U.s. History Ii Chapter 23

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Which of the following is a major cause of the panic that broke in 1873?

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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?

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a political turn to the Democrats and the new Greenback Labor party

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Democrats and Republicans in the Gilded Age generally

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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?

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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?

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sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties

Front 7

During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and Republican parties was

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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)?

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"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?

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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?

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sharp class conflict and a national railroad strike

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Why did the national railroad strike of 1877 begin?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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support from businesspeople

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Which of the following was the most major issue of the 1888 presidential election?

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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?

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lower the tariff

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

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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?

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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?

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appealing to poor white farmers' anti-black racial feelings against their economic interests