A.   Gilded Age

B.   Age of Discontent

C.   Age of Mediocrity

D.   Progressive Era

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

B.   praised the American political system

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

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

A.   voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

B.   Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

C.   presidential elections were usually close contest

D.   the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

A.   Wyoming Territory

B.   Alaska Territory

C.   Massachusetts

D.   the reconstructed South

A.   regulate railroad rates

B.   reduce the tariff

C.   raise average wages for working class laborers

D.   lower the price of public lands

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.   the demand for free coinage of silver by American farmers

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

C.   the assassination of President James Garfield

D.   the Credit Mobilier scandal

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

B.   The Interstate Commerce Act

C.   the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

D.   the Freedmen's Bureau

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.   foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

C.   overproduction

D.   excessive government regulation

A.   the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

B.   separate but equal facilities were constitutional

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

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

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.   Knights of Labor

B.   Populist Party

C.   The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

D.   Southern Farmers' Alliance

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

B.   pensions for Civil War veterans

C.   civil service reform

D.   jobs for the unemployed

A.   during the 1850s

B.   in the 1890s

C.   during World War I

D.   after the Philippine-American War of 1899

A.   the extension of the right to vote to women

B.   an income tax

C.   government ownership of industry

D.   inflation of the currency

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

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

A.   organizing a third political party

B.   forming cooperatives

C.   passing laws to regulate railroads

D.   reducing agricultural production

A.   Ida B. Wells

B.   Susan B. Anthony

C.   Eugene Debs

D.   Jacob S. Coxey

A.   putting more money into circulation

B.   reducing farm prices

C.   raising wagers for industrial workers

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