Deck 19: Politics and Discontent in the Gilded Age, 1878-1896

Question 1

The club name "Boys in Blue" was intended to remind voters that

A)the Republicans were linked to the "northern war of aggression."
B)the Republicans supported a strong police force.
C)black voters were overwhelmingly Republican.
D)Democrats were closely associated with the Confederacy.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Gerrymandering is the practice of

A)rigging elections by tampering with ballot boxes.
B)encouraging voters to vote multiple times.
C)the partisan redrawing of district lines to influence election results.
D)giving jobs,food,and other aid to the urban poor in exchange for votes.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which territories were the first to allow women to vote?

A)the Idaho and Washington territories
B)the Dakota and Montana territories.
C)the Montana and Wyoming territories
D)the Utah and Wyoming territories

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Weekly publications specialized in giving readers

A)a visual experience of key events.
B)an in-depth analysis of issues.
C)a women's perspective.
D)non-political news.

Question 5

The American Woman Suffrage Association lobbied chiefly for

A)a constitutional amendment to enfranchise women.
B)minority voting rights.
C)women's suffrage on the state level.
D)women's suffrage at the municipal level.

Question 6

How did women often justify their incursion into the traditionally male sphere of politics?

A)on the basis that God had created men and women equal
B)by explaining that government had a direct impact on the female domain of the home
C)with a constitutional argument
D)None of these answers is correct.

Question 7

Party members orchestrated election festivities through two different types of clubs:

A)marching clubs and voting clubs.
B)marching clubs and political clubs.
C)parade clubs and political clubs.
D)voting clubs and parade clubs.

Question 8

Internal divisions arose within African American communities in the South over

A)whether they should remain in the South.
B)whether they should begin to support Democratic candidates.
C)the possibility that slavery could return to the South.
D)the possibility of editing their own newspapers.

Question 9

The single largest organization for women's political involvement was the

A)American Woman Suffrage Association.
B)National Woman Suffrage Association.
C)Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
D)Settlement House Movement.

Question 10

In Chicago,Hull House women were instrumental in establishing the nation's first

A)juvenile justice system.
B)soup kitchen.
C)adoption center.
D)preschool.

Question 11

The initial emphasis of Jane Addams's Hull House was to

A)work toward better housing for poor immigrants.
B)help feed the urban poor.
C)offer programs in music,literature,and history to neighborhood poor.
D)provide daycare work for the working poor.

Question 12

Which group tended to serve more than any other in city government?

A)factory owners
B)businessmen
C)saloonkeepers
D)union leaders

Question 13

Tammany Hall was

A)Chicago's Democratic machine.
B)New York's Democratic machine.
C)Chicago's Republican machine.
D)New York's Republican machine.

Question 14

During the latter part of the nineteenth century,the federal government

A)worked against big business to prevent them from building monopolies.
B)passed many laws in their attempt to regulate economic activity.
C)took a hands-off approach to the economy.
D)worked closely with big business to help them grow.

Question 15

The role of the political machine was generally to

A)advertise the policies of a candidate.
B)provide charity for new immigrants.
C)dispense jobs and food to the urban poor in exchange for votes.
D)organize political rallies and parades.

Question 16

Joseph Pulitzer's New York World became the first newspaper to cover national politics,with an emphasis on

A)economic news.
B)scandals and corruption.
C)foreign policy.
D)election news.

Question 17

Political clubs were typically all of the following EXCEPT

A)organized by social or ethnic group.
B)centered around a factory or business.
C)models of democracy.
D)expensive for political parties to maintain.

Question 18

All of the following were key in the political world of the Gilded Age EXCEPT

A)the saloon.
B)the partisan press.
C)parades.
D)candidate policies.

Question 19

Since the 1850s until the 1880s,most American newspapers were

A)aligned with one of the major political parties.
B)focused exclusively on scandal.
C)committed to representing both sides of issues.
D)independent of political influence.

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of politics during the Gilded Age?

A)low voter turnout
B)many southern blacks participating in voting
C)fierce party loyalty
D)women working within the political system

Question 21

The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

A)established a tax on goods intended for sale transported across state lines.
B)arranged for the return of some fraudulently acquired land back to the federal government.
C)laid the groundwork for federal regulation of the railroad industry.
D)specified that states could not regulate interstate railroads.

Question 22

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 made monopolizing an offense

A)and led to the strengthening of trade unions in the federal courts.
B)but was nullified by the Interstate Commerce Act.
C)but provided no means for enforcement.
D)and proved an effective means of curbing the abuses of big business.

Question 23

The Haymarket Affair led to

A)the success of the Great Southwestern Strike.
B)a new nativist movement.
C)a strengthening of the eight-hour movement.
D)the hiring of more immigrant workers,who would cause less disruption.

Question 24

Opposition to monopolies came from

A)middle-class Americans.
B)farmers.
C)industrial workers.
D)All these answers are correct.

Question 25

In the 1880s,there were almost ________ industrial and agricultural strikes.

A)1,000
B)100,000
C)100
D)10,000

Question 26

The Stalwarts and Half-Breeds were

A)Democratic Party supporters.
B)political clubs established to help minorities.
C)factions of the Republican Party.
D)civil service reform groups.

Question 27

After the election of 1884,the term "Mugwump" came to refer to

A)one who supported the party of "rum,Romanism,and rebellion."
B)one who had broken the rule of party loyalty in voting.
C)a politician that had fathered an illegitimate child.
D)a politician guilty of corruption.

