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  Susan B. Anthony

B  Jacob S. Coxey

C  Eugene Debs

D  Ida B. Wells

A  reducing agricultural production

B  passing laws to regulate railroads

C  forming cooperatives

D  organizing a third political party

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

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

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

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

A  the extension of the right to vote to women

B  government ownership of industry

C  an income tax

D  inflation of the currency

A  in the 1890s

B  during World War I

C  after the Philippine-American War of 1899

D  during the 1850s

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

B  civil service reform

C  pensions for Civil War veterans

D  jobs for the unemployed

A  Knights of Labor

B  The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

C  Populist Party

D  Southern Farmers’ Alliance

A  segregate southern schools

B  lease black prison labor to private interests

C  deprive African-Americans of the vote

D  revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

A  the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

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

C  separate but equal facilities were constitutional

D  separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

A  overproduction

B  foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

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

C  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

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

A  The Interstate Commerce Act

B  the Freedmen’s Bureau

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

D  the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

A  the demand for free coinage of silver by American farmers

B  the Credit Mobilier scandal

C  the assassination of President James Garfield

D  abuse of the patronage system by every president since Grant

A  the tariff reduced American industrial productivity and impeded technological innovation

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

C  the tariff was too low

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

A  raise average wages for working class laborers

B  lower the price of public lands

C  reduce the tariff

D  regulate railroad rates

A  Alaska Territory

B  the reconstructed South

C  Massachusetts

D  Wyoming Territory

A  presidential elections were usually close contest

B  Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

C  voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

D  the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

A  called on Britain to adopt American political institutions and practices

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

C  praised the American political system

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

A  Gilded Age

B  Progressive Era

C  Age of Mediocrity

D  Age of Discontent