Week 3 Quiz

A  reducing farm prices

B  putting more money into circulation

C  raising wagers for industrial workers

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

A  Ida B. Wells

B  Susan B. Anthony

C  Eugene Debs

D  Jacob S. Coxey

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

D  William Jennings Bryan’s opposition to the gold standard in the presidential campaign 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  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  The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

B  Southern Farmers’ Alliance

C  Knights of Labor

D  Populist Party

A  deprive African-Americans of the vote

B  revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

C  lease black prison labor to private interests

D  segregate southern schools

A  separate but equal facilities were constitutional

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

C  the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

D  separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

A  the unwillingness of banks to loan farmers money

B  foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

C  excessive government regulation

D  overproduction

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

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

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  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 reduced American industrial productivity and impeded technological innovation

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

C  the tariff was too low

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

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  Alaska Territory

C  Massachusetts

D  the reconstructed South

A  Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

B  voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

C  presidential elections were usually close contest

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  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  Gilded Age

B  Age of Mediocrity

C  Progressive Era

D  Age of Discontent