A.   Age of Discontent

B.   Gilded Age

C.   Progressive Era

D.   Age of Mediocrity

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

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

C.   praised the American political system

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

A.   presidential elections were usually close contest

B.   voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

C.   Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

D.   the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

A.   the reconstructed South

B.   Massachusetts

C.   Wyoming Territory

D.   Alaska Territory

A.   lower the price of public lands

B.   reduce the tariff

C.   regulate railroad rates

D.   raise average wages for working class laborers

A.   the tariff was too low

B.   the tariff was producing a treasury surplus and tempting Congress to dangerously expand federal activities

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

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

A.   the Credit Mobilier scandal

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

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

D.   the assassination of President James Garfield

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

B.   the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

C.   The Interstate Commerce Act

D.   the Freedmen's Bureau

A.   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

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

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

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

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.   separate facilities for blacks were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

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

C.   separate but equal facilities were constitutional

D.   the 14th Amendment was 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.   The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

B.   Populist Party

C.   Southern Farmers' Alliance

D.   Knights of Labor

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.   during the 1850s

B.   during World War I

C.   in the 1890s

D.   after the Philippine-American War of 1899

A.   an income tax

B.   government ownership of industry

C.   inflation of the currency

D.   the extension of the right to vote to women

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.   passing laws to regulate railroads

B.   forming cooperatives

C.   organizing a third political party

D.   reducing agricultural production

A.   Jacob S. Coxey

B.   Ida B. Wells

C.   Eugene Debs

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