- 1. Who made William Wade Dudley Treasurer of the Republican National Committee in 1888?
A) Benjamin Harrison
B) Alson Streeter
C) Grover Cleveland
D) Sir Lionel Sackville-West
- 2. What was William Wade Dudley's profession?
A) New York journalist
B) British ambassador
C) California farmer
D) Indianapolis lawyer
- 3. What instructions did William Wade Dudley give to Indiana's county chairmen in his circular letter?
A) Assassinate political opponents
B) Divide the floaters into blocks of five
C) Distribute secret ballots to all citizens
D) Boycott the upcoming presidential election
- 4. How much money would Indiana 'floaters' sell their vote for?
A) $50
B) $5
C) $2
D) $10
- 5. Who obtained Dudley's 'Blocks of Five' letter and distributed hundreds of thousands of copies nationwide?
A) Republicans
B) British diplomats
C) Democrats
D) Union Labor party members
- 6. What reform movement was stimulated by the 'Blocks of Five' controversy?
A) Secret ballots printed and distributed by the parties
B) Women's suffrage constitutional amendment
C) Abolition of the Electoral College
D) Direct election of United States senators
- 7. Who wrote the Murchison letter under the assumed name 'Charles F. Murchison'?
A) Alson Streeter
B) Sir Lionel Sackville-West
C) William Wade Dudley
D) George Osgoodby
- 8. What was Sir Lionel Sackville-West's official position when he received the Murchison letter?
A) British ambassador to the United States
B) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
C) Governor of California
D) US Secretary of State
- 9. In the Murchison letter, who did Sir Lionel suggest was probably the best man from the British point of view?
A) Harrison
B) Dudley
C) Streeter
D) Cleveland
- 10. How many weeks before the election did the Republicans publish the Murchison letter?
A) Four weeks
B) One week
C) Three weeks
D) Two weeks
- 11. What percentage of the voting age population participated in the 1888 election?
A) 52.65%
B) 36.3%
C) 80.5%
D) 47.22%
- 12. What percentage of eligible voters participated in the 1888 election?
A) 14.18%
B) 36.67%
C) 36.3%
D) 80.5%
- 13. Which swing state was Harrison's home state?
A) Connecticut
B) New York
C) New Jersey
D) Indiana
- 14. How many of the forty-four largest cities outside of the Southern United States did the Republicans win?
A) Fourteen
B) Twenty-six
C) Thirty
D) Forty
- 15. How many electoral votes were needed for victory in 1888?
A) 201
B) 233
C) 204
D) 197
- 16. What would have been the electoral count if Cleveland had won his home state?
A) 197–204
B) 204–197
C) 201–200
D) 233–168
- 17. Which candidate was the first of only five to win a plurality or majority of the popular vote but lose the presidency?
A) Andrew Jackson
B) Grover Cleveland
C) Samuel J. Tilden
D) Al Gore
- 18. In what year did Andrew Jackson lose the presidency despite obtaining a plurality or majority of the popular vote?
A) 2000
B) 1876
C) 1824
D) 1888
- 19. Who was the only candidate among the five popular vote losers to win a majority of the popular vote?
A) Tilden
B) Jackson
C) Cleveland
D) Gore
- 20. By how many votes did Cleveland best Harrison in the popular vote?
A) Slightly more than five hundred thousand votes
B) Slightly more than ninety thousand votes
C) Slightly more than twenty thousand votes
D) Slightly more than two hundred thousand votes
- 21. What was Cleveland's popular vote percentage margin over Harrison?
A) 36.67%
B) 0.8%
C) 1.09%
D) 14.18%
- 22. What was Harrison's winning margin percentage in New York?
A) 14.18%
B) 52.65%
C) 1.09%
D) 0.8%
- 23. What was Harrison's Electoral College victory margin?
A) 201–197
B) 233–168
C) 204–197
D) 210–180
- 24. What percentage of Harrison's votes came from the eleven states of the former Confederacy?
A) 14.18%
B) 36.67%
C) 80.5%
D) 36.3%
- 25. What percentage of the vote did Harrison take in the region of the former Confederacy?
