A.   Progressive Era

B.   Age of Discontent

C.   Gilded Age

D.   Age of Mediocrity

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

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

C.   praised the American political system

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

A.   the Republican Party consistently lost presidential elections

B.   voter turnout was usually low by modern standards

C.   presidential elections were usually close contest

D.   Democratic candidates usually won the presidency

A.   Alaska Territory

B.   Wyoming 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.   the tariff was too low

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.   abuse of the patronage system by every president since Grant

B.   the Credit Mobilier scandal

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

D.   the assassination of President James Garfield

A.   The Interstate Commerce Act

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

C.   the Sherman Anti-Trust 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, because voters were more interested in a candidates appeal than in issues

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

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

A.   overproduction

B.   excessive government regulation

C.   foreign restrictions on the import of American crops

D.   the unwillingness of banks to loan farmers money

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

B.   separate but equal facilities were constitutional

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

D.   the 14th Amendment was unconstitutional

A.   segregate southern schools

B.   lease black prison labor to private interests

C.   deprive African-Americans of the vote

D.   revitalize the southern economy by modernizing it

A.   The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)

B.   Southern Farmers' Alliance

C.   Knights of Labor

D.   Populist Party

A.   jobs for the unemployed

B.   civil service reform

C.   pensions for Civil War veterans

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

A.   during World War I

B.   in the 1890s

C.   after the Philippine-American War of 1899

D.   during the 1850s

A.   an income tax

B.   government ownership of industry

C.   the extension of the right to vote to women

D.   inflation of the currency

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.   reducing agricultural production

B.   forming cooperatives

C.   passing laws to regulate railroads

D.   organizing a third political party

A.   Eugene Debs

B.   Ida B. Wells

C.   Susan B. Anthony

D.   Jacob S. Coxey

A.   raising wagers for industrial workers

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

C.   putting more money into circulation

D.   reducing farm prices