Week 3 Quiz

A  putting more money into circulation

B  raising wagers for industrial workers

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

D  reducing farm prices

A  Jacob S. Coxey

B  Susan B. Anthony

C  Eugene Debs

D  Ida B. Wells

A  passing laws to regulate railroads

B  reducing agricultural production

C  forming cooperatives

D  organizing a third political party

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

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

A  government ownership of industry

B  an income tax

C  inflation of the currency

D  the extension of the right to vote to women

A  during World War I

B  after the Philippine-American War of 1899

C  during the 1850s

D  in the 1890s

A  civil service reform

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

C  jobs for the unemployed

D  pensions for Civil War veterans

A  Populist Party

B  Southern Farmers’ Alliance

C  The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

D  Knights of Labor

A  deprive African-Americans of the vote

B  segregate southern schools

C  lease black prison labor to private interests

D  revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

A  separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

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

C  separate but equal facilities were constitutional

D  the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

A  excessive government regulation

B  overproduction

C  foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

D  the unwillingness of banks to loan farmers money

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

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

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

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

B  the Freedmen’s Bureau

C  the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

D  The Interstate Commerce Act

A  abuse of the patronage system by every president since Grant

B  the demand for free coinage of silver by American farmers

C  the assassination of President James Garfield

D  the Credit Mobilier scandal

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

B  the tariff reduced American industrial productivity and impeded technological innovation

C  the tariff was too low

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

A  lower the price of public lands

B  raise average wages for working class laborers

C  regulate railroad rates

D  reduce the tariff

A  Wyoming Territory

B  Massachusetts

C  the reconstructed South

D  Alaska Territory

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  praised the American political system

B  called on Britain to adopt American political institutions and practices

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

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

A  Age of Discontent

B  Progressive Era

C  Age of Mediocrity

D  Gilded Age