AP US Chapter 23: Gilded Age
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1. How big was the US in 1870? How does that relate to the rest of the world?
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Why was Grant the perfect candidate? What does it mean to “wave the bloody shirt?”
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What was the “Ohio Idea?” What were the results of the 1868 election?
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What was Fisk and Gould’s plan that almost made them very rich?
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How did Tweed make his money? Who was Nast?
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Describe what happened in the Credit Mobilier scandal. Was Grant guilty in any of these scandals?
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What does Plunkett say is the difference between honest and dishonest graft?
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What is the cartoon of Tweed on page 504 trying to say?
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Who were the two sides in the election of 1872. Why might people not been impressed with either candidate? How did the
election turn out?
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What hurt the economy of 1873? Why was there so much of a fight over how much money was printed?
11. What is the difference between a “stalwart” and a “half breed?”
12. Describe the many ways that the election of 1876 was a mess.
13. What was the deal made fro the Compromise of 1877? Why do people call it the End of Reconstruction?
14. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 do?
15. Who were the ‘redeemers?” what is the crop-lien system?
16. What is a Jim Crow law? What did Plessy v Ferguson conclude?
17. Why didn’t the railroad workers’ strike work? Why didn’t the Irish and Chinese seem to get along? What is a “coolie?”
What is a Kearneyite?
18. What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do? What does the 14th Amendment say about the Chinese Americans?
19. Retell the story of the Election of 1880. Why did Garfield’s assassin say he killed the president?
20. What was the positive result of Garfield’s assassination? What did the Civil Service Commission do? What is the purpose
of the Pendleton Act?
21. What was the mud in the 1884 election? What were the results? What’s a “mugwump?”
22. How did Cleveland respond to patronage? How was the Civil War still and issue for Cleveland?
23. Why was the government running a surplus (yes a surplus)? What were Cleveland’s plans for tariffs?
24. Who won and lost the election of 1888?
25. What did Reed do with the ‘Billion Dollar Congress’” money? What happened to tariffs? Why didn’t farmers like this?
26. List the positions of the Populist Party.
27. How did the Populists do in the election of 1892? What hurt them in the South?
28. What happens in the Homestead Strike?
29. Who is elected president in 1892? Why is this unique? What causes the economic downturn in the early 90s?
30. Why did they repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act? What does Bryan have to say about this? What is the role of JP
Morgan?
31. Why do we call these presidents the “forgettable presidents?”
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