Gilded Age Questions
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| Who was the military leader whose presidency foundered in corruption and political ineptitude? | show 🗑
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| What was the symbol of the Republican political tactic attacking Democrats with reminders of the Civil War | show 🗑
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| show | cornering the Gold Market
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| show | Fisk
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| show | New York Times and Nast
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| show | Boss Tweed
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| Which scandal involved railroad corporation fraud and the subsequent bribery of congressmen | show 🗑
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| What was Grant's greatest failing in the scandals that plagued his administration | show 🗑
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| who was a colorful, cranky newspaper editor who carried the liberal Republican and Democratic banners against Grant in 1872? | show 🗑
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| show | Liberal Republican party
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| Who was the wealthy New York financier whose bank collapsed in 1873, setting off an economic depression | show 🗑
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| show | Inflation of the money supply by issuing more paper currency
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| For what did the westerners and farmers who attacked the "Crime of '73" call? | show 🗑
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| show | Richard P. Bland
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| show | Gilded Age
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| How was the political system of the "Gilded Age" generally characterized?(3) | show 🗑
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| show | Patronage
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| show | Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)
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| show | Roscoe Conkling
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| show | Hayes
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| show | Stalwarts
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| show | Half-breeds
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| What was the complex political agreement between republicans and democrats that resolved the bitterly disputed election of 1876? | show 🗑
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| What was the key tradeoff featured in the Compromise of 1877 | show 🗑
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| What system enabled storekeepers to extend credit on small farmers' crops and thus keep them permanently in debt? | show 🗑
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| show | 1. literacy requirements and poll taxes
2. tenant farming and sharecropping
3. legal racial segregation
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| show | Jim Crow
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| What did the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy vs Ferguson upholding "separate but equal" public facilities in effect legalize | show 🗑
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| show | Denis Kearny
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| show | Chinese
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| show | to work in goldmines and railroads
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| What "soft-money" third party polled over a million votes and elected fourteen congressmen in 1878 by advocating inflation? | show 🗑
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| Who was the president whose assassination after only a few months in office spurred the passage of a civil-service law | show 🗑
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| What system of choosing federal employees on the basis of merit rather than patronage was introduced by the Pendleton Act of 1883 | show 🗑
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| show | Blaine
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| show | Cleveland
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| Who were the republican clean-government advocates who supported democrat cleveland in 1884 because of the corruption of republican nominee blaine | show 🗑
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| show | Rum, Romanism, Rebellion
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| show | B. Harrison
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| Who was the British ambassador whose pro-cleveland advocacy during the election of 1888 got him expelled from the US | show 🗑
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| show | mentally unstable, disappointed office seeker
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