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1
Which of the following states remained "in play" during the national elections of the period?
A)Massachusetts
B)Texas
C)Florida
D)Ohio
2
On the average, what percentage of eligible voters actually voted in presidential elections between 1860 and 1900?
A)38%
B)50%
C)63%
D)78%
3
Which of the following is not a reason why party identification was so strong in the Gilded Age?
A)The strong contrast between the parties' economic agendas
B)The legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction
C)Ethnic identification with a given party
D)Religious identification with a given party
4
Which of the following groups received payments from the federal government in the post-bellum era?
A)The elderly
B)Union veterans
C)The unemployed
D)The working poor
5
Which of the following best describes President James A. Garfield?
A)Stalwart
B)Half-Breed
C)Mugwump
D)Muckraker
6
What did the 1883 Pendleton Act do?
A)It raised the tariff on agricultural imports.
B)It established the Interstate Commerce Commission.
C)It required written examinations for civil service jobs.
D)It returned US currency to the gold standard.
7
Who is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms of office?
A)Benjamin Harrison
B)Chester A. Arthur
C)William McKinley
D)Grover Cleveland
8
What was the defining economic issue of the 1888 election between Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison?
A)Regulation of monopolies
B)Tariff rates
C)Rising unemployment
D)The "labor question"
9
What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Wabash case?
A)The Interstate Commerce Commission was unconstitutional.
B)The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was unconstitutional.
C)An Illinois Granger law was unconstitutional.
D)Segregation in railway cars was unconstitutional.
10
Which was the central aim of the Granger movement?
A)Civil service reform
B)Government regulation of the railroads
C)The remonetization of silver
D)The organization of a third political party
11
Which of the following is not true of the Farmers' Alliances?
A)They advocated a rigid collectivism.
B)They formed cooperatives and other marketing mechanisms.
C)They included women as full voting members.
D)They promoted temperance and anti-drinking legislation.
12
Who famously urged farmers to "raise less corn and more hell"?
A)Tom Watson
B)Leonidas Polk
C)William Jennings Bryan
D)Mary Lease
13
Who received the Populist nomination for president in 1892?
A)Tom Watson
B)James Weaver
C)Leonidas Polk
D)Oliver Kelley
14
Which of the following would be least likely to support the Populist Party?
A)Rural Protestants
B)Urban laborers
C)Southern blacks
D)Western miners
15
Which of the following was not a demand of the Populist Party?
A)Abolition of national banks
B)Direct election of US Senators
C)Anti-lynching law
D)A "subtreasury" system of warehouses
16
Which of the following was not a cause of the Panic of 1893?
A)Collapse of the Civil War pension system
B)Overexpansion of the railroads
C)A stock market collapse caused by bankruptcies
D)A credit contraction caused by bank failures
17
Who marched an army of the unemployed from Masillon, Ohio, to Washington D.C., in 1894?
A)Leonidas Polk
B)Jacob Coxey
C)James Blaine
D)Oliver Kelley
18
What does the value of the dollar rest on today?
A)US gold reserves
B)US gold and silver reserves
C)A ratio based on the value of the Japanese Yen.
D)Public confidence in the government
19
What was the "mint ratio" of silver to gold in the early 1870s?
A)4 to 1
B)8 to 1
C)10 to 1
D)16 to 1
20
What, to many, was the "Crime of '73"?
A)The demonetization of Civil War greenbacks
B)The discontinuing of silver coinage
C)The recalibration of the "mint ratio" to 12:1
D)The substitution of the "market ratio" for the "mint ratio"
21
Who published the enormously popular treatise on the currency question Coin's Financial School?
A)Leonidas Polk
B)Ignatius Donnelly
C)William Harvey
D)Mark Hanna
22
Who became instantly famous as the deliverer of the "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention?
A)Ignatius Donnelly
B)William Jennings Bryan
C)William McKinley
D)Theodore Roosevelt
23
Who did the Populists choose as their Presidential candidate in 1896?
A)William Jennings Bryan
B)Tom Watson
C)James Weaver
D)William Harvey
24
What one economic issue did McKinley and his Republican allies fully commit to?
A)The need to remonetize silver
B)The need for higher tariff rates
C)The need for lower tariff rates
D)The ten-hour day
25
What did the Currency Act of 1900 do?
A)It returned the nation to bimetallism.
B)It reinstated the mint ratio of 16 to 1.
C)It took the dollar off a specie standard completely.
D)It confirmed the nation's commitment to the gold standard.





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