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