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The Gilded Age
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1
Two of the most popular sports pastimes in the 1890's were
bowling and hockey
baseball and bicycling
golf and Among Us
football & Risk
2
Which president made significant steps towards civil service reform?
Benjamin Harrison
Roscoe Conkling
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
3
The 1890 McKinley Tariff was
the highest inthe nation's history
passed by overriding Cleveland's veto
a compromise
the lowest in the nation's history
4
Politicians earned the loyalty of their neighborhoods citizens by?
being free of corruption.
taking care of the needs of their voters.
reducing educational opportunities.
involving themselves in national affairs
5
The major issue in the 1884 presidential election between Blaine and Cleveland was
ending Reconstruction
conservation of natural resources
honesty in government
regulation of big business
6
President assassinated by a disappointed office seeker?
McKinley
Harrison
Garfield
Cleveland
7
The most outrageous examples of graft and political corruption took place
during the the Garfield Presidency
among federal office holders
in big city governments
in state legislatures
8
Party-linked political organization that maintained power by controlling votes, courts and police
lobbyist
protectionists
political machine
patronage
9
People who choose to outside their native country
protectionist
mugwump
expatriate
free-trader
10
One of the outcomes of post-Civil War industrialization for some Americans was?
a lack of public cultural activities.
a lack of leisure time.
a decrease in professional sports.
an increase in leisure time.
11
One of the most important developments in education during the late 19th Century was the?
expansion of higher education.
emphasis on the classics.
emphasis on Greek and Roman culture.
resistance to compulsory attendance.
12
Practice of city contractors paying a percentage of their bill back to city officials
kickback
protectionist
free-trader
rider
13
Joseph Pulitzer's popular "yellow press" specializes in
sensationalism
government news
the dime novel
realistic stories
14
Sensational style of content of certain newspapers
realism
free-trading
local color
yellow journalism
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local-color novelist who wrote about his boyhood home on the Mississippi River
Grover Cleveland
Thomas Nast
Mark Twain
Winslow Homer
16
A Mugwump is ________.
a moderate Stalwart
a liberal Democrat
a former member of the Republican Party
a supporter of the spoils system
17
Thievery in public office
antebellum
free-trader
graft
patronage
18
Realist writers in the late 1800's
developed sentimental themes
wanted to take a closer look at people's lives
strove to capture the romance of vanishing traditions
wrote about the prewar South
19
Southern "local-color" writers mainly described
expatriates
prewar ways of life
real people's lives
the difficulties of Union soldiers
20
The initial goal of the land-grant colleges aided by the 1862 Morrill Act was
founding law and medical schools
classical studies
agricultural and mechanical arts
scientific research
21
The "Billion-Dollar Congress"
suggested to put Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill.
gave public land to state universities
turned a treasury surplus into a deficit
printed $100 billion in paper money
22
Mark Twain’s Gilded Age is a reference to
the Republican Party
the corrupt politics of the post-Civil War era
the populist movement
conditions in the South in the pre-Civil War era
23
With the enactment of the Pendleton Act in 1883, the federal government began to shift away from?
the spoils system
the Gilded Age
machine politics
protectionism
24
The powerful spoils system of government changed
when protectionists gained power
after Congress passed the Pendleton Act
during Grant's presidency
when Boss Tweed was driven from office
25
An example of corruption on the national level?
the Credit Mobilier scandal
Standard Oil bribing the Pennsylvania legislature
the Tweed Ring
Tammany Hall
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The "Billion-Dollar Congress" created a treasury deficit by
making poor investments in foreign business.
building infrastructure through special-interest groups
paying back Civil War debts
buying land to give to Civil War vets
