Question 1

The Chinese word tong means

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A)   criminal organization.
B)   meeting hall.
C)   labor union.
D)   family.
E)   cooking utensil.

Question 2

Blacks who violated the Jim Crow laws or other elements of the South's racial code were often subject to

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A)   prosecution in federal courts.
B)   ostracizing by their own community.
C)   criticism from both white and black churches.
D)   losing their case in the Supreme Court.
E)   lynching.

Question 3

The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was

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A)   civil-service reform.
B)   the big trust question.
C)   the currency question.
D)   foreign policy.
E)   tariff policy.

Question 4

During the Gilded Age,the Democrats and the Republicans

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A)   had few significant policy differences.
B)   agreed on currency policy but not the tariff.
C)   disagreed primarily over the power of the federal government.
D)   held similar views on all economic issues except for civil-service reform.
E)   were divided over silver vs. gold currency.

Question 5

The fundamental attitude of Hayes and other Republican administrations toward labor agitation was

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A)   strong support for the railroads and other business in their efforts to crush labor organizing.
B)   attempts to establish the federal government as a neutral arbiter between business and labor.
C)   support for expanded immigration from China and Latin America.
D)   to support reasonable regulation of business.
E)   to try to enlist farmers as a political counterbalance to industrial laborers.

Question 6

With the Pendleton Act prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers,politicians increasingly sought money from

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A)   new immigrants.
B)   contractors doing business with the federal government.
C)   factory workers and farmers.
D)   foreign contributors.
E)   big corporations.

Question 7

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

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Question 8

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

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A)   Jim Fisk
B)   "Black Friday"
C)   Jay Gould
D)   "Ohio Idea"
E)   Wall Street gold market

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Civil Rights Act of 1875

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Question 10

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

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A)   reformers.
B)   incorruptible.
C)   party loyalists.
D)   political independents.
E)   wealthy and well educated.

Question 11

The presidency of Rutherford B.Hayes began with

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A)   a national movement for civil service reform.
B)   increased overseas expansion.
C)   sharp class conflict and a national railroad strike.
D)   public demands for positive immigration reform.
E)   improved race relations in the South and the West.

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-crop-lien system

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Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Ulysses S.Grant

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Question 14

The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on

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A)   who would be Speaker of the House.
B)   the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
C)   Samuel Tilden's association with corrupt politicians.
D)   President Grant's campaign for a third term.
E)   failure to use the secret Australian ballot in some places.

Question 15

How did racial issues─including Chinese immigration─affect economic and political developments of the Gilded Age?

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Racial issues, including Chinese immigra...

Question 16

The conservative white Bourbon Democrats of the South largely succeeded in crushing the Populist revolt by

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A)   demonstrating that Populist economic policies would harm Southern cotton interests.
B)   charging that the Populist were de facto allies of the hated Republicans.
C)   bribing the Populist leadership to betray the rank and file.
D)   persuading black farmers that the Populists really did not have their interests at heart.
E)   appealing to poor white farmers' antiblack racial feelings against their economic interests.

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-United States vs.Wong Kim Ark

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Question 18

In late-nineteenth century elections,Democrats could generally count on the support of

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A)   the white South.
B)   northern industrial cities.
C)   immigrant groups.
D)   the Midwest.
E)   Catholics and Lutherans.

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Grover Cleveland

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Question 20

Why was there such a notable lowering of ethical standards in American politics and business following the high idealism of the Civil War?

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There are several factors that contribut...

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