Exam 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

Despite the lack of national political issues, Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issues like

President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because

The political developments of the l890s were largely shaped by

In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

The railroad strike of 1877 was the first major national labor union work stoppage. What did the strike, and President Hayes's response, reveal about the new American industrial economy? What did the result of the strike reveal about the power of the labor movement during this period in relation to the railroads and about the influence of government intervention on behalf of big business?

How did racial issues and ethnic clashes, including those involving Chinese immigration, affect economic and political developments of the Gilded Age?

The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated

Identify and state the historical significance of Ulysses S. Grant.

In the late 19^th century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters

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

One result of Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s was

Black Americans were hard hit by the gloom times of the depression years of the mid 1870s because

Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise in the 1890s of the pro-silver political leader

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

The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved

Identify and state the historical significance of William McKinley.

Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from

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

American politics in the late 19^th century has been referred to as the "politics of equilibrium." Why? List some consequences of this equilibrium in the party system.

Compare and contrast the Democratic and Republican parties of the late 1800s in terms of their leadership, their position on issues, and the constituencies to whom they appealed.