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Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Tom Watson

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Sherman Silver Purchase Act

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Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Mugwumps

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Mugwumps were a group of Republican poli...

Question 4

In the late nineteenth century,those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters

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A)   of the gory memories of the Civil War and the Republican party's role in the Union's victory.
B)   that the Civil War had been caused by the election of a Republican president.
C)   that Republicans had reformed the corrupt radical regimes in the Reconstruction South.
D)   that radical Republicans catered to freed slaves during Reconstruction.
E)   of Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 5

In the 1896 case of Plessy v.Ferguson,the Supreme Court ruled that

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A)   African Americans could be denied the right to vote.
B)   segregation was unconstitutional.
C)   "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.
D)   the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to African Americans.
E)   literacy tests for voting were constitutional.F) All of the above
G) B) and C)

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Thomas Nast

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Question 7

In the aftermath of the Civil War

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A)   the population of the United States declined.
B)   Americans retained a strong sense of idealistic sacrifice.
C)   the North developed a strong sense of moral superiority.
D)   concern for racial questions took precedence over economics.
E)   waste, speculation, and corruption afflicted both business and government.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 8

President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of

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A)   vetoing the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act.
B)   using federal troops to suppress Populist demonstrations.
C)   taking the United States off the gold standard.
D)   borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate.
E)   wasting the federal surplus on pork-barrel spending.F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Horatio Seymour

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Question 10

In the late nineteenth century,the Republican party was associated with the cultural values of

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A)   religions derived from the Puritan tradition.
B)   strict codes of personal morality.
C)   toleration of differences.
D)   government involvement in moral and economic affairs.
E)   belief in a common set of American moral values.F) All of the above
G) B) and C)

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"Redeemers"

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Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Denis Kearney

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Question 13

American politics in the late nineteenth century has been referred to as the "politics of equilibrium." Why? List some consequences of this equilibrium in the party system.

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Question 14

As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873,debtors strongly advocated

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A)   a return to gold as the only form of American money.
B)   establishment of a federally regulated system of savings and loan banks.
C)   the appointment of farmers and workers to the Treasury Department.
D)   rapid growth in federal expenditures on public works.
E)   inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency.F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 15

The absence of children in largely all-male Chinese immigrant communities meant that

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A)   the economic benefits of child labor were largely absent.
B)   the cultural and language assimilation fostered by children were harder to attain.
C)   many Chinese organizations sought to bring in adopted children from China.
D)   white social work agencies were slower to become involved with Chinese communities.
E)   education was seldom a priority in Chinese communities.F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 16

All of the following are true statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1875 except

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A)   it marked a last gasp of the congressional radical Republicans.
B)   it was supposed to guarantee equal rights in voting and access to education for blacks and whites.
C)   its purpose was to ensure equal accommodations in public places.
D)   it prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection.
E)   much of its content was deemed unconstitutional in the Civil Rights cases of 1883.F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

List what appears to you to have been the requirements for election to high political office in the 1870s and 1880s.

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Question 18

When he was president,Grover Cleveland's strong belief in a laissez-faire approach to government gained the support of

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A)   former Confederates in the South.
B)   veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic.
C)   farmers.
D)   workers.
E)   businesspeople.F) All of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 19

The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) was

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A)   Cleveland, Hayes, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, and Garfield.
B)   Garfield, Hayes, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, and Cleveland.
C)   Cleveland, Garfield, Arthur, Hayes, Harrison, and Cleveland.
D)   Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and Cleveland.
E)   Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, Cleveland, Arthur, and Cleveland.F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-People's Party (Populists)

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Horatio Seymour

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