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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.
 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?
 Political machines
 Democrats
 Bosses

Question 4: The boss system offered _____ jobs and social mobilities.
 Immigrants
 Indian
 African Americans

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

Question 6: How did political machines get their candidate elected?
 Blackmail, bribery
 Bribed citizens and counters, screwy ballots
 They didn't get their candidate elected

Question 7: Who was New York City's boss?
 Grover Cleveland
 William Marcy Tweed
 In it For the Sports
 Charles Dudley Warner

Question 8: What was New York City's widely known political machine?
 Tammany Hall
 Credit Mobilier
 Empire State Building

Question 9: Whose election was widely regarded as corrupt?
 Chester Arthur
 Ulysses S. Grant
 Grover Cleveland

Question 10: Government revenue officials who took bribes from whiskey distillers in order to avoid paying taxes took part in the?
 Whiskey Ring
 Credit Mobilier
 Democratic Rebellion

Question 11: What construction company started by the Union Pacific Railroad sold shares to members of Congress who handled land grants?
 Credit Mobilier
 Niagara Movement
 Whiskey Ring

Question 12: What was the republican candidate who had a reputation for political honesty and won?
 James Garfield
 Rutherford B. Hayes
 Samuel J. Tilden

Question 13: Who was the republican president who was shot at a train station?
 James Garfield
 William Marcy Tweed
 Chester Arthur

Question 14: Who shot James Garfield?
 Samuel J. Tilden
 Chester Arthur
 Charles Guiteau

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

Question 16: Who won the election of 1884?
 Chester Arthur
 Benjamin Harrison
 Grover Cleveland

Question 17: Which president controlled inflation and monopolies?
 Benjamin Harrison
 John Quincy Adams
 Grover Cleveland

Question 18: Who was president after Harrison?
 Arthur
 Cleveland
 Harrison

Question 19: Who won the election of 1896?
 Barrack Obama
 William McKinley
 William Jennings Bryan

Question 20: President Arthur responded to reformers' demands by supporting the?
 Pendleton Civil Service Act
 Tea Tax
 Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 21: Who doubled government jobs?
 Grover Cleveland
 George Bush I
 Chester Arthur

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