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Chapter 23 Test Study Guide
You need to know and state the historical significance of the following:
1. Ulysses S. Grant
21. Tom Watson
41. “Crime of '73”
2. Horatio Seymour
22. Adlai E. Stevenson
42. Bland-Allison Act
3. Jim Fisk
23. William Jennings Bryan
43. Greenback Labor party
4. Jay Gould
24. J. P. Morgan
44. Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)
5. Thomas Nast
25. soft/cheap money
45. Stalwart
6. Horace Greeley
26. hard/sound money
46. Half-Breed
7. Jay Cooke
27. contraction
47. Compromise of 1877
8. Roscoe Conkling
28. resumption
48. Pendleton Act
9. James G. Blaine
29. Gilded Age
49. Mugwumps
10. Rutherford B. Hayes
30. spoils system
50. “Redeemers”
11. Samuel Tilden
31. crop-lien system
51. Plessy v. Ferguson
12. James A. Garfield
32. pork-barrel bills
52. Jim Crow
13. Chester A. Arthur
33. populism
53. Chinese Exclusion Act
14. Winfield S. Hancock
34. grandfather clause
54. U.S. vs. Wong Kim
15. Charles J. Guiteau
35. “Ohio Idea”
55. “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion”
16. Grover Cleveland
36. the “bloody shirt”
56. Billion-Dollar Congress
17. Benjamin Harrison
37. Tweed Ring
57. People's Party (Populists)
18. Thomas Reed
38. Crédit Mobilier
58. Sherman Silver Purchase Act
19. William McKinley
39. Whiskey Ring
59. McKinley Tariff
20. James B. Weaver
40. Liberal Republicans
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60. At the conclusion of the Civil War, how was General Ulysses S. Grant awarded?
61. In the presidential election of 1868, how was Ulysses S. Grant able to lock in victory?
62. As a result of the Civil War, how did the values of the United States change?
63. Political candidates who campaigned by “waving the bloody shirt” symbolically meant
to remind voters of what?
64. What do Jim Frisk and Jay Gould have in common?
65. What action helped to put Boss Tweed, leader of New York City's infamous Tweed
Ring, in jail?
66. What was the Crédit Mobilier scandal?
67. How did the owners of Crédit Mobilizer attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt
dealings?
68. Why was President Ulysses S. Grant reelected in 1872?
69. Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was
associated.
A. Roscoe Conkling
1. “Half-Breeds”
B. James Blaine
2. Stalwarts
C. Horace Greeley
3. Regular Republicans
D. Ulysses Grant
4. Liberal Republicans
70. What was the major cause of the panic that broke in 1873?
71. What was the debtors solution to the panic or depression of 1873?
72. What were the result of the Republican “hard money” policies?
73. What group enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades?
74. During the Gilded Age, how different were the economic views of the Democrats and
the Republicans?
75. How did voters react to the presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s?
76. What were the reasons for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the
Gilded Age?
77. During the Gilded Age, what group or practice was the lifeblood of both the Democratic
and the Republican parties?
78. Who were the“Spoilsmen?”
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79. What was the major problem in the 1876 presidential election?
80. What was the result of the Compromise of 1877?
81. What is the correct sequence of presidential terms of the “forgettable presidents” of the
Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms).
82. What was the significant ruling in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
83. At the end of Reconstruction, how did Southern whites disenfranchise African
Americans?
84. What were the legal codes that established the system of segregation?
85. What problems did the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes see early on?
86. The great railroad strike of 1877 started because…….
87. Why was there so much labor unrest during the Hayes administration?
88. What tactics were used in suppressing labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s?
89. What action does the United States Congress take as a result of the anti-Chinese
violence in California?
90. What changes in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States?
91. What was the main reason that the Chinese came to the United States?
92. What does the Chinese word tong mean?
93. Who was the second president to be assassinated while in office?
94. Who assassinated this second president?
95. What did the Pendleton Act require from appointees to public office?
96. With the passage of the Pendleton Act, where do politicians turn to for campaign
money?
97. Why does the 1884 election contest between Blaine and Cleveland stand out?
98. What was Cleveland’s political party?
99. Grover Cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support of what
group?
100. What was President Grover Cleveland’s position on tariffs?
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101. What was the major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election?
102. In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, where was the locus of political power?
103. The “Billion-Dollar Congress” quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by
taking what action?
104. What were the platform planks adopted by the Populist Party in their convention of
1892?
105. What are the four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892?
106. How did the Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers end?
107. What shaped the political developments of the l890s?
108. Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of
what pro-silver leader?
109. President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by taking what action?
110. What group was the greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President
Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894?
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