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Chapter 23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Financiers Jim Fist and Jay Gould tried to involve the Grant administration in a corrupt scheme to | corner the gold market |
| Boss Tweed's widespread corruption was finally brought to a halt by | the journalistic exposes of The New York Times and cartoonist Thomas Nast |
| The Credit Mobilier Scandal involved | railroad corporation fraud and the subsequent bribery of congressmen |
| Grant's greatest failing in the scandals that plagued his administration was | his toleration of corruption and his loyalty to crooked friends |
| The depression of the 1870s led to increasing demands for | inflation of the money supply by issuing more paper or silver currency |
| The political system of the "Gilded Age" was generally characterized by | strong party loyalties, high voter turnout, and few disagreements on the national issues |
| The primary goal for which all factions in both political parties contended during the Gilded Age was | patronage |
| The key tradeoff featured in the Compromise of 1877 was that | Republicans got the presidency in exchange for the final removal of federal troops from the south |
| Which of the following was not among the changes that affected African Americans in the south after federal troops were withdrawn in the Compromise of 1877? | The forced relocation of black farmers to the Kansas and Oklahoma "dust bowl" |
| The Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson upholding "separate but equal" public facilities in effect legalized | the system of unequal segregation between the races |
| The great railroad strike of 1877 revealed | the growing threat of class warfare in response to the economic depression of the mid-1870s |
| The final result of the widespread anti-Chinese agitation in the West was | a Congressional law to prohibit any further Chinese immigration |
| President James Garfield was assassinated by | a mentally unstable disappointed office seeker |
| In its first years, the Populist Party advocated, among other things | free silver, a graduated income tax, and government ownership of the railroads, telegraph, and telephone |
| Grover Cleveland stirred a furious storm of protest when, in response to the extreme financial crisis of the 1890s, he | borrowed $65 million dollars from J.P. Morgan and other bankers in order to save the monetary gold standard |
| The symbol of the Republican political tactic of attacking Democrats with reminders of the Civil War | Waving the bloody shirt |
| Corrupt construction company whose bribes and payoffs to congressmen and others created a major Grant administration scandal | Credit Mobilier |
| Short-lived third party of 1872 that attempted to curb Grant administration corruption | Liberal Republican Party |
| Precious metal that "soft-money" advocates demanded be coined again to compensate for the "Crime of '73" | Silver |
| "Soft-money" thirds party that polled over a million votes and elected fourteen congressmen in 1878 by advocating inflation | Greenback Labor Party |
| Mark Twain's sarcastic name for the post-Civil War era, which emphasized its atmosphere of greed and corruption | Gilded Age |
| Civil War Union veterans' organization that became a potent political bulwark of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century | Grand Army of the Republic |
| Republican party action led by Senator Roscoe Conkling that opposed all attempts at civil-service reform | Stalwarts |
| Republican party faction led by Senator James G. Blain that paid lip service to government reform while still battling for patronage and spoils | Half-Breeds |
| The complex political agreement between Republicans and Democrats that resolved the bitterly disputed election of 1876 | Compromise of 1877 |
| Asian immigrant group that experienced discrimination o the West Coast | Chinese |
| System of choosing federal employees on the basis of merit rather than patronage introduced by the Pendleton Act of 1833 | Civil Service |
| Sky-high Republican tariff of 1890 that caused widespread anger among farmers in the Midwest and the South | McKinley Tariff |
| Insurgent political party that gained widespread support among farmers in the 1890s | Populists |
| Notorious clause in the southern voting laws that exempted from literacy tests and poll taxes anyone whose ancestors had voted in 1860, thereby excluding blacks | Grandfather Clause |
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