| Question | Answer |
| Who was the military leader whose presidency foundered in corruption and political ineptitude? | Grant |
| What was the symbol of the Republican political tactic attacking Democrats with reminders of the Civil War | Waving the bloody shirt |
| Financiers Jim Fisk and Jay Gould tried to get the Grant administration involved with what corrupt scheme? | cornering the Gold Market |
| Who was a bold and unprincipled financier whose plot to corner the gold market nearly succeeded in 1869? | Fisk |
| What finally brought Boss Tweed's widespread corruption to a halt? | New York Times and Nast |
| Who was the heavy weight New York political boss whose widespread fraud landed him in jail in 1871 | Boss Tweed |
| Which scandal involved railroad corporation fraud and the subsequent bribery of congressmen | Credit Mobilier Scandal |
| What was Grant's greatest failing in the scandals that plagued his administration | toleration of corruption |
| who was a colorful, cranky newspaper editor who carried the liberal Republican and Democratic banners against Grant in 1872? | Greeley |
| What was the third party the backed Horace Greeley against Grant in the election of 1872? | Liberal Republican party |
| Who was the wealthy New York financier whose bank collapsed in 1873, setting off an economic depression | Jay Cooke |
| The depression of the 1870s led to increasing demands for what? | Inflation of the money supply by issuing more paper currency |
| For what did the westerners and farmers who attacked the "Crime of '73" call? | Coinage of more silver |
| Who was the congressional co-author of an 1878 act that empowered the Treasury to mint limited amounts of silver? | Richard P. Bland |
| What was Mark Twain's sarcastic name for the post-Civil War era which emphasized its atmosphere of greed and corruption? | Gilded Age |
| How was the political system of the "Gilded Age" generally characterized?(3) | 1. strong political party
2.high voter turnout
3.few disagreements on national issues |
| What was the primary goal for which all factions in both political parties contended? | Patronage |
| What was the Civil War veterans' organization that became a potent political bulwark of the Republican party in the late 19th century? | Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) |
| Who was the imperious New York senator and leader of the "Stalwart" faction of Republicans? | Roscoe Conkling |
| Who was the winner of a contested election in 1876 who presided over the end of Reconstruction and a sharp economic downturn? | Hayes |
| What was the Republican party faction, led by Senator Roscoe Conkling that opposed all attempts at civil service reform? | Stalwarts |
| Which Republican party faction, led by James G. Blaine, game lukewarm support to the civil-service idea while still battling for patronage and spoils? | Half-breeds |
| What was the complex political agreement between republicans and democrats that resolved the bitterly disputed election of 1876? | Compromise of 1877 |
| What was the key tradeoff featured in the Compromise of 1877 | Republicans got the presidency in exchange for the final removal of federal troops from the South |
| What system enabled storekeepers to extend credit on small farmers' crops and thus keep them permanently in debt? | Crop lien system |
| What changes affected blacks in the South after federal troops were withdrawn in the Compromise of 1877(3)? | 1. literacy requirements and poll taxes
2. tenant farming and sharecropping
3. legal racial segregation |
| What is the term for the racial segregation laws imposed in the 1890s? | Jim Crow |
| What did the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy vs Ferguson upholding "separate but equal" public facilities in effect legalize | unequal segregation between the races |
| Who was the Irish bord leader of the anti-Chinese movement in California | Denis Kearny |
| Which Asian immigrant group experienced discrimination on the West coast? | Chinese |
| Why did the first Chinese immigrants come to the United States primarily | to work in goldmines and railroads |
| What "soft-money" third party polled over a million votes and elected fourteen congressmen in 1878 by advocating inflation? | Greenback labor party |
| Who was the president whose assassination after only a few months in office spurred the passage of a civil-service law | Garfield |
| What system of choosing federal employees on the basis of merit rather than patronage was introduced by the Pendleton Act of 1883 | civil service |
| Who was charming but corrupt "half-breed" republican senator and presidential nominee in 1884? | Blaine |
| Who was the first democratic president since the civil war, defender of laissez-faire economics and low tarriffs | Cleveland |
| Who were the republican clean-government advocates who supported democrat cleveland in 1884 because of the corruption of republican nominee blaine | mugwumps |
| what was the nasty "RRR" label attached to the democratic party by a republican speaker in the election of 1884 | Rum, Romanism, Rebellion |
| who was the presidential grandson of another president who defeated cleveland by backing high tarriffs | B. Harrison |
| Who was the British ambassador whose pro-cleveland advocacy during the election of 1888 got him expelled from the US | Sackville-West |
| Describe the person who assassinated president james garfield | mentally unstable, disappointed office seeker |
