Period 6 - Gilded Age

Question 1

What did Thomas Nast become famous for?

Answer 1

His political cartoons.

Question 2

What happened in the Credit Mobilier Scandal?

Who was implicated?

Answer 2

The careers of several politicians were damaged.

Question 3

Why was the Liberal Republican party formed?

Answer 3

The disgust with “Grantism” (any political corruption or greed in government) was built up in the nation

Question 4

What were the causes of the panic of 1873?

Answer 4

Jay Cooke and Company, a major financial company, shut its doors because it back railroad project and it was believed to be a bad sign. After Jay Cooke and Company closed so did many others

Question 5

What are the effects of the panic of 1873?

Answer 5

Chain reaction of closings and failures, factories began to lay off workers and the US began to slip into a depression

Question 6

What were The provisions of the compromise of 1877? What was the significance of the agreement?

Answer 6

Federal troops were to be withdrawn from the south, Southerners given jobs in the haze administration, and support would be given to the railroads in the south.
The significance of this agreement was that it sold and intensely disputed 1876 US presidential election

Question 7

What was the significance of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case Plessy vs. Ferguson?

Answer 7

The significance was that it validated the South’s segregationist social order

Question 8

What caused the great railroad strike of 1877? Why did it fail?

Answer 8

The great railroad strike was caused because the presidents of the four largest railroad companies decided to cut their wages it failed because president Hates sent federal troops and many workers on the strike were killed

Question 9

What were the provisions of the Chinese exclusion act? Why was it passed?

Answer 9

Prohibit all further immigration from China. It was past because the US was in the depression and at the same time the Chinese were taking wages and sending them back to China which made them easy targets

Question 10

What were the provisions of the Pendleton civil service act? Why was it past? What new problem did it create?

Answer 10

Compulsory campaign contributions illegal, established civil service commission. It forced politicians to look elsewhere for money

Question 11

According to Cleveland, what were the arguments in favor of lowering protective tariff rates? How did this position impact his bed for reelection in 1888?

Answer 11

Lower prices and less protection. It was voted out of chair

Question 12

How did the federal government facilitate the construction of the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 12

The federal government provided money and land to facilitate the completion of railroads

Question 13

What were the effects of the expansion of the railroad industry?

Answer 13

The rest of the Western front tier was quickly settled and a national economy was developed

Question 14

Why did the federal government force native American tribes onto reservations?

Answer 14

For Foreign land in to extend railroads

Question 15

What were the provisions of the Dawes severalty act of 1887?

Answer 15

Native American families were given 160 acres of land and US citizenship in exchange for a living separately from the tribe

Question 16

What was the purpose of the Carlisle Indian school?

Answer 16

Native American children were sent to this boarding school to transition into more European traditions

Question 17

What were the provisions of the Homestead act?

Answer 17

American families were given 160 acres of land to go farm on

Question 18

What problems Play at farmers during the gilded age?

Answer 18

Swarms of locusts, severe weather, and disease

Question 19

What were the goals of the grange? What did it (and other farmers alliances) accomplish?

Answer 19

To educate farmers and organize farmers topics like new farming techniques interest rates and loan programs and sponsor state legislation

Question 20

What were the arguments for the gold standard? Who typically support of this philosophy?

Answer 20

Less money and higher value and bankers/businessman

Question 21

What were the arguments for bimetallism? Who typically support of this philosophy?

Answer 21

More money and less value/farmers and laborers

Question 22

What was the significance of the populist movement?

Answer 22

Many of their performance for later in Acton, it provided that man could be organized, it was the last attempt to take White House with a focus on agrarian voters

Question 23

What were the provisions of the McKinley Tariff Bill? Why was it particularly devastating for farmers?

Answer 23

Taxes were placed on foreign goods by the federal government and this was frustrating to farmers because it caused an increase on crop values

Question 24

What were the causes of 1893?

Answer 24

Economic depression

Question 25

What was the effect of the Panic of 1893?

Answer 25

It set off bank failures

Question 26

Why did congress repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?

Answer 26

To protect gold reserves

Question 27

What factors contributed to the industrial boom that the united states experienced after the civil war?

Answer 27

Technological innovation

Westward expansion and immigration