A) 14.18%
B) 0.8%
C) 1.09%
D) 36.67%
- 26. In what year did Florida become a state?
A) 1845
B) 1876
C) 1888
D) 1824
- 27. How many states returned results where the winner won by less than 1 percent of the popular vote?
A) Eight states
B) Six states
C) Two states
D) Four states
- 28. How many electoral votes did Cleveland earn from states he won by less than one percent?
A) 15
B) 24
C) 201
D) 36
- 29. How many electoral votes did Harrison earn from a state he won by less than 1 percent?
A) 36
B) 168
C) 15
D) 24
- 30. How many electoral votes did New York have in 1888?
A) 15
B) 24
C) 201
D) 36
- 31. How many states switched sides in comparison to Cleveland's first presidential election?
A) Four states
B) Zero states
C) Two states
D) Six states
- 32. Out of the 2,450 counties/independent cities making returns, in how many did Cleveland lead?
A) 1,290
B) 2,450
C) 1,157
D) 1,200
- 33. What percentage of counties/independent cities did Cleveland lead in?
A) 0.08%
B) 47.22%
C) 52.65%
D) 80.5%
- 34. Out of the 2,450 counties/independent cities making returns, in how many did Harrison lead?
A) 2,450
B) 1,157
C) 1,290
D) 1,000
- 35. What percentage of counties/independent cities did Harrison lead in?
A) 52.65%
B) 47.22%
C) 36.3%
D) 0.04%
- 36. Who was the Union Labor candidate in the 1888 election?
A) Alson Streeter
B) William Wade Dudley
C) Sir Lionel Sackville-West
D) George Osgoodby
- 37. How many counties recorded a plurality for Union Labor candidate Alson Streeter?
A) Two counties
B) Four counties
C) Zero counties
D) One county
- 38. In which state did one county split evenly between Cleveland and Harrison?
A) California
B) Florida
C) Indiana
D) New York
- 39. What is the name of the First Lady who told White House staff to take care of the building for their return in four years?
A) Caroline Harrison
B) Lucretia Garfield
C) Frances Cleveland
D) Julia Grant
- 40. What historic distinction did First Lady Frances Cleveland achieve?
A) First First Lady to cast a ballot in a presidential election
B) First Lady to preside at two nonconsecutive administrations
C) First First Lady born outside of the United States
D) First First Lady to write a bestselling political memoir
- 41. Until what year did the Republicans not win Colorado and Nevada again after 1888?
A) 1912
B) 1900
C) 1968
D) 1904
- 42. What bellwether county in New Hampshire failed to support the winning candidate in 1888, for the last time until 1968?
A) Grafton County
B) Coös County
C) Strafford County
D) Carroll County
- 43. In what year was Coös County, New Hampshire, next to not support the winning candidate after 1888?
A) 1916
B) 1904
C) 1968
D) 2000
- 44. Who provided the source for the popular vote data of the 1888 election?
A) David Leip
B) Alson Streeter
C) William Wade Dudley
D) George Osgoodby
- 45. Which organization provided the source for the Electoral College box scores?
A) US Census Bureau
B) Republican National Committee
C) Democratic National Committee
D) National Archives and Records Administration
- 46. What year was William Wade Dudley born?
A) 1888
B) 1845
C) 1809
D) 1842
- 47. What year did William Wade Dudley die?
A) 1904
B) 1888
C) 1968
D) 1909
- 48. What was the name of the circular letter written by William Wade Dudley?
A) Charles F. Murchison memo
B) Blocks of Five
C) Murchison letter
D) Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion
- 49. Where was William Wade Dudley from?
A) San Francisco
B) Washington, D.C.
C) Indianapolis
D) New York City
- 50. What party did William Wade Dudley campaign for and prosecute frauds against?
A) Democratic election frauds
B) Union Labor election frauds
C) Republican election frauds
D) Whig election frauds
- 51. When were presidential elections held in the United States in 1888?
