Author Question: Why did Charles J. Guiteau shoot President Garfield? A) He had been denied a government job. B) ... (Read 68 times)

wenmo · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

President Garfields assassination contributed to the passage of the __________.

A) Edmunds Act
B) Chinese Exclusion Act
C) Pendleton Act
D) Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 2

In 1883, the Supreme Court set back the cause of blacks civil rights by __________.

A) declaring the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
B) offering a narrow interpretation of the Fifteenth Amendment
C) affirming the ruling in the Dred Scott case
D) ruling that convict-lease programs were constitutional

Question 3

Which of the following led to unemployment among California white manufacturing workers in the 1870s?

A) the Tariff of 1872
B) the Edmunds Act
C) an influx of Chinese immigrants
D) the availability of cheap eastern-made goods

Question 4

Why did Democrats run Winfield S. Hancock, a former Union general, in the 1880 presidential election?

A) to counter the bloody shirt effect
B) to highlight social and economic inequality
C) to give credibility to the partys foreign policy agenda
D) to create promote party unity

Question 5

Chester A. Arthur believed which of the following?

A) Centralized planning was the only solution to Americas problems.
B) Personal morality was none of the governments business.
C) The government should do as little as possible.
D) Laissez-faire policies had their limits.

Question 6

Why did Charles J. Guiteau shoot President Garfield?

A) He had been denied a government job.
B) He wanted to overthrow the U.S. government.
C) He believed that Garfield had seduced his wife.
D) He wanted to gain notoriety.