Chapter 23 Take-Home Test

1. Chapter 23 Take-Home Test

2. 60 At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant

3. D. Accepted gifts of houses and money from citizens President Ulysses S. Grant

4. 61 In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

5. B. Owed his victory to the votes of former slaves Led to adoption of 15th amendment (1870)

6. The 1868 Republican Ticket Grant’s slogan: Let Us Have Peace

7. The 1868 Democratic Ticket

8. 62 As a result of the Civil War

9. E. waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of the Republic. Graft: the act of taking advantage of one's position, esp. a political position, to gain money, property, etc. dishonestly

10. 63 In the late 19th c., those political candidates who campaigned by waving the bloody shirt were reminding voters

11. A. Of the “treason” of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War Republican “Southern Strategy”

12. 64 Which one of the following is least related to the other four?

13. D. “Ohio Idea” The Ohio idea was an idea by poor Midwesterners during the election of 1868 to redeem federal war bonds in United States dollars, also known as greenbacks, rather than gold. Agrarian Democrats hoped to keep more money in circulation to keep interest rates lower. Wealthy eastern delegates demanded a plank promising that federal war bonds be redeemed in gold-even though many of the bonds had been purchased with badly depreciated paper greenbacks. Poorer Midwestern delegates answered with the "Ohio Idea," which called for redemption in greenbacks. Debt-burdened agrarian Democrats hoped to keep more money in circulation and keep interest rates lower.

14. 65 One weapon that was used to put Boss Tweed, leader of NY's infamous Tweed Ring, in jail was

15. A. The cartoons of the political satirist Thomas Nast William Marcy Tweed (notorious head of Tammany Hall’s political machine) – imprisoned for embezzlement[Thomas Nast crusading cartoonist/reporter]

17. 66 The Credit Mobilier scandal involved

18. C. Railroad construction kickbacks Involved the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the first Transcontinental Railroad. The distribution of Crédit Mobilier shares of stock by Congressman Oakes Ames along with cash bribes to congressmen took place during the Andrew Johnson presidency in 1868. The revelation of the congressmen who received cash bribes or shares in Crédit Mobilier took place during the Ulysses S. Grant administration in 1872.

19. 67 In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of Credit Mobilier

20. E. Distributed shares of the company’s valuable stock to key congressmen

21. 68 President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because

22. D. His opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency

23. 69 Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated.

24. D. Roscoe Conkling – Stalwarts James Blaine – “Half Breeds” Horace Greeley – Liberal Republicans Ulysses Grant – Regular Republicans The major difference between Stalwarts and “half-breeds” was the issue of patronage. The terms stopped being used after the assassination of James Garfield.

25. 70 One cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was

26. B. The construction of more factories than existing markets would bear. Too many people had taken out loans they were unable to pay back because they lost money they had invested.

27. 71 As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested

28. E. Inflationary policies

29. 72 One result of Republican "hard money" policies was

30. E. The formation of the Greenback Labor party

31. 73 Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post- Civil War decades were usually

32. C. Party loyalists

33. 74 During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans

34. A. Had few significant economic differences

35. 75 The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s

36. E. Aroused great interest among voters.

37. 76 One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was

38. B. Sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties

39. 77 During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was

40. E. Political patronage. Patronage: the power to distribute or appoint people to governmental or political positions.

41. 78 "Spoilsmen" was the label attached to those who

42. A. Expected government jobs from their party’s elected officeholders.

43. 79 The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on

44. B. The two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.

46. 1876 Election Returns

47. 80 The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

48. B. The withdrawal of federal troops from the South.

49. 81 The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age was

50. D. Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland