A.   Age of Discontent

B.   Age of Mediocrity

C.   Gilded Age

D.   Progressive Era

A.   warned that patronage rather than substantive issues characterizes politics in America

B.   argued that the South was right to secede from the United States

C.   praised the American political system

D.   called on Britain to adopt American political institutions and practices

A.   Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

B.   the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

C.   voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

D.   presidential elections were usually close contest

A.   Massachusetts

B.   Wyoming Territory

C.   Alaska Territory

D.   the reconstructed South

A.   reduce the tariff

B.   regulate railroad rates

C.   raise average wages for working class laborers

D.   lower the price of public lands

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.   the Credit Mobilier scandal

B.   the demand for free coinage of silver by American farmers

C.   the assassination of President James Garfield

D.   abuse of the patronage system by every president since Grant

A.   the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

B.   the Freedmen's Bureau

C.   the Supreme Court's ruling in Munn v. Illinois

D.   The Interstate Commerce Act

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

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

A.   the unwillingness of banks to loan farmers money

B.   overproduction

C.   foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

D.   excessive government regulation

A.   separate but equal facilities were constitutional

B.   separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

C.   the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

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

A.   revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

B.   deprive African-Americans of the vote

C.   lease black prison labor to private interests

D.   segregate southern schools

A.   Southern Farmers' Alliance

B.   The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

C.   Knights of Labor

D.   Populist Party

A.   pensions for Civil War veterans

B.   the denial of the right to vote to former confederate military officers

C.   civil service reform

D.   jobs for the unemployed

A.   during World War I

B.   during the 1850s

C.   after the Philippine-American War of 1899

D.   in the 1890s

A.   inflation of the currency

B.   the extension of the right to vote to women

C.   government ownership of industry

D.   an income tax

A.   President William McKinley's rebuttal to gold-standard advocates in Congress

B.   Bryan's objection to Roman Catholics participating in the presidential election of 1896

C.   William Jennings Bryan's opposition to the gold standard in the presidential campaign of 1896

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

A.   organizing a third political party

B.   passing laws to regulate railroads

C.   reducing agricultural production

D.   forming cooperatives

A.   Susan B. Anthony

B.   Ida B. Wells

C.   Jacob S. Coxey

D.   Eugene Debs

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

B.   reducing farm prices

C.   raising wagers for industrial workers

D.   putting more money into circulation