Week 3 Quiz

A  putting more money into circulation

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

C  reducing farm prices

D  raising wagers for industrial workers

A  Eugene Debs

B  Ida B. Wells

C  Susan B. Anthony

D  Jacob S. Coxey

A  organizing a third political party

B  passing laws to regulate railroads

C  reducing agricultural production

D  forming cooperatives

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

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

C  William Jennings Bryan’s opposition to the gold standard in the presidential campaign 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  in the 1890s

B  during World War I

C  during the 1850s

D  after the Philippine-American War of 1899

A  jobs for the unemployed

B  pensions for Civil War veterans

C  civil service reform

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

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  the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

B  separate but equal facilities were constitutional

C  separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

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

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, 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 Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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

C  The Interstate Commerce Act

D  the Freedmen’s Bureau

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 too low

B  the tariff reduced American industrial productivity and impeded technological innovation

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

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

A  raise average wages for working class laborers

B  reduce the tariff

C  regulate railroad rates

D  lower the price of public lands

A  Alaska Territory

B  Massachusetts

C  the reconstructed South

D  Wyoming Territory

A  the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

B  voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

C  presidential elections were usually close contest

D  Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

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

B  called on Britain to adopt American political institutions and practices

C  praised the American political system

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

A  Age of Mediocrity

B  Progressive Era

C  Gilded Age

D  Age of Discontent