Deck 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Samuel Tilden

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles J. Guiteau

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Chester A. Arthur

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James G. Blaine

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Horatio Seymour

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Boss" Tweed

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James A. Garfield

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Roscoe Conkling

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Nast

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Winfield S. Hancock

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Winfield Scott Hancock

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Benjamin Harrison

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jay Gould

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jim Fisk

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Horace Greeley

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Grover Cleveland

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Belknap

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Denis Kearney

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
crop-lien system

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
pork-barrel bills

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James B. Weaver

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"hard-money"

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
populism

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
spoils system

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
J. P. Morgan

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Adlai E. Stevenson

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"waving the bloody shirt"

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​patronage

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Jennings Bryan

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
contraction

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"cheap-money"

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gilded Age

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William McKinley

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Andrew Carnegie

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Reed

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Jim Crow laws

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
grandfather clause

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tom Watson

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tweed Ring

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Ohio Idea"

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Civil Rights Cases (1883)

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Whiskey Ring

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pendleton Act

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mugwumps

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Liberal Republicans

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Black Friday

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Compromise of 1877

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
United States vs. Wong Kim Ark

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion"

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
panic of 1873

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Half-Breed

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Freedman's Savings and Trust Company

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
greenbacks

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Civil Rights Act of 1875

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Crédit Mobilier scandal

Question 61

President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because

A)the Democrats and Liberal Republicans could not decide on a single candidate.
B)he promised reforms in the political system.
C)he was the only candidate who enjoyed support in both the North and South.
D)the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the politically and personally eccentric and dubiously sound editor Horace Greeley as their candidate.
E)of the massive support of black voters in the Reconstruction South.

Question 62

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Question 63

A major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was

A)the issuance of millions of dollars in greenbacks.
B)the expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets would bear.
C)a credit crunch caused by extremely high interest rates.
D)Wall Street's fears about the power of the radical Greenback Labor party.
E)excessive speculation in mining stocks.

Question 64

The Liberal Republican revolt from the regular Republican party in 1872 was motivated primarily by

A)dismay at the Republicans' weakness in upholding radical Reconstruction in the South.
B)a desire to see President Grant reelected among these Liberal Republicans and a fear that the regular Republican Party would not renominate Grant for president because of his policies.
C)disgust at the corruption and scandals of the Grant administration.
D)a fervent passion for reforms on behalf of women and blacks.
E)a desire to strengthen the federal government's regulation of big business.

Question 65

The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated

A)the typical lack of ethics of the Gilded Age, which also pervaded government in the form of bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections.
B)the concern of urban political bosses with representing the best political and economic interests of their urban constitutients.
C)the high value on honesty and ethics put on governing during this age.
D)the inability of the press and the legal establishment to take down a notoriously venal political figure after a lifetime of managing a politically corrupt machine.
E)the effectiveness of the federal government in ferreting out urban political corruption at an early stage in its development.

Question 66

In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of the Crédit Mobilizer

A)left the country.
B)belatedly started to follow honest business practices.
C)used shady bookkeeping to conceal their insider financial deals.
D)tried to gain immunity by testifying before Congress.
E)bribed key congressmen by giving them shares of the company's valuable stock.

Question 67

Black Americans were hard hit by the gloom times of the depression years of the mid 1870s because

A)many had put their savings in the Freedman's Savings and Trust, only to see it vanish due to bad investments by the savings bank.
B)they did not set aside significant amounts of money for savings, preferring to spend or invest almost every dollar that they earned.
C)mobs of unemployed workers took out their frustrations through violence against blacks.
D)they lost what little money they owned to directly investing in speculation schemes that had gone bankrupt.
E)None of these choices are correct.

Question 68

The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved

A)public utility company bribes.
B)Bureau of Indian Affairs payoffs.
C)railroad construction kickbacks.
D)bribes to French government officials in exchange to promises of favorable tariff treatment of French goods.
E)manipulating agricultural commodities traded on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Question 69

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
McKinley Tariff

Question 70

In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

A)transformed his personal popularity into a large majority in the popular vote.
B)owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.
C)gained his victory by winning the votes of the majority of whites.
D)won a clear majority of electoral votes in the Electoral College, but narrowly lost the popular vote in the country.
E)All of these choices are correct.

Question 71

In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters

A)of the gory memories of the Civil War and the Republican party's role in the Union's victory.
B)that the Civil War had been caused by the election of a Republican president.
C)that Republicans had reformed the corrupt radical regimes in the Reconstruction South.
D)that radical Republicans catered to freed slaves during Reconstruction.
E)of Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks.

Question 72

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Farmers' Alliance

Question 73

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War

A)the push for social, political, and economic reforms intensified and gained momentum in and out of state, local, and the federal government.
B)Americans retained a strong sense of idealistic sacrifice.
C)the North developed a strong sense of moral superiority.
D)concern for racial questions took precedence over economics.
E)waste, speculation, and corruption afflicted both business and government.

Question 74

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Billion-Dollar Congress

Question 75

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
People's Party (Populists)

Question 76

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Homestead Strike

Question 77

As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873, debtors strongly advocated

A)a return to gold as the only form of American money.
B)establishment of a federally regulated system of savings and loan banks.
C)the appointment of farmers and workers to the Treasury Department.
D)bankers making additional, greater loans at lower interest rates to finance new economic ventures by promoters who were having trouble realizing profits from their previous railroad, mines, factory, and grainfield investments.
E)inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency.

Question 78

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Colored Farmers' National Alliance

Question 79

Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he

A)was personally dishonest and corrupt.
B)did not believe in the principles of the Republican party.
C)was incapable of striking the type of political compromises necessary for a successful political leader.
D)had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.
E)lacked political ambition.

Question 80

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Wilson-Gorman Tariff