A) November 16, 1888
B) November 6, 1884
C) December 6, 1888
D) November 6, 1888
- 52. What state was Levi P. Morton from?
A) New York
B) Iowa
C) Indiana
D) Ohio
- 53. Who was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1888?
A) Russell A. Alger
B) William Walter Phelps
C) Allen G. Thurman
D) Levi P. Morton
- 54. Who was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1888?
A) Levi P. Morton
B) William Walter Phelps
C) Allen G. Thurman
D) John Sherman
- 55. What was Benjamin Harrison's relation to former President William Henry Harrison?
A) Nephew
B) Grandson
C) Son
D) Brother
- 56. On which ballot did Benjamin Harrison emerge as the Republican nominee?
A) Tenth ballot
B) Eighth ballot
C) Fifth ballot
D) First ballot
- 57. What was the principal issue in the 1888 presidential election?
A) Inflated currency
B) Civil War pensions
C) Slavery
D) Tariff policy
- 58. What did Grover Cleveland propose regarding tariffs?
A) Total elimination of all taxes
B) No changes
C) A dramatic increase
D) A dramatic reduction
- 59. Which former Republican group did Grover Cleveland appeal to?
A) Radical Republicans
B) Veterans
C) Industrialists
D) Mugwumps
- 60. When did a U.S. presidential election next occur where the winner did not win the national popular vote?
A) 2000
B) 1980
C) 1920
D) 1900
- 61. Which Republican frontrunner withdrew from the race before the 1888 convention?
A) Russell A. Alger
B) James G. Blaine
C) John Sherman
D) Walter Q. Gresham
- 62. Where did the Republicans meet for their 1888 convention?
A) New York
B) Washington, D.C.
C) Indianapolis
D) Chicago
- 63. On what dates did the Republican convention take place in 1888?
A) November 1–5, 1888
B) June 19–25, 1888
C) July 4–10, 1888
D) May 10–15, 1888
- 64. Who was William Walter Phelps?
A) The former governor of Michigan
B) Levi P. Morton's nearest rival for the vice-presidential nomination
C) The former Secretary of the Treasury
D) The president of the New York Central Railroad
- 65. Who was John Sherman?
A) A senator from Ohio
B) The governor of Michigan
C) The former Minister to France
D) A senator from Iowa
- 66. Who was William B. Allison?
A) A congressman from New York
B) A senator from Iowa
C) A senator from Ohio
D) The former Secretary of the Treasury
- 67. Which group's disenfranchisement in the South helped Cleveland win a narrow plurality of the popular vote?
A) Industrialists
B) Mugwumps
C) Black citizens
D) Veterans
- 68. When was the last time prior to 1888 that Democrats won the popular vote in consecutive elections?
A) 1860
B) 1856
C) 1840
D) 1876
- 69. When was the last election prior to 1888 in which an incumbent president lost reelection?
A) 1876
B) 1880
C) 1856
D) 1840
- 70. Who was the last incumbent Democratic president to lose reelection after Grover Cleveland, as of 2024?
A) Jimmy Carter
B) Lyndon B. Johnson
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Andrew Johnson
- 71. Where was the 1888 Democratic National Convention held?
A) Indianapolis, Indiana
B) Cincinnati, Ohio
C) Washington, D.C.
D) St. Louis, Missouri
- 72. Who was the last incumbent Democratic president to be re-nominated prior to Cleveland?
A) James K. Polk
B) Andrew Jackson
C) Martin Van Buren
D) Franklin Pierce
- 73. Whose replacement did the Democrats need to choose for the vice-presidency in 1888?
A) John C. Black
B) Isaac P. Gray
C) Allen G. Thurman
D) Thomas A. Hendricks
- 74. In what year did Thomas A. Hendricks run unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee for vice-president the first time?
A) 1876
B) 1880
C) 1868
D) 1884
- 75. Why did Isaac P. Gray lose the Democratic vice-presidential nomination?
A) He refused to support tariff reduction
B) His opponents brought up his actions while a Republican
C) He failed to secure support from his home state
D) He withdrew from the race due to illness
- 76. What did the 1888 Democratic platform support regarding western territories?
