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Social Studies Section 1

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The quiz is developed on: 20.10.2009

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

Henry Adams

Mark Twain

William Marcy Tweed

Question 2: What made the rise of bosses possible?

The democratic senate

The democratic congress

The rapid growth of cities

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

Bosses

Democrats

Political machines

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

Indian

African Americans

Immigrants

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?

They didn't get their candidate elected

Blackmail, bribery

Bribed citizens and counters, screwy ballots

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

Charles Dudley Warner

Grover Cleveland

William Marcy Tweed

In it For the Sports

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

Tammany Hall

Empire State Building

Credit Mobilier

Question 9: Whose election was widely regarded as corrupt?

Grover Cleveland

Ulysses S. Grant

Chester Arthur

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

Whiskey Ring

Democratic Rebellion

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

Credit Mobilier

Niagara Movement

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?

Chester Arthur

James Garfield

William Marcy Tweed

Question 14: Who shot James Garfield?

Chester Arthur

Charles Guiteau

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?

Chester Arthur

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

Question 17: Which president controlled inflation and monopolies?

Benjamin Harrison

John Quincy Adams

Grover Cleveland

Question 18: Who was president after Harrison?

Cleveland

Harrison

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?

Tea Tax

Sherman Antitrust Act

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Question 21: Who doubled government jobs?

Grover Cleveland

George Bush I

Chester Arthur

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