Week 3 Quiz

A  putting more money into circulation

B  raising wagers for industrial workers

C  reducing farm prices

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

A  Jacob S. Coxey

B  Ida B. Wells

C  Susan B. Anthony

D  Eugene Debs

A  organizing a third political party

B  forming cooperatives

C  passing laws to regulate railroads

D  reducing agricultural production

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

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

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  inflation of the currency

B  government ownership of industry

C  the extension of the right to vote to women

D  an income tax

A  after the Philippine-American War of 1899

B  during World War I

C  in the 1890s

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  Knights of Labor

B  The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

C  Populist Party

D  Southern Farmers’ Alliance

A  deprive African-Americans of the vote

B  lease black prison labor to private interests

C  segregate southern schools

D  revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

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

B  the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

C  separate but equal facilities were constitutional

D  separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

A  the unwillingness of banks to loan farmers money

B  overproduction

C  excessive government regulation

D  foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

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 Freedmen’s Bureau

B  the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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

D  The Interstate Commerce Act

A  the Credit Mobilier scandal

B  the demand for free coinage of silver by American farmers

C  the assassination of President James Garfield

D  abuse of the patronage system by every president since Grant

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  raise average wages for working class laborers

B  reduce the tariff

C  regulate railroad rates

D  lower the price of public lands

A  Alaska Territory

B  the reconstructed South

C  Wyoming Territory

D  Massachusetts

A  Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

B  the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

C  presidential elections were usually close contest

D  voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

A  called on Britain to adopt American political institutions and practices

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

C  praised the American political system

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

A  Gilded Age

B  Age of Mediocrity

C  Progressive Era

D  Age of Discontent