Week 3 Quiz

A  raising wagers for industrial workers

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

C  reducing farm prices

D  putting more money into circulation

A  Eugene Debs

B  Ida B. Wells

C  Susan B. Anthony

D  Jacob S. Coxey

A  organizing a third political party

B  forming cooperatives

C  passing laws to regulate railroads

D  reducing agricultural production

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

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

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

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

A  government ownership of industry

B  an income tax

C  the extension of the right to vote to women

D  inflation of the currency

A  during the 1850s

B  after the Philippine-American War of 1899

C  during World War I

D  in the 1890s

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

B  pensions for Civil War veterans

C  jobs for the unemployed

D  civil service reform

A  Southern Farmers’ Alliance

B  Populist Party

C  Knights of Labor

D  The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

A  lease black prison labor to private interests

B  revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

C  deprive African-Americans of the vote

D  segregate southern schools

A  separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

B  the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

C  separate but equal facilities were constitutional

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

A  the unwillingness of banks to loan farmers money

B  excessive government regulation

C  overproduction

D  foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

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  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 Interstate Commerce Act

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

C  the Freedmen’s Bureau

D  the Sherman Anti-Trust 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 Credit Mobilier scandal

D  the assassination of President James Garfield

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  reduce the tariff

B  regulate railroad rates

C  raise average wages for working class laborers

D  lower the price of public lands

A  Wyoming Territory

B  the reconstructed South

C  Massachusetts

D  Alaska Territory

A  presidential elections were usually close contest

B  Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

C  the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

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  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  Progressive Era

C  Age of Discontent

D  Age of Mediocrity