Question 1

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

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A) many had put their savings in the Freedman's Savings and Trust, only to see it vanish due to bad investments by the savings bank. 
B) they did not set aside significant amounts of money for savings, preferring to spend or invest almost every dollar that they earned. 
C) mobs of unemployed workers took out their frustrations through violence against blacks. 
D) they lost what little money they owned to directly investing in speculation schemes that had gone bankrupt. 
E) None of these choices are correct. 
A) many had put their savings in the Freedman's Savings and Trust, only to see it vanish due to bad investments by the savings bank. 
B) they did not set aside significant amounts of money for savings, preferring to spend or invest almost every dollar that they earned. 
C) mobs of unemployed workers took out their frustrations through violence against blacks. 
D) they lost what little money they owned to directly investing in speculation schemes that had gone bankrupt. 
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 2

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

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Horatio Seymour (1810–1886) was an Ameri

Question 3

During the mid to late nineteenth century, Chinese women

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A) did not emigrate to the United States at all. 
B) settled mostly on the East Coast. 
C) outnumbered Chinese men as immigrants to the United States. 
D) were very few in number, and most became prostitutes. 
E) competed with Irish and black women for jobs in domestic service. 
A) did not emigrate to the United States at all. 
B) settled mostly on the East Coast. 
C) outnumbered Chinese men as immigrants to the United States. 
D) were very few in number, and most became prostitutes. 
E) competed with Irish and black women for jobs in domestic service.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-James A. Garfield

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James A. Garfield was the 20th President

Question 5

List what appears to you to have been the requirements for election to high political office in the 1870s and 1880s. How did these seemingly extra-Constitutional requirements affect the quality, preparedness, and priorities of those candidates for high political office during this period?

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In the 1870s and 1880s, the requirements

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Gilded Age

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The Gilded Age refers to a period in Uni

Question 7

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War

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A) the push for social, political, and economic reforms intensified and gained momentum in and out of state, local, and the federal government. 
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. 
A) the push for social, political, and economic reforms intensified and gained momentum in and out of state, local, and the federal government. 
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.

Question 8

Was the white economic discrimination and oppression, politically exclusionary legislation, and organized violence directed against Chinese immigrants in the 1880s motivated primarily by a) racial animosity, b) white fear of Chinese labor competition in the West, or c) by a roughly equal combination of both elements? Cite specific historical examples in the text to support your argument.

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The white economic discrimination and op

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Horace Greeley

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Horace Greeley was a prominent American

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Chester A. Arthur

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Chester A. Arthur served as the 21st Pre

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Tweed Ring

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The Tweed Ring, also known as the "Tamma

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-pork-barrel bills

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Pork-barrel bills are legislative approp

Question 13

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

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Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902) was an

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-McKinley Tariff

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The McKinley Tariff, officially known as

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-grandfather clause

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The grandfather clause was a legal or co

Question 16

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

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The Civil Rights Act of 1875, also known

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Half-Breed

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The term "Half-Breed" was historically s

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-James B. Weaver

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James Baird Weaver (1833–1912) was an Am

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"cheap-money"

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"Cheap money" refers to a situation wher

Question 20

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

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Racial issues and ethnic clashes, includ

Exam 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

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

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

During the mid to late nineteenth century, Chinese women

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -James A. Garfield

List what appears to you to have been the requirements for election to high political office in the 1870s and 1880s. How did these seemingly extra-Constitutional requirements affect the quality, preparedness, and priorities of those candidates for high political office during this period?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Gilded Age

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Horace Greeley

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Chester A. Arthur

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Tweed Ring

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -pork-barrel bills

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -McKinley Tariff

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -grandfather clause

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Half-Breed

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -James B. Weaver

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"cheap-money"

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

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The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775

The Duel for North America, 1608-1763

The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

America Secedes From the Empire, 1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840

Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

Girding for War: the North and the South, 1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1920-1929

The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920-1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933-1939

Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933-1941

America in World War Ii 1941-1945

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

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