chapter 16-populism

Question 1

When government jobs go to supporters of the winning party in an election in the late 1800s it was called ____.

Answer 1

patronage

Question 2

Partial refunds employed by railroads to benefit large shippers

Answer 2

rebates

Question 3

declared illegal any combination in the form of a trust or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states

Answer 3

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Question 4

renegade reformers who thought of themselves as moral leaders, more concerned with helping the nation than a political party

Answer 4

mugwumps

Question 5

law that reformed the civil service

Answer 5

Pendleton Act

Question 6

the nation’s first national farm organization or union

Answer 6

The Grange

Question 7

american movement to increase farmers’ political power and to work for legislation in the farmer’s interest

Answer 7

populism

Question 8

launched a fearless crusade against lynching

Answer 8

Ida B. Wells

Question 9

separation of the races

Answer 9

segregation

Question 10

This occurred when thousands of African Americans migrated from the rural South to Kansas for opportunities and to escape violent racism

Answer 10

segratation

Question 11

this gave whites a special break by allowing any man to vote if he had an ancestor on the voting rolls in 1867.

Answer 11

grandfather clause

Question 12

He proposed that African Americans concentrate on achieving economic goals rather than legal or political ones.

Answer 12

Booker T. Washington

Question 13

He was the first Democrat since 1856 to be elected president

Answer 13

Grover Cleveland

Question 14

Charles Giuteau shot this president because he did not receive a government job.

Answer 14

James Garfield

Question 15

large business owners like these taxes on imports because they would benefit from less foreign competition

Answer 15

protective tariffs

Question 16

These people believed that economic issues in America in the late 1800s could be solved by embracing this metal as the basis for money

Answer 16

silver

Question 17

The Peoples Party or populists wanted to start this type of tax so that the rich would pay a larger share of the government’s expenses.

Answer 17

graduated income tax

Question 18

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was overturned by this supreme court case that allowed for segregation on public railways

Answer 18

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 19

This was required in many states to pay for voting but was used in the south to discourage voting by African Americans and others

Answer 19

poll tax

Question 20

Where did the majority of African American lynchings occur in America in the late 1800s?

Answer 20

The American South

Question 21

Segregation laws in the south were commonly called

Answer 21

Jim Crow Laws

Question 22

The Pendleton Act required government workers to take ________ before getting some government jobs.

Answer 22

examinations

Question 23

He was the populist and Democratic presidential candidate in 1896.

Answer 23

William Jennings Bryan

Question 24

He gave a “Cross of Gold” speech denouncing the Republican Party’s support of the Gold Standard and supported the Populist movement.

Answer 24

Williams Jennings Bryan

Question 25

As farmers used new technology to raise more crops, demand and _______ fell leading to an over supply of farm comodities

Answer 25

prices

Question 26

The ______ laws limited some railroad rates for agricultural cargo in some western states.

Answer 26

Granger Laws

Question 27

He would be the first president with enough political courage to enforce the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Answer 27

Teddy Roosevelt

Question 28

The South had legal _______ for nearly 100 years

Answer 28

segregation

Question 29

She wrote about black grocers who were lynched for competing against white grocers in business

Answer 29

Ida B. Wells

Question 30

He wanted social and political equality for African Americans immediately

Answer 30

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 31

This political party called for the coining of silver, federal ownership of Railroads, and an income tax in 1892

Answer 31

Populist or People’s Party

Question 32

Booker T. Washington called for African Americans to focus on Economic opportunities in his _________ speech

Answer 32

Atlanta Compromise

Question 33

He wanted African Americans to obtain practical hand-on skills so that they could compete in the economy of the New South.

Answer 33

Booker T. Washington

Question 34

The _______ clauses forbid many African Americans from voting following the end of Reconstruction.

Answer 34

grandfather

Question 35

This political party dominated southern politics from the end of Reconstruction until the conclusion of the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1960s.

Answer 35

Democratic

Question 36

Following Reconstruction, which state was most important for securing the presidential election?

Answer 36

New York

Question 37

Who was the only Democrat elected to the presidency from before the Civil War until World War I?

Answer 37

Grover Cleveland

Question 38

Which political parties called for lowering tariffs so that large monopolies would need to compete with foreign companies and keep prices low?

Answer 38

Democrats and Populists

Question 39

Which house of congress had more Democrats in it from 1877-1897?

Answer 39

House of Representatives

Question 40

Which tariff was one of the highest protective tariffs in US History?

Answer 40

McKinley Tariff

Question 41

Who won the presidency in 1888 because of political contributions from wealthy industrialists

Answer 41

Benjamin Harrison

Question 42

Another name for the People’s Party

Answer 42

Populists

Question 43

In 1900, the US officially adopted the _______ that based US currency on gold reserves

Answer 43

Gold Standards Act

Question 44

paper currency that caused inflation was called ____

Answer 44

greenbacks

Question 45

this led to the increasing value of money which bankers and industrialists wanted in the late 1800s

Answer 45

deflation

Question 46

marketing organizations that worked for the benefits of their members like farmers.

Answer 46

farmers’ cooperatives or farmers’ alliances

Question 47

The ________ plan involved government warehousing of farmers’ crops and low-interest loans using the stored crops as collateral

Answer 47

sub-treasury

Question 48

The _______ Act authorized the US Treasury to purchase silver and begin basing the value of currency on it in 1890.

Answer 48

Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890

Question 49

This was an intense depression during the Cleveland presidency.

Answer 49

Panic of 1893

Question 50

He lost the election of 1896 to William McKinley’s Big Money/Gold Standard stance

Answer 50

William Jennys Bryan