Politics In The Gilded Age

Question 1

Who gave the gilded age its name?

Answer 1

Mark twain

Question 2

What was the republican candidate’s slogan in the election of 1868?

Answer 2

Vote the way you shot

Question 3

Who won the election of 1868?

Answer 3

Grant

Question 4

How is president grant rated as president?

Answer 4

One of the worst 5

Question 5

What do the call it when a person stands up and reminds northerners about what the South did during and after the war?

Answer 5

Waving the bloody shirt

Question 6

Who was the first person to do this?

Answer 6

Ben butler

Question 7

Another phrase to describe the gilded age is?

Answer 7

Era of good stealing

Question 8

Who was grants brother in law who participated in Fisk and gould gold plot?

Answer 8

Abel Corbin

Question 9

What do the call the day when president grant released gold into the economy after he discovered that he was tricked into holding gold in the treasury reserve??

Answer 9

Black Friday

Question 10

How much money had president grants wife invested in gold?

Answer 10

$500,000

Question 11

Who was the secretary of war that schemed to steal valuable food from the Native American Indians on the various reservations?

Answer 11

Louis Belknop

Question 12

What member of president grants staff was in on the whiskey ring?

Answer 12

Private secretary

Question 13

This fake company was created by the board of the Union Pacific Railroad to build bridges and tunnels?

Answer 13

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Question 14

What was the rate of pay the fake company which was created by the Union Pacific received per mile to rebuild the railroad in the south?

Answer 14

$50,000

Question 15

What member of president grants administration was bought out by the fake company created by Union Pacific?

Answer 15

Vice President Schayler Colfax

Question 16

What was the percentage of profit that the fake company created by the Union Pacific earned during its existence?

Answer 16

348%

Question 17

These were often powerful senators who controlled portions of a state and or many cities?

Answer 17

Political bosses

Question 18

This is the name of the Democratic Party machine in New York City?

Answer 18

Tammany Hall

Question 19

This guy was the boss of the Democratic Party machine in New York City?

Answer 19

Boss Tweed

Question 20

The acquisition of money or political power through illegal or dishonest methods?

Answer 20

Graft

Question 21

Named after its political boss, this organization worked out of Tammany Hall and welcomed immigrants arriving into America from Ellis island?

Answer 21

Tweed King

Question 22

What was the estimated amount of money that boss Tweed store from the government?

Answer 22

$200 million

Question 23

This political cartoonist made it his purpose to destroy boss Tweed?

Answer 23

Thomas Nast

Question 24

List three artistic creations that were created by Thomas Nast that have influenced America to this day

Answer 24

Donkey elephant Santa

Question 25

What word was created due to the nature of Nast's dogged attack upon boss Tweed?

Answer 25

Nasty

Question 26

This man lost, in one month, the presidential election, his wife, his job, his mind and his life?

Answer 26

Greeley

Question 27

This happened in 1873 when people stop trusting the American dollar?

Answer 27

Panic of 1873

Question 28

What was Rutherford B Hayes's nickname before the presidential election of 1876?

Answer 28

The great unknown

Question 29

List three nicknames for Rutherford B Hayes after the election of 1876

Answer 29

Ole 8-7 His fraudulence Rutherfraud

Question 30

This committee of representative was assembled to determine who was present in the election of 1876?

Answer 30

Committee of 15

Question 31

Who won the popular vote and probably the presidency in the election of 1876?

Answer 31

Sam Tilden

Question 32

After the election of 1876, this ended in the south?

Answer 32

Reconstruction

Question 33

This is what they call the agreement to allow Rutherford B Hayes to become the president?

Answer 33

Compromise of 1877

Question 34

What was Rutherford B Hayes's wife's nickname?

Answer 34

Lemonade Lucy

Question 35

Which faction of the republican party favors some civil service testing?

Answer 35

Stalwarts

Question 36

Who won the election of 1880?

Answer 36

Garfield

Question 37

Who was chosen to be Garfield's vice president?

Answer 37

Chester A Arthur

Question 38

Who shot Garfield?

Answer 38

Charles Guiteau

Question 39

What political party (faction) did the assassin of Garfield belong to?

Answer 39

Stalwarts

Question 40

This is the general statement often made about Arthur concerning how he changed overnight to deserve to be president of the United States?

Answer 40

Rose to office

Question 41

This election is often referred to as one of the dirtiest elections of all time?

Answer 41

Election of 1884

Question 42

What Republicans action did James Blaine belong to?

Answer 42

Halfbreed

Question 43

These were Republicans who were so upset that Arthur wasn't given a chance to run for office against the election of 1880 for that they voted for Democratic candidate?

Answer 43

Mugwumps

Question 44

Who was the Democratic candidate that won the election of 1884?

Answer 44

Cleveland

Question 45

What was the most serious attack upon the Democratic candidate in the election of 1884?

Answer 45

Illegitimate child

Question 46

List two attacks fired back at the Republican candidate in the election of 1884

Answer 46

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