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32 Cards in this Set
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Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he:
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had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.
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Which political emotion motivated the Liberal Republican revolt from the regular Republican party in 1872?
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Disgust at the corruption and scandals of the Grant administration.
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All of the following were causes of the panic that broke in 1873 in the United States EXCEPT:
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Wall Street’s fears about the power of the radical Greenback party.
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What was the key result of the Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s?
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A political turn to the Democrats and the new Greenback Labor party.
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Which development was a critical reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age?
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Sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the Democratic and Republican parties.
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All of the following were among the groups that formed the solid political base of the republican party in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT:
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northern big cities.
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What political development resulted from the Compromise of 1877?
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The withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South.
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At the end of Reconstruction, southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using all of the following strategies EXCEPT:
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the use of federal troops to discourage African Americans from voting in elections.
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Which of the following was NOT a cause of labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s?
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Agitation by communist sympathizers.
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All of the following internal developments during the late nineteenth century in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States EXCEPT:
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the Nationalist Communist Civil War.
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With the passage of the Pendleton Act, prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from:
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contractors doing business with the federal government.
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Grover Cleveland argued for a lower tariff for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
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lower prices for consumers.
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How did the Billion- Dollar Congress quickly dispose of rising government surpluses?
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It expanded pensions for Civil War veterans.
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President Cleveland’s response to the depression of the 1890s demonstrated that he:
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was unable to deal effectively with such a massive economic crisis.
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The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson solidified African Americans’ inferior position by:
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establishing the principle of “separate but equal.”
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Grover Cleveland’s election of 1884 marked a change in nineteenth-century American politics for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that:
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he favored agriculture over business interests.
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All of the following economic developments were significant factors in enabling America to industrialize rapidly EXCEPT:
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the sale of confiscated Confederate land and property.
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Which of the following two industries were most significantly expanded as a result of the completion of the transcontinental railroad?
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Mining and agriculture.
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Which effort represented the first attempt to regulate the monopolizing and pricing practices of the railroad corporations during this period?
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Laws passed by state legislatures that regulated the monopolizing and pricing practices of railroad corporations.
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Which of the following was NOT among the common forms of corruption practiced by the wealthy railroad barons?
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Requiring their employees to buy railroad stock as a condition of employment.
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Which of the following best describes the Europeans’ approach to ownership or investment in private companies in the United States during this period?
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Allowing Americans to manage the business unless an economic crisis occurred.
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How did the American system of mass manufacture of standardized, interchangeable parts influence the behavior of U.S. capitalists?
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It stimulated U.S. capitalists to replace skilled labor with unskilled workers and machinery.
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What two technological innovations greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late nineteenth century?
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Typewriter and telephone.
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All of the following economic strategies were employed by the titans of industry, during this period, to maximize their corporation’s profits EXCEPT:
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seeking stable labor relations with their workers by permitting collective bargaining with unions.
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Which of the following best describes the intellectual viewpoint of Andrew Carnegie as expressed in the “Gospel of Wealth”?
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The wealthy should exhibit moral and social responsibility in their use of their God-given money.
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Which entity was first prosecuted for alleged restraint-of-trade violations by the U.S. government using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890?
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Manufacturing corporations.
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All of the following were major attractions for potential investors in southern manufacturing industries EXCEPT:
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a well-educated and ethnically diverse work force.
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Despite generally rising wages in the nineteenth century, industrial workers were extremely vulnerable to all of the following EXCEPT:
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new educational requirements for jobs.
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Which of the following was NOT a strategy utilized by late-nineteenth-century employers to gain leverage over workers seeking to improve their wages and working conditions?
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Closed shop.
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All of the following were reasons that the Knights of Labor ultimately failed to sustain their union independence and membership by 1890s EXCEPT:
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racial and gender exclusiveness in their membership.
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Which of the following was NOT a difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
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The Knights of Labor refused to condone striking; the AFL believed that strikes could help the worker’s cause.
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Railroads changed the American landscape in all of the following ways EXCEPT by:
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limiting the number of people moving to overcrowded cities.
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