The chapter introduction relates the story of the "World's Columbian Exposition" to make the point that
- correct answer ✔✔C. American society and the world had been transformed by the industrial
revolution.
The world created at the Columbian Exposition was indeed illusory; in fact, events in America at that
time revealed which of the following to be true? - correct answer ✔✔A. The political system in America
was ill-equipped to cope with the economic and social revolutions that were reshaping the country.
The pattern of late-nineteenth-century politics included - correct answer ✔✔D. strong party loyalty.
Which party tended to support a program of active federal support for economic growth, including high
tariffs? - correct answer ✔✔B. Republicans.
Which of the following third-party movements was the first to have a presidential candidate to receive
over one million votes? - correct answer ✔✔A. the People's Party
What was the "bloody shirt"? - correct answer ✔✔A. a rhetorical symbol used by Republicans and
Democrats to blame each other for the Civil War .
The first modern governmental reform law, the Pendleton Act of 1883, enacted in response to the
assassination of President Garfield, provided for. - correct answer ✔✔C. civil service merit standards and
procedures for government jobs.
On the tariff issue, ________ supported high protective tariffs; on the money question, ________ sought
the inflationary consequences of printing greenbacks. - correct answer ✔✔B. Republicans; farmers and
other debtors.
Rutherford B. Hayes - correct answer ✔✔C. moved quickly to end Reconstruction.
, Which statement is true of Grover Cleveland? - correct answer ✔✔B. Conservative and business-minded,
he supported civil service and the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Gradually, reform initiatives at the state and local levels set precedents for future action. Examples of
these efforts include. - correct answer ✔✔D. investigative and regulatory commissions.
Farmer frustrations that fueled the rise of the People's Party included. - correct answer ✔✔B. debt
The ________ was created in response to the Supreme Court's ruling in Munn v. Illinois and set an
important precedent in establishing a right for government to regulate private corporations. - correct
answer ✔✔A. Interstate Commerce Commission.
In the years surrounding 1890, an innovative program of self-help spearheaded by the Southern Alliance
movement flourished, though on the whole the effort, known as "________," failed. - correct answer
✔✔D. cooperatives
As the result of observing what the British had done with its naval fleet in the quarter-century prior to
1900, the U.S. Navy. - correct answer ✔✔B. was transformed into a modern, steam-driven institution.
The most innovative proposal coming out of the Alliance movement anticipated twentieth-century
federal farm programs that seek to stabilize prices paid for farmers' crops. - correct answer ✔✔D.
suggested a system of government warehouses for crop storage until prices rose.
The Election of 1892 was especially significant because. - correct answer ✔✔A. the Democrats won both
houses of Congress.
What is the best explanation of "free silver"? - correct answer ✔✔A. The U.S. government would
promote prosperity by inflating the money supply through minting all the silver offered to it.
Above all, the depression of the 1890s demonstrated the - correct answer ✔✔C. inability of the nation's
political system to smooth out the economic cycle of boom and bust.
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