quiz 2

Question 1

Grover Cleveland

Answer 1

• won election in 1884
• fathered a child (no wife)
• He was for the tariff

Question 2

Why did Cleveland win over his opponent?

Answer 2

-His opponent wrote letters bragging out how much money he would receive and perks from being president and the letters were leaked so Cleveland won.

Question 3

What did republicans believe about the tariff?

Answer 3

-They believed without a tariff the nations economy would collapse.

Question 4

What did democrats believe about tariffs?

Answer 4

-They believed the government shouldn’t be involved with the economy.

Question 5

What did Cleveland believe about the tariff?

Answer 5

-believed the tariff was too high because there was too much money in the treasury because money was not circulating in the economy.
-He asks congress to cut the tariff.
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Question 6

How did most people work after WW2 in 1945?

Answer 6

-Most people worked as farmers.

Question 7

If there were a symbol for the U.S. during this time what would it have been?

Answer 7

-The railroad, by 1900 you could go almost anywhere

Question 8

Railroads

Answer 8

• They used a lot of steel
• Didn’t just change cities, it changed the way we live-especially time.
• 1st true big business in the U.S.

Question 9

What was Unity through the railroad?

Answer 9

• TIME–it had to be standardized (created timezones)

- Consistency (railroads had to be consistent with times)