Week 3 Quiz

A  raising wagers for industrial workers

B  putting more money into circulation

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

D  reducing farm prices

A  Eugene Debs

B  Jacob S. Coxey

C  Ida B. Wells

D  Susan B. Anthony

A  organizing a third political party

B  reducing agricultural production

C  forming cooperatives

D  passing laws to regulate railroads

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

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

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

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

A  inflation of the currency

B  government ownership of industry

C  an income tax

D  the extension of the right to vote to women

A  during World War I

B  during the 1850s

C  after the Philippine-American War of 1899

D  in the 1890s

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  The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

C  Knights of Labor

D  Southern Farmers’ Alliance

A  segregate southern schools

B  deprive African-Americans of the vote

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  foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

C  overproduction

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 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 Freedmen’s Bureau

B  The Interstate Commerce Act

C  the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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

A  the demand for free coinage of silver by American farmers

B  the Credit Mobilier scandal

C  abuse of the patronage system by every president since Grant

D  the assassination of President James Garfield

A  the tariff reduced American industrial productivity and impeded technological innovation

B  the tariff was too low

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  lower the price of public lands

B  raise average wages for working class laborers

C  reduce the tariff

D  regulate railroad rates

A  Wyoming Territory

B  the reconstructed South

C  Alaska Territory

D  Massachusetts

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  Progressive Era

B  Gilded Age

C  Age of Mediocrity

D  Age of Discontent