Week 3 Quiz

A  reducing farm prices

B  putting more money into circulation

C  removing silver from the list of metals used to back the U.S. currency

D  raising wagers for industrial workers

A  Eugene Debs

B  Ida B. Wells

C  Jacob S. Coxey

D  Susan B. Anthony

A  passing laws to regulate railroads

B  organizing a third political party

C  forming cooperatives

D  reducing agricultural production

A  President William McKinley’s rebuttal to gold-standard advocates in Congress

B  William Jennings Bryan’s opposition to the gold standard in the presidential campaign of 1896

C  Bryan’s objection to Roman Catholics participating in the presidential election of 1896

D  the anti-religious movement of secularists during the late 1890s

A  the extension of the right to vote to women

B  inflation of the currency

C  government ownership of industry

D  an income tax

A  after the Philippine-American War of 1899

B  in the 1890s

C  during World War I

D  during the 1850s

A  civil service reform

B  jobs for the unemployed

C  the denial of the right to vote to former confederate military officers

D  pensions for Civil War veterans

A  Populist Party

B  The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

C  Knights of Labor

D  Southern Farmers’ Alliance

A  segregate southern schools

B  deprive African-Americans of the vote

C  lease black prison labor to private interests

D  revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

A  the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

B  separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

C  African-Americans could never be citizens of the United States

D  separate but equal facilities were constitutional

A  foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

B  overproduction

C  excessive government regulation

D  the unwillingness of banks to loan farmers money

A  low, because voters were more interested in a candidates appeal than in issues

B  low for both the Democrats and Republicans but high for various third parties

C  high for both major parties, because party attachments reflected voter’s religious and cultural values

D  low for all political parties because of the disillusionment of the American voters in the role of the federal government in the years following the Civil War

A  the Supreme Court’s ruling in Munn v. Illinois

B  the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

C  The Interstate Commerce Act

D  the Freedmen’s Bureau

A  the assassination of President James Garfield

B  abuse of the patronage system by every president since Grant

C  the Credit Mobilier scandal

D  the demand for free coinage of silver by American farmers

A  tariffs were inherently unconstitutional and should never be imposed on American business

B  the tariff was producing a treasury surplus and tempting Congress to dangerously expand federal activities

C  the tariff reduced American industrial productivity and impeded technological innovation

D  the tariff was too low

A  reduce the tariff

B  regulate railroad rates

C  lower the price of public lands

D  raise average wages for working class laborers

A  Wyoming Territory

B  Massachusetts

C  Alaska Territory

D  the reconstructed South

A  voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

B  the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

C  Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

D  presidential elections were usually close contest

A  argued that the South was right to secede from the United States

B  praised the American political system

C  called on Britain to adopt American political institutions and practices

D  warned that patronage rather than substantive issues characterizes politics in America

A  Age of Mediocrity

B  Gilded Age

C  Age of Discontent

D  Progressive Era