Chapter 15 Quiz 3 Review

1. Chapter 15 Quiz 3 Review

2. In what scandal did Fisk and Gould participate? • Manipulating the price of gold • defrauding the government on railroad expenses • diverting funds from New York City government • cheating the government of excise taxes

3. Manipulating the price of gold

4. Why was Tammany Hall allowed to continue its corruption? • Grant was bribed • Most politicians were unaware of its scandals • Democratic leaders needed its help for votes • Tammany Hall paid its debt

5. Democratic leaders needed its help for votes

6. What is meant by “waving the bloody shirt”? • Blaming Radicals for the hardships in the South • blaming Democrats for the Civil War • demanding Radical Reconstruction in the South • demanding equal rights for all races

7. blaming Democrats for the Civil War

8. What did the Republicans offer Southern Democrats in return for their support in electing Rutherford B. Hayes? • Removal of federal troops from the South • return of Black Codes • recognition of the Ku Klux Klan • financial aid to the South

9. Removal of federal troops from the South

10. What was the most severe depression in the first one hundred years of America's history? ______________

11. Panic of ‘73

12. A) Rutherford B. Hayes • B) Ulysses S. Grant • C) Samuel J. Tilden • D) Horace Greeley • E) Thomas Nast • F) William Tweed • ___ one of the most scandal-ridden administrations in American history

13. B) Ulysses S. Grant

14. A) Rutherford B. Hayes • B) Ulysses S. Grant • C) Samuel J. Tilden • D) Horace Greeley • E) Thomas Nast • F) William Tweed • ___ corrupt leader who defrauded New York City

15. F) William Tweed

16. A) Rutherford B. Hayes • B) Ulysses S. Grant • C) Samuel J. Tilden • D) Horace Greeley • E) Thomas Nast • F) William Tweed • ___ cartoonist who advocated political reform

17. E) Thomas Nast

18. A) Rutherford B. Hayes • B) Ulysses S. Grant • C) Samuel J. Tilden • D) Horace Greeley • E) Thomas Nast • F) William Tweed • ___ eccentric NewYork newspaper editor who ran against Grant in 1872

19. D) Horace Greeley

20. A) Rutherford B. Hayes • B) Ulysses S. Grant • C) Samuel J. Tilden • D) Horace Greeley • E) Thomas Nast • F) William Tweed • ___ lawyer who helped to reform corruption in New York City

21. C) Samuel J. Tilden

22. A) Rutherford B. Hayes • B) Ulysses S. Grant • C) Samuel J. Tilden • D) Horace Greeley • E) Thomas Nast • F) William Tweed • ___ victor of the most disputed presidential election in American history

23. A) Rutherford B. Hayes

24. A) “Grantism” • B) Credit Mobilier Scandal • C) greenbacks • D) Whiskey Ring • E) Liberal Republicans • F) Compromise of 1877 • G) Solid South • ___ political corruption

25. A) “Grantism”

26. A) “Grantism” • B) Credit Mobilier Scandal • C) greenbacks • D) Whiskey Ring • E) Liberal Republicans • F) Compromise of 1877 • G) Solid South • ___ Northern Republicans who opposed the Radicals in 1872

27. E) Liberal Republicans

28. A) “Grantism” • B) Credit Mobilier Scandal • C) greenbacks • D) Whiskey Ring • E) Liberal Republicans • F) Compromise of 1877 • G) Solid South • ___ paper money not backed by gold or silver

29. C) greenbacks

30. A) “Grantism” • B) Credit Mobilier Scandal • C) greenbacks • D) Whiskey Ring • E) Liberal Republicans • F) Compromise of 1877 • G) Solid South • ___ criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction

31. B) Credit Mobilier Scandal

32. A) “Grantism” • B) Credit Mobilier Scandal • C) greenbacks • D) Whiskey Ring • E) Liberal Republicans • F) Compromise of 1877 • G) Solid South • ___ conspiracy to cheat the government out of excise taxes

33. D) Whiskey Ring

34. A) “Grantism” • B) Credit Mobilier Scandal • C) greenbacks • D) Whiskey Ring • E) Liberal Republicans • F) Compromise of 1877 • G) Solid South • ___ agreement to remove federal troops from the South

35. F) Compromise of 1877

36. A) “Grantism” • B) Credit Mobilier Scandal • C) greenbacks • D) Whiskey Ring • E) Liberal Republicans • F) Compromise of 1877 • G) Solid South • ___ unanimous support of the Democratic party in the former Confederacy

37. G) Solid South

38. True/False • ___ Both parties were accused of voting corruption during the election of 1876.

39. True

40. True/False • ___ The Republicans' heavy-handed effort to control the South created a powerful block of voters who would oppose them for almost a century.

41. True