1. One characteristic common to western farmers like Mary E.
Lease and her family was that
they
a. were plagued by flooding.
b. carried high debt.
c. were unable to ship their products to markets.
d. were closed out of international markets.
e. paid a very high price for land.
2. Who lost the most in the Panic of 1873?
a. insurance companies
b. people who kept their meager savings in banks like Cooke’s, which collapsed
c. railroad investors
d. bank speculators and investors
e. former planters in the South
3. Starting with the Grange, western farmers blamed their financial woes on
a. taxes being too high on railroads and corporations.
b. free silver creating too much currency.
c. rapidly dropping railroad shipping rates.
d. urban workers not buying and eating enough of the food they raised.
e. monopolies and government conspiring against them.
4. When Populists spoke about the rights of “the people,” they excluded all of the following
groups EXCEPT
a. women
b. African Americans
c. Chinese citizens
d. Native peoples
e. Jews
5. From the standpoint of Native nations, all of these were problems with the Dawes Act
EXCEPT
a. it undermined a sense of community among Native peoples.
b. it reduced Native land holdings by selling off surplus lands.
c. much of the land the act gave to settlers couldn’t be profitably farmed.
d. it provided insufficient training to farm better.
e. it led to a loss of Native homelands.
6. Ultimately, politics in the West came down to control over
a. state legislatures.
b. land.
c. railroads.
d. voting rights.
e. water.
7. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) favored which of these tactics for
ending alcohol consumption?
a. destroying breweries and distilleries
b. destroying saloons
c. requiring more years of education for men
d. giving women the vote
e. having churches run schools
8. Henry George argued that the key to successful democracy was economic equality achieved
through
a. a single tax on labor rather than on land.
b. a single tax on land rather than on labor.
c. a graduated income tax.
d. public ownership of railroads.
e. a third party dedicated to equalizing ownership of means of production.
9. When party officials gave voters “soap,” they were
a. promising voters certain perks for their support.
b. proposing a national hygiene program.
c. handing out merchandise with the party name on it.
d. buying their votes with cash.
e. buying drinks.
10. What is the real name of the party sometimes referred to as the Populist Party?
a. the Progressive Party
b. the Union Labor Party
c. the Prohibition Party
d. the People’s Party
e. the Workingman’s Party
11. Populists supported the secret ballot because
a. they wanted to protect the voting rights of African Americans.
b. women were influencing the votes of their husbands.
c. there was too much peer pressure in small farm towns that influenced voting.
d. there were so many fraudulent ballots being distributed at polling places.
e. elections were corrupted by party officials.
12. Among the longest lasting legacies of Populism is its
a. support for prohibition.
b. racism and sexism.
c. racism and nativism.
d. support for banking interests.
e. support of the Democratic Party.
13. Southern states were quickest to implement the secret ballot because
a. it helped large banks.
b. it made it easier for Republicans to get elected.
c. it provided a legal means for keeping African American men from voting.
d. it provided a legal means to increase African American voting.
e. it made it easier for women to vote.
14. The two major lasting reforms of the Populists were
a. the secret ballot and the increase of African American voting.
b. the secret ballot and graduated income tax.
c. the graduated income tax and lower corporate taxes.
d. free silver and the secret ballot.
e. free silver and Prohibtion.
15. The Panic of 1893 led to more support for
a. a fusion of the Republican and Peoples parties.
b. a graduated income tax.
c. high inheritance taxes.
d. printing more paper currency.
e. limiting the influence of unions.
16. The rise of socialism came mainly from
a. railway unions.
b. manufacturing unions.
c. conservative Christians.
d. new immigrants.
e. populists.
17. Which socialist leader ran for president five times?
a. William Jennings Bryan
b. Eugene V. Debs
c. Mary E. Lease
d. Ignatius Donnelly
e. Grover Cleveland
18. Who was largest employer of Black men in the 1890s?
a. Samuel Gompers
b. Eugene V. Debs
c. Ignatius Donnelly
d. George Pullman
e. William Bryan
19. The rise of political science as a field helped to
a. shrink the study of history through scientific methods.
b. form a bridge between the populist and progressive movements.
c. increase the number of students with college degrees.
d. keep progressivism from being influenced by populism.
e. support populists’ hatred of the state.
20. The empiricism of the social sciences created which new profession?
a. travelling orator
b. professor
c. broadcaster
d. union organizer
e. journalist