A) Statehood
B) Federal control
C) Territorial expansion
D) Annexation by Canada
- 77. Which Prohibition Party National Convention assembled in Indianapolis?
A) The 3rd
B) The 10th
C) The 5th
D) The 1st
- 78. In which building was the 5th Prohibition Party National Convention held?
A) Cincinnati Music Hall
B) St. Louis Convention Center
C) Tomlinson Hall
D) Independence Hall
- 79. Who was nominated for president unanimously by the Prohibition Party?
A) Clinton B. Fisk
B) Alson Streeter
C) Richard Trevellick
D) John A. Brooks
- 80. Who was nominated for vice-president by the Prohibition Party?
A) Samuel Evans
B) John A. Brooks
C) Charles E. Cunningham
D) Clinton B. Fisk
- 81. In what month and year was the Industrial Labor Conference held in Cincinnati?
A) June 1888
B) February 1887
C) November 1885
D) January 1884
- 82. Which political party was formed at the Industrial Labor Conference in Cincinnati?
A) Greenback Party
B) Prohibition Party
C) Union Labor Party
D) Democratic Party
- 83. Who chaired the Industrial Labor Conference in Cincinnati?
A) Alson Streeter
B) Samuel Evans
C) Charles E. Cunningham
D) Richard Trevellick
- 84. Richard Trevellick was a former member of which party?
A) Democratic Party
B) Republican Party
C) Greenback Party
D) Union Labor Party
- 85. Who was initially nominated for vice president by the Union Labor Party but declined?
A) Isaac P. Gray
B) John A. Brooks
C) Samuel Evans
D) Charles E. Cunningham
- 86. Who was selected as the Union Labor Party's vice-presidential candidate after the original nominee declined?
A) Samuel Evans
B) Charles E. Cunningham
C) Richard Trevellick
D) John C. Black
- 87. Roughly how many popular votes did the Union Labor Party garner in the election?
A) Nearly 50,000
B) Nearly 500,000
C) Nearly 150,000
D) Nearly 1,000,000
- 88. How many states did the Union Labor Party carry?
A) Five
B) Two
C) Ten
D) None
- 89. Who was nominated for president by the United Labor Party convention on the first ballot?
A) Victor H. Wilder
B) James B. Weaver
C) W.H.T. Wakefield
D) Robert H. Cowdrey
- 90. Who was nominated for vice-president by the United Labor Party?
A) W.H.T. Wakefield
B) Robert H. Cowdrey
C) George O. Jones
D) Victor H. Wilder
- 91. What was the margin of the vote for the United Labor Party vice-presidential nomination between W.H.T. Wakefield and Victor H. Wilder?
A) 126–65
B) 310–350
C) 50–12
D) 64–15
- 92. Which state was W.H.T. Wakefield from?
A) Kansas
B) New York
C) Michigan
D) California
- 93. In what year did the Greenback Party fail to win any House seats outright in the election?
A) 1888
B) 1884
C) 1880
D) 1886
- 94. Where did the fourth Greenback Party National Convention assemble on May 16, 1888?
A) New York
B) Washington, DC
C) Des Moines
D) Cincinnati
- 95. How many total delegates were present when the American Party convention assembled?
A) 50
B) 126
C) 64
D) 350
- 96. How many delegates were present by the time the American Party's presidential balloting began?
A) 64
B) 15
C) 126
D) 65
- 97. How many ballots were cast out of 350 for the Equal Rights Party ticket?
A) 126
B) 50
C) 64
D) 310
- 98. Who was nominated for president by the Equal Rights Party?
A) Belva Ann Lockwood
B) Charles S. Welles
C) Alfred H. Love
D) James L. Curtis
- 99. Who was originally nominated for vice-president by the Equal Rights Party before declining?
A) Alfred H. Love
B) Charles S. Welles
C) James R. Greer
D) Peter D. Wigginton
- 100. How many delegates were present at the Industrial Reform Party National Convention?
A) 75
B) 1888
C) 49
D) 87
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