Check Your Understanding- Chapter 23 Flashcards

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The primary political base of the Democratic Party

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included wealthy easterners, poorer Midwesterners, and Debt-burdened agrarians.

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

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the journalistic exposés of The New York Times and cartoonist Thomas Nast

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The Democrats’ nomination of Horace Greeley as their presidential candidate in 1872 was politically disastrous because

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Greeley had spent many years denouncing Democrats as morally deficient slave traders and traitors.

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The depression that began with the panic of 1873 created the first major clamor for

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inflationary policies to be promoted by issuing greenbacks and other forms of soft money.

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During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans

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had few significant policy differences.

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One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor between the Democrats and the Republicans of the Gilded Age was

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sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties.

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The assassination of President James Garfield by a disappointed office seeker

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created the impetus to establish the first civil service system for federal employees.

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All of the following were true of the Election of 1884 except

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Cleveland chose to “lie like a gentleman” about his illegitimate son

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Blaine lost the election of 1884 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

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Cleveland had been involved in an amorous affair with a Buffalo widow, who had an illegitimate son, for whom Cleveland had made financial provision.

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Grover Cleveland stirred political opposition by

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vetoing many veterans’ pension bills.

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Grover Cleveland proposed to address the problem of the large federal budget surplus by

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lowering the tariff

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Benjamin Harrison’s victory over Grover Cleveland in the election of 1888 was unusual in that

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Harrison lost the popular vote to Cleveland but won in the Electoral College.

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The Billion-Dollar Congress quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by

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expanding pensions for Civil War veterans and increasing federal government purchases of silver.

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The tariff bill, sponsored by the talented Congressman William McKinley of Ohio,

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increased substantially tariff rates on imported manufactured goods, stirring rural political discontent.

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In its first years, the Populist Party advocated, among other things

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

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