CLEP US History II

Answer: A - Following Reconstruction, as reintegration of the South and lingering Civil War issues stopped defining political agendas, the Republican Party became synonymous with big business and limited federal oversight of corporations and trusts. The party also favored the gold standard, limited (or “small”) government, and high tariffs. The presidency of Republican Theodore Roosevelt was a brief deviation from what had become the traditional Republican ideology. The present-day Republican Party remains the party of big business, “small government,” and limited federal oversight.