Quiz: Chapter 23

Mark Twain's term for the glittering-surface, deeply corrupt era after the Civil War was:

• a. The Gilded Age
• b. The Progressive Era
• c. The Era of Good Feelings
• d. The New Deal era

The Republican faction that defended the traditional patronage system was known as the:

• a. Half-Breeds
• b. Stalwarts
• c. Mugwumps
• d. Populists

The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved:

• a. Whiskey tax fraud in the Treasury
• b. Union Pacific insiders overcharging the railroad and bribing congressmen
• c. A banking panic in New York
• d. A dispute over Chinese immigration

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in:

• a. Hayes becoming president and the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
• b. The purchase of Alaska
• c. The passage of the Pendleton Act
• d. The formation of the Populist Party

President James Garfield was assassinated in 1881 by:

• a. A Confederate sympathizer
• b. Charles Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker
• c. A labor union organizer
• d. A Populist Party member

The Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883) was designed to:

• a. Lower the protective tariff
• b. Require competitive exams for many federal jobs, curbing patronage
• c. Regulate railroad rates
• d. Break up monopolistic trusts

Grover Cleveland's central political crusade as president was against:

• a. Labor unions
• b. The high protective tariff
• c. Chinese immigration
• d. Civil service reform

The "Billion-Dollar Congress" of 1890, under President Benjamin Harrison, passed the:

• a. Sherman Antitrust Act and McKinley Tariff
• b. Pendleton Civil Service Act
• c. Fourteenth Amendment
• d. Interstate Commerce Act

The Farmers' Alliance grew into which political party in 1892?

• a. The Greenback Party
• b. The Populist (People's) Party
• c. The Progressive Party
• d. The Know-Nothing Party

Grover Cleveland is unique among presidents for having:

• a. Served two non-consecutive terms
• b. Never won the popular vote
• c. Been impeached
• d. Served three terms

The Whiskey Ring scandal exposed corruption involving:

• a. Railroad land grants
• b. Distillers and Treasury officials evading liquor taxes
• c. Steel tariffs
• d. Silver mining claims

Reform-minded Republicans who bolted their party in 1884 to support Cleveland were nicknamed:

• a. Stalwarts
• b. Half-Breeds
• c. Mugwumps
• d. Copperheads