A.   Age of Mediocrity

B.   Age of Discontent

C.   Gilded Age

D.   Progressive Era

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

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

C.   praised the American political system

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

A.   presidential elections were usually close contest

B.   Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

C.   voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

D.   the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

A.   Wyoming Territory

B.   Massachusetts

C.   the reconstructed South

D.   Alaska Territory

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 was producing a treasury surplus and tempting Congress to dangerously expand federal activities

C.   the tariff was too low

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

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

B.   the assassination of President James Garfield

C.   the Credit Mobilier scandal

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

A.   the Freedmen's Bureau

B.   the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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

A.   foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

B.   the unwillingness of banks to loan farmers money

C.   excessive government regulation

D.   overproduction

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.   deprive African-Americans of the vote

B.   segregate southern schools

C.   revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

D.   lease black prison labor to private interests

A.   Knights of Labor

B.   The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

C.   Populist Party

D.   Southern Farmers' Alliance

A.   civil service reform

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

C.   pensions for Civil War veterans

D.   jobs for the unemployed

A.   during World War I

B.   after the Philippine-American War of 1899

C.   in the 1890s

D.   during the 1850s

A.   inflation of the currency

B.   the extension of the right to vote to women

C.   an income tax

D.   government ownership of industry

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

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

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

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

A.   organizing a third political party

B.   forming cooperatives

C.   passing laws to regulate railroads

D.   reducing agricultural production

A.   Jacob S. Coxey

B.   Eugene Debs

C.   Ida B. Wells

D.   Susan B. Anthony

A.   putting more money into circulation

B.   reducing farm prices

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

D.   raising wagers for industrial workers