Question 28

The Civil Service Act of 1883 required,for some positions,federal job seekers to

A)work through lobbyists in order to qualify.
B)be elected to serve by a congressional commission.
C)take a competitive examination.
D)prove their competency with a record of their previous work experience.

Question 29

The leading anarchist city was

A)Chicago.
B)New York.
C)Boston.
D)Philadelphia.

Question 30

The essence of the spoils system was that

A)laws were passed that benefitted contributors.
B)government positions went to party supporters.
C)public interest drove policy making.
D)newspapers reported only what was helpful to support their favored party.

Question 31

Which of the following was NOT one of the Ocala Demands made by farmers in 1890?

A)end the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
B)abolish private national banks
C)end the high tariff
D)eliminate state subtreasuries

Question 32

Which of the following became the most visible practice in the way Congress performed its legislative duty during the Gilded Age?

A)being lobbied
B)debating bills
C)addressing the chamber with speeches
D)hearing citizen testimonies

Question 33

The two issues on which the two political parties genuinely differed were

A)women's suffrage and the money supply.
B)the tariff and the money supply.
C)women's suffrage and foreign policy.
D)the tariff and foreign policy.

Question 34

Which of the following does NOT accurately describe the Knights of Labor?

A)broad social reform platform
B)critical of the wage labor system
C)preferred boycotts over strikes
D)welcomed all workers,regardless of ethnicity

Question 35

The next major financial panic after those of the 1880s occurred in

A)1890
B)1899
C)1896
D)1893

Question 36

The Populist Party was formed in 1892 from all of the following EXCEPT

A)Pinkertons.
B)western middle-class reformers.
C)trade unionists.
D)farmers.

Question 37

The beneficiaries of America's first federal welfare system were

A)the urban poor.
B)immigrants.
C)African Americans.
D)veterans.

Question 38

The central issue of the election of 1888 was

A)the tariff.
B)foreign policy.
C)farm prices.
D)interstate commerce.

Question 39

In the election of 1892,most white voters were solidly Democratic,largely because

A)they perceived Populists as too anti-business.
B)Democratic leaders warned of "Negro supremacy" and intimidated voters at the polls.
C)they knew that most black voters would support the Populist Party.
D)they trusted their party to bring about racial justice.

Question 40

Farmers' Alliances intended to

A)isolate farms from communication and transportation networks.
B)stop machinery from taking over the farming industry.
C)introduce a middleman through cooperatives in order to improve sales.
D)None of these answers is correct.

Question 41

President Cleveland blamed the depression on

A)greenbackism.
B)the Sherman Antitrust Act.
C)the Sherman Silver Act.
D)the Gold StandarD.

Question 42

Which of the following was NOT one of the accusations made against Populists that contributed to their demise?

A)that they were pro-Jewish
B)that they were wide-eyed fanatics
C)that they were anti-urban
D)that they were unsophisticated hayseeds

Question 43

Summarize the various ways in which women were involved in politics.What were the issues that concerned them,and through what organizations did they find expression?

Question 44

Analyze the rise and influence of the Populist Party.

Question 45

Describe the political culture of the Gilded Age.Who was involved? In what ways did they participate? What was the role of lobbying?

Question 46

The Pullman Strike was ended by the federal government because

A)it was driven by dangerous anarchists.
B)its leader was Eugene Debs,who was promoting socialism.
C)it was illegally delaying mail delivery by the U.S.Postal Service.
D)the losses incurred by investors were threatening a stock market crash.

Question 47

Examine the Panic of 1893,including its causes and President Cleveland's solution.Also address the repercussions of both this depression and Cleveland's solution.

Question 48

Discuss the new racial order that developed in the South in the late nineteenth century.

Question 49

President Cleveland's solution to the receding gold supply was successful

A)but his public image was damaged by the association with a "robber baron."
B)but his public image was damaged by the perceived dependency on foreign investment.
C)and served to strengthen his public image.
D)and guaranteed his candidacy for the next presidential election.

Question 50

Identify and explain the major political issues of the Gilded Age,then compare and contrast the views held by Republicans and Democrats on these issues.

Question 51

What were the sources of political dissent during the Gilded Age? Discuss the cooperative networks,and the federal efforts,that emerged to address them.

Question 52

McKinley's platform in the 1896 election included all of the following EXCEPT

A)free silver.
B)women's rights.
C)industrial and banking interests.
D)the threat of mob violence.

Question 53

A collection of statutes that became known as the Jim Crow laws

A)established poll taxes.
B)made lynching a legal and permissible activity.
C)instituted literacy tests at polling places.
D)legalized segregation.

Question 54

In the election of 1896,the Democrats co-opted the Populist votes with their stance on

A)immigration.
B)the eight-hour workday.
C)free silver.
D)civil rights.

Question 55

Coxey's Army marched on Washington,demanding

A)advanced pension payments.
B)government relief from unemployment.
C)stricter immigration laws.
D)the return to free silver.

Question 56

House Republicans attempted pass a voters' rights bill to protect black voters in the South,but it was defeated in the Senate by

A)western Republicans.
B)Democrats.
C)neither Democrats nor western Republicans.
D)Democrats and western Republicans.

Question 57

In the 1896 Plessy v.Ferguson decision,the Supreme Court ruled that cities and states had

A)no right to segregate public amenities.
B)the legal right to segregate public amenities.
C)no right to require poll taxes and literacy tests.
D)the legal right to require poll taxes and literacy tests.