A.   Age of Discontent

B.   Progressive Era

C.   Gilded Age

D.   Age of Mediocrity

A.   praised the American political system

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

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

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

A.   the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

B.   presidential elections were usually close contest

C.   voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

D.   Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

A.   the reconstructed South

B.   Alaska Territory

C.   Wyoming Territory

D.   Massachusetts

A.   reduce the tariff

B.   raise average wages for working class laborers

C.   regulate railroad rates

D.   lower the price of public lands

A.   tariffs were inherently unconstitutional and should never be imposed on American business

B.   the tariff reduced American industrial productivity and impeded technological innovation

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.   the Credit Mobilier scandal

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

D.   the assassination of President James Garfield

A.   the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

B.   The Interstate Commerce Act

C.   the Freedmen's Bureau

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

A.   low for both the Democrats and Republicans but high for various third parties

B.   high for both major parties, because party attachments reflected voter's religious and cultural values

C.   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

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

A.   excessive government regulation

B.   foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

C.   the unwillingness of banks to loan farmers money

D.   overproduction

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.   revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

B.   segregate southern schools

C.   lease black prison labor to private interests

D.   deprive African-Americans of the vote

A.   Populist Party

B.   Knights of Labor

C.   Southern Farmers' Alliance

D.   The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

A.   pensions for Civil War veterans

B.   civil service reform

C.   jobs for the unemployed

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

A.   in the 1890s

B.   during World War I

C.   during the 1850s

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

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

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

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

A.   organizing a third political party

B.   reducing agricultural production

C.   passing laws to regulate railroads

D.   forming cooperatives

A.   Eugene Debs

B.   Ida B. Wells

C.   Jacob S. Coxey

D.   Susan B. Anthony

A.   putting more money into circulation

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

C.   raising wagers for industrial workers

D.   reducing farm prices