Social Studies Section 1

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Question 1: ___ thought that politics in the Gilded Age were ugly and corrupt.

	William Marcy Tweed
	Henry Adams
	Mark Twain

Question 2: What made the rise of bosses possible?

	The rapid growth of cities
	The democratic congress
	The democratic senate

Question 3: What were political leaders who controlled elections through bribery and payoffs called?

	Democrats
	Bosses
	Political machines

Question 4: The boss system offered _____ jobs and social mobilities.

	African Americans
	Immigrants
	Indian

Question 5: An organization that guaranteed votes at election time through both legal and illegal methods was a?

	Democrat
	Boss
	Political machine

Question 6: How did political machines get their candidate elected?

	Blackmail, bribery
	They didn't get their candidate elected
	Bribed citizens and counters, screwy ballots

Question 7: Who was New York City's boss?

	William Marcy Tweed
	Charles Dudley Warner
	In it For the Sports
	Grover Cleveland

Question 8: What was New York City's widely known political machine?

	Credit Mobilier
	Empire State Building
	Tammany Hall

Question 9: Whose election was widely regarded as corrupt?

	Chester Arthur
	Grover Cleveland
	Ulysses S. Grant

Question 10: Government revenue officials who took bribes from whiskey distillers in order to avoid paying taxes took part in the?

	Democratic Rebellion
	Whiskey Ring
	Credit Mobilier

Question 11: What construction company started by the Union Pacific Railroad sold shares to members of Congress who handled land grants?

	Whiskey Ring
	Niagara Movement
	Credit Mobilier

Question 12: What was the republican candidate who had a reputation for political honesty and won?

	Rutherford B. Hayes
	James Garfield
	Samuel J. Tilden

Question 13: Who was the republican president who was shot at a train station?

	James Garfield
	Chester Arthur
	William Marcy Tweed

Question 14: Who shot James Garfield?

	Charles Guiteau
	Chester Arthur
	Samuel J. Tilden

Question 15: What were republican reformers that left the party because of corruption called?

	Democrats
	Big chiefs
	Mugwumps

Question 16: Who won the election of 1884?

	Grover Cleveland
	Benjamin Harrison
	Chester Arthur

Question 17: Which president controlled inflation and monopolies?

	Grover Cleveland
	Benjamin Harrison
	John Quincy Adams

Question 18: Who was president after Harrison?

	Harrison
	Cleveland
	Arthur

Question 19: Who won the election of 1896?

	William Jennings Bryan
	Barrack Obama
	William McKinley

Question 20: President Arthur responded to reformers' demands by supporting the?

	Pendleton Civil Service Act
	Sherman Antitrust Act
	Tea Tax

Question 21: Who doubled government jobs?

	Chester Arthur
	Grover Cleveland
	George Bush I

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