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100
Administrative subdivision of a county
What is a township?
100
A sport that was truly an American invention.
What is baseball?
100
Assumed right of an elected offical to control political appointments to unelected positions
What is patronage?
100
First Democratic President that was first elected in 1856.
Who was Grover Cleveland?
100
thievery in public office
What is graft?
200
Novelist who wrote about his boyhood home on the Mississippi River?
Who was Mark Twain?
200
a legislation that classified government jobs and made them obtainable only by persons who passed a qualifying exam
What was the Pendleton Act?
200
A term to describe the pre-Civil War era.
What is antebellum?
200
Because the ink was yellow
How did "yellow journalism" get its name?
200
Cincinatti Red Stockings
What was the name of the first professional baseball team?
300
An increase in leisure time
What was one of the outcomes of the post-Civil War industrialization?
300
A realist artist who painted ordinary people in everyday situations
Who was Winslow Homer?
300
Taking care of the needs of their voters
How did politicians earn teh loyalty of their citizens?
300
A political cartoonist who brought out the corruption of the Tweed Ring
What was Thomas Nast?
300
Sensationalism
What did Joseph Pulitzer's popular "yellow press" specialize in?
400
A group of reform-minded Republicans who supported the Democrats in the election of 1884
Who were Mugwumps?
400
A party linked political organization that maintained power by contolling votes, courts and the police.
What is a political machine?
400
Legislation that classified governemnt jobs and made them obtainable only by persons who passed a qualifying exam
What was the McKinly Tariff?
400
The free-traders
Who held the idea that the protective tariff was unfair government interference with the normal laws of supply and demand
400
Realist writers in the late 1800s
Who wanted to take a clsoe look at people's lives and problems
500
A group of Republican machine politicians who opposed civil service reform
Who were Stalwarts?
500
An example of corruption on the national level
What was the Credit Mobilier scandal?
500
by giving handouts to special-interests groups
How did the "Billion Dollar Congress" create a treasury deficit?
500
The expansion of higher education
What was one of the most important developments in education during the late 19th century?
500
The spoils system
What did the federal government began to shift away from with the enactment of the Pendleton Act?
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