Chapters 23-24

Front 1

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

Back 1

had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.

Front 2

Which political emotion motivated the Liberal Republican revolt from the regular Republican party in 1872?

Back 2

Disgust at the corruption and scandals of the Grant administration.

Front 3

All of the following were causes of the panic that broke in 1873 in the United States EXCEPT:

Back 3

Wall Street’s fears about the power of the radical Greenback party.

Front 4

What was the key result of the Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s?

Back 4

A political turn to the Democrats and the new Greenback Labor party.

Front 5

Which development was a critical reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age?

Back 5

Sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the Democratic and Republican parties.

Front 6

All of the following were among the groups that formed the solid political base of the republican party in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT:

Back 6

northern big cities.

Front 7

What political development resulted from the Compromise of 1877?

Back 7

The withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South.

Front 8

At the end of Reconstruction, southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using all of the following strategies EXCEPT:

Back 8

the use of federal troops to discourage African Americans from voting in elections.

Front 9

Which of the following was NOT a cause of labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s?

Back 9

Agitation by communist sympathizers.

Front 10

All of the following internal developments during the late nineteenth century in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States EXCEPT:

Back 10

the Nationalist Communist Civil War.

Front 11

With the passage of the Pendleton Act, prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from:

Back 11

contractors doing business with the federal government.

Front 12

Grover Cleveland argued for a lower tariff for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Back 12

lower prices for consumers.

Front 13

How did the Billion- Dollar Congress quickly dispose of rising government surpluses?

Back 13

It expanded pensions for Civil War veterans.

Front 14

President Cleveland’s response to the depression of the 1890s demonstrated that he:

Back 14

was unable to deal effectively with such a massive economic crisis.

Front 15

The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson solidified African Americans’ inferior position by:

Back 15

establishing the principle of “separate but equal.”

Front 16

Grover Cleveland’s election of 1884 marked a change in nineteenth-century American politics for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that:

Back 16

he favored agriculture over business interests.

Front 17

All of the following economic developments were significant factors in enabling America to industrialize rapidly EXCEPT:

Back 17

the sale of confiscated Confederate land and property.

Front 18

Which of the following two industries were most significantly expanded as a result of the completion of the transcontinental railroad?

Back 18

Mining and agriculture.

Front 19

Which effort represented the first attempt to regulate the monopolizing and pricing practices of the railroad corporations during this period?

Back 19

Laws passed by state legislatures that regulated the monopolizing and pricing practices of railroad corporations.

Front 20

Which of the following was NOT among the common forms of corruption practiced by the wealthy railroad barons?

Back 20

Requiring their employees to buy railroad stock as a condition of employment.

Front 21

Which of the following best describes the Europeans’ approach to ownership or investment in private companies in the United States during this period?

Back 21

Allowing Americans to manage the business unless an economic crisis occurred.

Front 22

How did the American system of mass manufacture of standardized, interchangeable parts influence the behavior of U.S. capitalists?

Back 22

It stimulated U.S. capitalists to replace skilled labor with unskilled workers and machinery.

Front 23

What two technological innovations greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late nineteenth century?

Back 23

Typewriter and telephone.

Front 24

All of the following economic strategies were employed by the titans of industry, during this period, to maximize their corporation’s profits EXCEPT:

Back 24

seeking stable labor relations with their workers by permitting collective bargaining with unions.

Front 25

Which of the following best describes the intellectual viewpoint of Andrew Carnegie as expressed in the “Gospel of Wealth”?

Back 25

The wealthy should exhibit moral and social responsibility in their use of their God-given money.

Front 26

Which entity was first prosecuted for alleged restraint-of-trade violations by the U.S. government using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890?

Back 26

Manufacturing corporations.

Front 27

All of the following were major attractions for potential investors in southern manufacturing industries EXCEPT:

Back 27

a well-educated and ethnically diverse work force.

Front 28

Despite generally rising wages in the nineteenth century, industrial workers were extremely vulnerable to all of the following EXCEPT:

Back 28

new educational requirements for jobs.

Front 29

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?

Back 29

Closed shop.

Front 30

All of the following were reasons that the Knights of Labor ultimately failed to sustain their union independence and membership by 1890s EXCEPT:

Back 30

racial and gender exclusiveness in their membership.

Front 31

Which of the following was NOT a difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

Back 31

The Knights of Labor refused to condone striking; the AFL believed that strikes could help the worker’s cause.

Front 32

Railroads changed the American landscape in all of the following ways EXCEPT by:

Back 32

limiting the number of people moving to overcrowded cities.