Week 3 Quiz

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

B  putting more money into circulation

C  raising wagers for industrial workers

D  reducing farm prices

A  Ida B. Wells

B  Eugene Debs

C  Jacob S. Coxey

D  Susan B. Anthony

A  forming cooperatives

B  passing laws to regulate railroads

C  organizing a third political party

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  inflation of the currency

B  an income tax

C  the extension of the right to vote to women

D  government ownership of industry

A  during World War I

B  in the 1890s

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  jobs for the unemployed

C  civil service reform

D  pensions for Civil War veterans

A  Populist Party

B  Knights of Labor

C  The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

D  Southern Farmers’ Alliance

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  African-Americans could never be citizens of the United States

B  separate but equal facilities were constitutional

C  the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

D  separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

A  excessive government regulation

B  overproduction

C  the unwillingness of banks to loan farmers money

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 Freedmen’s Bureau

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

D  the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

A  the Credit Mobilier scandal

B  the assassination of President James Garfield

C  abuse of the patronage system by every president since Grant

D  the demand for free coinage of silver by American farmers

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  regulate railroad rates

D  reduce the tariff

A  Massachusetts

B  Wyoming Territory

C  Alaska Territory

D  the reconstructed South

A  the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

B  Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

C  voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

D  presidential elections were usually close contest

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

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

C  called on Britain to adopt American political institutions and practices

D  praised the American political system

A  Age of Discontent

B  Age of Mediocrity

C  Progressive Era

D  Gilded Age