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25 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following is a major cause of the panic that broke in 1873? |
expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets could bear
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What was one result of the Republican "hard-money" policies in the mid-1870s? |
a political turn to the Democrats and the new Greenback Labor party |
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Democrats and Republicans in the Gilded Age generally |
had few significant policy differences.
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In religious and cultural terms, republicans generally appealed to groups that derived their views from which of the following?
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Puritan tradition of strict moral codes and government regulation of morality and society |
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Although there was a lack of major national political issues, Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issues like which of the following? |
prohibition and education |
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Which of the following best represents one reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age? |
sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties
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During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and Republican parties was |
political patronage. |
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The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in which of the following areas? |
the white South and big-city immigrant machines
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Which of the following was the most major problem in the 1876 presidential election? |
two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana
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Which of the following best explains the result of the Compromise of 1877? |
federal troops were withdrawn from the South and the Republicans abandoned black rights in the South
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Which of the following statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1875 is not true? |
it was supposed to guarantee equal rights in voting and access to education for blacks and whites
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Which of the following best summarizes the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)? |
"separate but equal" facilities were constitutional
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Which of the following is a way in which Southern whites disenfranchised (denied the vote to) African Americans? |
poll taxes
economic and physical intimidation
literacy requirements
all of these
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Rutherford B. Hayes began his presidency with which of the following issues at hand? |
sharp class conflict and a national railroad strike |
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Why did the national railroad strike of 1877 begin? |
the four largest railroads cut salaries by 10 percent
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Which of the following best describes the fundamental attitude of Hayes and other Republican administrations toward labor agitation in the Gilded Age? |
strong support for the railroads and business in their efforts to crush labor organizing
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Which of the following is a reason that the Chinese came to the United States? |
to dig for gold
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Which of the following best describes the Pendleton Act's effect on people applying for federal government jobs? |
Those applying for federal jobs had to take a competitive examination.
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Which of the following did Grover Cleveland gain during his presidency as a result of his strong belief in a laissez-faire approach to government? |
support from businesspeople
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Which of the following was the most major issue of the 1888 presidential election? |
tariff policy
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Cleveland's proposal to address the problem of the large federal budget surplus angered big business, and gained the support of many farmers. What was his proposal? |
lower the tariff
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How did the Billion-Dollar Congress dispose of rising government surpluses? |
by expanding pensions for Civil War veterans
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Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist party in their convention of 1892? |
Government guarantees on parity prices for farmers
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Which of the following best describes the Pendleton Act's impact on American political campaigns?
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Political contributions from federal workers (in return for jobs) were prohibited, which led to politicians seeking money from big corporations. |
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Which of the following best describes how the white "Bourbon Democrats" of the South succeeded in crushing the Populist revolt? |
appealing to poor white farmers' anti-black racial feelings against their economic interests
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