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A significant characteristic of American politics at the national level during the late nineteenth century was the: |
| | A) | development of a true multiparty system. |
| | B) | dominance of the Republican Party in popular support. |
| | C) | dominance of the Democratic Party in popular support. |
| | D) | nearly equal division of popular support for the Democratic and Republican parties. |
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In the late nineteenth century, which of the following groups would least likely vote Democratic? |
| | A) | Roman Catholics of immigrant origin |
| | B) | Protestant farmers of the South |
| | C) | unskilled wage earners |
| | D) | northern blacks |
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The most powerful institutions in national politics were: |
| | A) | the President and the Senate. |
| | B) | the courts and the House. |
| | C) | the President and the political parties. |
| | D) | the courts and the political parties. |
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Before the passage of civil service-reform legislation, there were about 100,000 civilian federal government jobs to be filled by presidential appointment. Of these, the greatest percentage were in the: |
| | A) | post office. |
| | B) | Department of the Army. |
| | C) | attorney general's office. |
| | D) | Department of the Treasury. |
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Which of the following acts was passed to a considerable extent as a result of the assassination of Garfield? |
| | A) | the Mills Tariff Act |
| | B) | the Pendleton Civil Service Act |
| | C) | the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| | D) | the Dependent Pension Act |
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Which president served two nonconsecutive terms in office? |
| | A) | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| | B) | Benjamin Harrison |
| | C) | Grover Cleveland |
| | D) | William McKinley |
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The most significant issue in the presidential election of 1888 was: |
| | A) | civil service reform. |
| | B) | the Mulligan letters. |
| | C) | free silver. |
| | D) | the tariff. |
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Congress justified its passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act on the basis of its constitutional power to: |
| | A) | levy taxes. |
| | B) | promote the general welfare. |
| | C) | regulate interstate commerce. |
| | D) | forbid any business practice that impaired free competition or threatened the capitalist system. |
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Which of the following pieces of legislation was stringently enforced by the federal courts? |
| | A) | the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. |
| | B) | The Interstate Commerce Act. |
| | C) | both of these acts. |
| | D) | neither of these acts. |
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Which piece of legislation caused significant political damage for the Republicans in the 1890 congressional elections? |
| | A) | the McKinley Tariff. |
| | B) | the Pendleton Act. |
| | C) | the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. |
| | D) | the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act. |
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The so-called Granger Laws were designed to regulate: |
| | A) | child labor. |
| | B) | the export of farm crops. |
| | C) | railroad and warehouse rates. |
| | D) | minimum wages and maximum hours. |
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What event caused the Grange to transform from a social and self-help association into an agency of political change? |
| | A) | the Civil War |
| | B) | the depression of 1873 |
| | C) | the assassination of Garfield |
| | D) | the depression of 1893 |
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The company that emerged in the 1870s to provide goods to farmers via mail order was: |
| | A) | H. Macy Company. |
| | B) | Bloomingdales, Inc. |
| | C) | W. Woolworth Ltd. |
| | D) | Montgomery Ward and Company. |
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During the 1860s and 1870s, the Grangers carried out three of the following activities. Which is the exception? |
| | A) | They established cooperatives. |
| | B) | They forged a political coalition with organized labor. |
| | C) | They supported political candidates sympathetic to the farmers' needs. |
| | D) | They disseminated information about new scientific agricultural techniques. |
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What did some Alliance leaders advocate that made the organization different from the Grange? |
| | A) | a national society in which economic competition would give way to cooperation. |
| | B) | local cooperatives designed to free farmers from dependence on the merchants who kept farmers in debt. |
| | C) | civil service reform. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
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One of the most important leaders of the Southern Farmers Alliance and People's Party was: |
| | A) | Roscoe Conkling. |
| | B) | Marcus Hanna. |
| | C) | Tom Watson. |
| | D) | James G. Blaine. |
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The Populist Party appealed primarily to which of the following constituencies? |
| | A) | labor |
| | B) | middle class Northern whites. |
| | C) | African Americans |
| | D) | small farmers in geographically isolated regions. |
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The Chautauquas were: |
| | A) | a movement to promote the culture of Native Americans. |
| | B) | a movement designed to thwart the influence of lyceums. |
| | C) | a movement designed to provide instruction to adults interested in further education. |
| | D) | a Northern movement associated with the Populist Party. |
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The Populists in 1892 favored three of the following. Which is the exception? |
| | A) | The direct election of senators. |
| | B) | The abolition of the graduated income tax. |
| | C) | Government ownership of railroads, telephones, and telegraphs. |
| | D) | The establishment of "subtreasuries" that would advance loans against stored crops. |
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20 | |
Three of the following were contributory causes of the Panic of 1893. Which is the exception? |
| | A) | The tax policies of the federal government on big business. |
| | B) | Excessive capital investments, especially by railroads. |
| | C) | The loss of American markets abroad due to depressed conditions in Europe. |
| | D) | Weakened purchasing power of farmers due to depressed prices in agriculture. |
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21 | |
In order to alleviate unemployment produced by the Panic of 1893, Jacob S. Coxey proposed: |
| | A) | a new dependent pensions bill. |
| | B) | drafting the unemployed into the Army. |
| | C) | creating jobs by means of government public works programs. |
| | D) | a welfare program of unemployment compensation. |
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22 | |
The expression "Crime of '73" refers to the: |
| | A) | discontinuance of silver coinage. |
| | B) | adoption of a bimetallic standard. |
| | C) | inflation produced by the unlimited coinage of silver. |
| | D) | fixing of the ratio between silver and gold at 16 to 1. |
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The most important issue in the 1896 presidential campaign was: |
| | A) | the tariff. |
| | B) | foreign policy. |
| | C) | the civil service. |
| | D) | the money question. |
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24 | |
The significance of the "cross of gold" speech was that: |
| | A) | it ended the "battle of the standards." |
| | B) | it inspired the Populists to oppose free silver. |
| | C) | it led to William Jennings Bryan's Democratic presidential nomination. |
| | D) | it helped persuade Congress to adopt the Gold Standard Act of 1900. |
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The issue of free coinage of silver rapidly declined in importance among farmers after 1896 partly because: |
| | A) | farm prices began to rise. |
| | B) | farmers lost interest in politics. |
| | C) | tariff rates declined and imports increased. |
| | D) | voters became more knowledgeable about economic issues. |
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