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

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.

The presidents of the late nineteenth century have been referred to as merely "custodial," that is, nonassertive and "forgettable." Is this true? If so, why?

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

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Civil Rights Cases (1883)

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Crédit Mobilier scandal

Which of the following was not among the regional groups that formed the solid political base of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century?

Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from

President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his

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

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

President Cleveland's hostility to silver and silver-backed currency was driven primarily by his fear that

Was Grover Cleveland's gold deal with J.P. Morgan justified? Why or why not?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Adlai E. Stevenson

During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was/were

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Colored Farmers' National Alliance

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"waving the bloody shirt"

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Winfield S. Hancock

One historian claims that in the Gilded Age, "Democrats were separated from Republicans more by accident of national origin, geography, history, and emotion than by economic issues." Elaborate.

The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes began with