully incorporate some populace proposals into the Democratic Party

Answer 28

D