Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

The Whiskey Ring was a scandal that took

Question 2

For one of only a few times in its history,the treasury showed a surplus in the 1880s.Why was this a problem?

Accepted Answer

In the 1880s, the United States Treasury

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Roscoe Conkling

Accepted Answer

Roscoe Conkling (1829–1888) was a promin

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Winfield Scott Hancock was a prominent f

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Horace Greeley was a prominent American

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Soft money, also known as cheap money, r

Question 7

One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to

Accepted Answer

A)  dig for gold. 
B)  work on the East Coast. 
C)  replace the newly freed slaves in the South. 
D)  buy their own farms. 
E)  All of these 
A)  dig for gold. 
B)  work on the East Coast. 
C)  replace the newly freed slaves in the South. 
D)  buy their own farms. 
E)  All of these

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Jay Gould

Accepted Answer

Jay Gould was a prominent American railr

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

The term "Stalwart" refers to a faction

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Plessy v.Ferguson

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark United

Question 11

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.

Accepted Answer

During the Gilded Age, which lasted from

Question 12

The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s

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A)  were all won by Republicans. 
B)  revolved primarily around the charismatic personalities running for the presidency. 
C)  were rarely close. 
D)  usually involved sharp partisan differences over issues like currency policy and civil-service reform. 
E)  aroused enormous turnouts among voters even though there were few significant issues. 
A)  were all won by Republicans. 
B)  revolved primarily around the charismatic personalities running for the presidency. 
C)  were rarely close. 
D)  usually involved sharp partisan differences over issues like currency policy and civil-service reform. 
E)  aroused enormous turnouts among voters even though there were few significant issues.

Question 13

The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved

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A)  public utility company bribes. 
B)  Bureau of Indian Affairs payoffs. 
C)  railroad construction kickbacks. 
D)  evasion of excise taxes on distilled liquor. 
E)  manipulating the Wall Street stock market. 
A)  public utility company bribes. 
B)  Bureau of Indian Affairs payoffs. 
C)  railroad construction kickbacks. 
D)  evasion of excise taxes on distilled liquor. 
E)  manipulating the Wall Street stock market.

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

James Baird Weaver (1833–1912) was an Am

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"Mulligan letters"

Accepted Answer

The "Mulligan letters" refer to a series

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

James A. Garfield was the 20th President

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-spoils system

Accepted Answer

The spoils system, also known as patrona

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

The McKinley Tariff, officially known as

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Benjamin Harrison

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Black Friday

Accepted Answer

Black Friday has multiple historical con

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

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

For one of only a few times in its history,the treasury showed a surplus in the 1880s.Why was this a problem?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Roscoe Conkling

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

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

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

One of the main reasons that the Chinese came to the United States was to

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jay Gould

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Plessy v.Ferguson

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 presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s

The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"Mulligan letters"

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -spoils system

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Benjamin Harrison

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Black Friday

New World Beginnings,33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E.

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 at Home and Abroad,1912-1916

The War to End War,1917-1918

American Life in the "Roaring Twenties",1919-1929

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

The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960

The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968

The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism,1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era,1992-2009

The American People Face a New Century

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