Presidents
Name 4 presidents of the Gilded Age.
What is Ulysses S. Grant, 1869 –1877, Republican, Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881, Republican, James A Garfield, 1881, Republican, Chester A. Arthur, 1881-1885, Republican, Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889, 1893-1897, Democrat, Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893, Republican or William McKinley, 1897-1901, Republican
Name of the law passed in Louisiana that prohibited African Americans from sitting in Caucasian designated cars
What is Separate Car Act?
What president was assassinated during this era?
What is James Garfield.
Name the only Democratic President during the Gilded Age?
What is Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889, 1893-1897.
Where was President Garfield shot?
What is in his back at a train station.
Who was President Garfield's Vice president?
What is Chester A. Arthur.
Name the scandal that involved the Union Pacific Railroad creating a shell company to receive kickbacks.
Credit Mobilier
General name of an organization that promised housing, jobs, assistance to immigrants in exchange for votes
What is political machine?
What region favored the Democrat party?
The South
How long was the Gilded Age?
What is 30 years.
Who is the first president to serve two none consecutive terms?
What is Grover Cleveland.
What was the population of the U.S. at the start of the Gilded Age?
39 million
Name of the boss of the largest political machine in New York City that was convicted of fraud
Who is Boss Tweed?
The party that dominated presidential elections in the Gilded Age
What was Republican?
What state was President Cleveland from?
What is New York.
Who assassinated James Garfield?
What is Charles Guiteau.
Scandal in which Jim Fisk and Jay Gould convinced the U.S. treasury to withhold gold reserves until the price rose.
What is corner the gold market?
In 1890, new political party founded to advocate for farmers
What is Populists?
Name two goals of the Democratic Party.
What is state’s rights, limited federal government, lower tariffs
What is a collapse in the economy that lasted 1873 to 1879.
What was the Panic of 1873?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Act that banned an enter group based on ethnicity and competition for low level job.
Chinese Exclusion Act
What does the term Gilded Age mean?
What is “superficial glitter” referring to all the new wealth developed in the 1800’s.
What religions supported Democrats?
What is Catholic, Lutheran, and Jewish.