Chapter 10 The Gilded Age   1. Why did corruption in the federal government spread during the Ulysses S. Grant administration?     A) Grant chose honest but inept people to fill the federal jobs around him.     B) President Grant was a poor judge of the character of the people he hired to work for him.     C) Grant himself was dishonest.     D) Grant founded the Credit Mobilier company.   2. People who were hired to represent a company or a special interest group before the legislators were called __________     A) political machines.     B) townships.     C) wards.     D) lobbyists.   3. Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the Republican Party during the second half of the 1800s?     A) the "Solid South"     B) liberal land policies     C) old immigration     D) high tariffs   4. Which of the following statements is true about the Democratic Party in the second half of the 1800s?     A) The Democratic Party favored a higher tariff.     B) The Democratic Party believed the less government the better.     C) The Democratic Party held the presidency four times from 1865 through 1900.     D) The Democratic Party controlled most of the votes in the North.   5. Who was held up as the "patron saint" of the Republican Party?     A) George Washington     B) Thomas Jefferson     C) Abraham Lincoln     D) Andrew Jackson   6. When Rutherford B. Hayes became president, he refused to sign otherwise acceptable legislation if Congress had attached a rider to it. What was a rider?     A) an appropriations bill     B) an irrelevant amendment     C) another separate bill     D) a bill that Hayes disapproved of   7. Who were the Stalwarts?     A) a group of Democrats who opposed civil service reform     B) a group of Republicans who opposed civil service reform     C) a group of Republicans who opposed the reelection of Ulysses S. Grant     D) a group of Democrats who opposed the reelection of Ulysses S. Grant   8. What problem in government was the Pendleton Act passed to correct?     A) the spoils system     B) high tariffs     C) the assassination of public officials     D) the line of succession to the presidency   9. For what work is Susan B. Anthony most famous?     A) crusading for civil reform     B) crusading for woman suffrage     C) teaching     D) temperance movement   10. Why did Grover Cleveland use his veto power more than any other president of the United States?     A) Cleveland was unskilled in political maneuvering.     B) Cleveland felt that many veterans' pensions were fraudulent.     C) Cleveland was against civil service reform.     D) Cleveland came into office with a strong understanding of most national issues, but disagreed often with Congress.   11. Which group of Americans favored a reduction in the high tariffs on imports?     A) Halfbreeds     B) protectionists     C) free-traders     D) Mugwumps   12. Which president won the 1888 election running as a protectionist candidate?     A) James Garfield     B) Henry Clay     C) Grover Cleveland     D) Benjamin Harrison   13. The term "antebellum" refers to the period __________     A) after 1900.     B) before the Civil War.     C) after the Civil War.     D) from 1865 to 1900.   14. A European-influenced literary movement that strove for accurate representation was known as __________     A) realism.     B) local color.     C) antebellum.     D) yellow journalism.   15. Which of the following was an artist who utilized the idea of realism?     A) Mary Cassatt     B) Winslow Homer     C) William Dean Howells     D) Stephen Crane