Week 3 Quiz

A  raising wagers for industrial workers

B  reducing farm prices

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

D  putting more money into circulation

A  Jacob S. Coxey

B  Eugene Debs

C  Susan B. Anthony

D  Ida B. Wells

A  forming cooperatives

B  passing laws to regulate railroads

C  organizing a third political party

D  reducing agricultural production

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  government ownership of industry

B  inflation of the currency

C  an income tax

D  the extension of the right to vote to women

A  during the 1850s

B  during World War I

C  in the 1890s

D  after the Philippine-American War of 1899

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

B  jobs for the unemployed

C  civil service reform

D  pensions for Civil War veterans

A  Southern Farmers’ Alliance

B  Populist Party

C  The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

D  Knights of Labor

A  revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

B  segregate southern schools

C  deprive African-Americans of the vote

D  lease black prison labor to private interests

A  the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

B  separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

C  separate but equal facilities were constitutional

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

A  foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

B  excessive government regulation

C  overproduction

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 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

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

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

A  the Freedmen’s Bureau

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

C  The Interstate Commerce Act

D  the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

A  the assassination of President James Garfield

B  the demand for free coinage of silver by American farmers

C  the Credit Mobilier scandal

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

D  the tariff was too low

A  reduce the tariff

B  lower the price of public lands

C  regulate railroad rates

D  raise average wages for working class laborers

A  the reconstructed South

B  Massachusetts

C  Alaska Territory

D  Wyoming Territory

A  Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

B  presidential elections were usually close contest

C  voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

D  the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

A  praised the American political system

B  called on Britain to adopt American political institutions and practices

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

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

A  Gilded Age

B  Age of Discontent

C  Progressive Era

D  Age of Mediocrity