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23 Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

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American Pageant; Chapter 23
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Question 1

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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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  • was personally dishonest and corrupt
  • did not believe in the principles of the Republican party
  • was unable to get others to follow his lead
  • had no political experience and was a poor judge of character
  • lacked political ambition

Question 2

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Which political emotion motivated the Liberal Republican revolt from the regular Republican party in 1872?
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  • Dismay at the Republicans' weakness in upholding radical Reconstruction in the South
  • Nostalgia for leadership like that of the martyred Abraham Lincoln
  • Disgust at the corruption and scandals of the Grant administration
  • A fervent passion for reforms on behalf of women and blacks
  • A desire to strengthen the federal government's regulation of big business

Question 3

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All of the following were causes of the panic that broke out in the United States in 1873 EXCEPT:
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  • a ripple effect from similar, simultaneous economic panics in Europe and worldwide
  • the expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than the existing markets would bear
  • bank failures resulting from imprudent financial loans made by bankers in support of questionable business ventures
  • the loss of substantial financial investments by speculators in dubious and unsustainable business ventures.
  • Wall Street's fears about the power of the radical Greenback party

Question 4

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What was a key result of the Republican hard-money policies in the mid-1870s?
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  • The rise of the American dollar against foreign currencies
  • Damage to the country's credit rating
  • The return to the silver "Dollar of Our Daddies" as the dominant form of U.S. money
  • The defeat of a Democratic House of Representatives in 1874
  • A political turn tot he Democrats and the new Greenback Labor Party

Question 5

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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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  • The radical ideological differences between the Democratic and Republican parties
  • Sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the Democratic and Republican parties
  • Religious conflict between Catholics and mainline Protestants
  • Political differences over the policy issue of civil service
  • Sectional tensions among the Northeast, Midwest, and South

Question 6

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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
  • Union Civil War veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic
  • southern black freedmen
  • the Midwest
  • the rural and small-town Midwest

Question 7

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What political development resulted from the Compromise of 1877?
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  • A renewal of the Republican commitment to protect black civil rights in the South
  • The withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South
  • The election of a Democrat to the presidency
  • Republican support for an inflationary silver money policy
  • A plan to build the first transcontinental railroad

Question 8

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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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  • literacy requirements
  • poll taxes
  • economic intimidation
  • lynching
  • the use of federal troops to discourage African Americans from voting in elections

Question 9

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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
  • Reductions in wages by railroad owners and other industrial employers
  • Competition of cheap labor from recently arrived immigrants from China
  • Conflict between ethnic groups for unskilled jobs
  • Years of depression and deflation that undermined workers' living standards

Question 10

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All of the following internal developments in China during the late nineteenth century resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States EXCEPT:
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  • the disintegration of the Chinese Empire
  • the seizure of farmland by landlords
  • the intrusion of European powers
  • The Nationalist Communist Civil War
  • limited economic opportunity for Chinese peasants

Question 11

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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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  • Labor Union
  • Farmers and Agrarian Associations
  • Foreign Contributors
  • Contractors doing business with the Federal Government
  • Large Corporations

Question 12

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Which policy of President Grover Cleveland represented a departure from the broad consensus of most Gilded Age presidents?
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  • A higher tariff rate
  • A lower tariff rate
  • Anti-lynching laws
  • Government Aid to Farmers
  • Inflation of the Currency by making Silver into Gold

Question 13

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How did the billion dollar Congress quickly dispose of rising government surpluses?
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  • Congress provided subsidies to wheat, corn, and cotton farmers
  • Congress built an expensive new steel navy
  • Congress expanded pensions for Civil War veterans
  • Congress cut tariffs and other taxes
  • Congress increased spending on railroads and other transportation projects

Question 14

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President Cleveland's response to the depression of the 1890s demonstrated that he:
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  • was able to work effectively with J.P. Morgan to address the problems of unemployment
  • understood the problems of urban workers better than those of farmers
  • had a weak grasp of the economic theory that lay behind the demand for free silver
  • was unable to deal effectively with such a massive economic crisis
  • was able to skillfully incorporate some populist proposals into the Democratic party
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