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Which of the following describes the farmers who joined the Southern Farmers' Alliance in the late nineteenth century?
They made common cause with others, despite differences of race and occupation.
Who supported the striking workers in the Cripple Creek, Colorado, miners' strike of 1894?
The governor
In contrast to the National Woman Suffrage Association, the American Woman Suffrage Association [AWSA]
only advocated for women's suffrage in local elections.
Who were the biggest losers in the presidential election of 1896?
Populists
Which event finally spurred the U.S. Congress to declare war on Spain in April 1898?
The explosion of the battleship Maine in Cuba
How do historians assess the Populist movement of the late nineteenth century?
They describe it as a social movement that presented an alternative vision of American economic democracy.
What happened after the General Managers Association [GMA] responded to the 1894 Pullman boycott by recruiting strikebreakers and firing switchmen who supported the strike?
The boycott/strike spread to other railroads.
By 1900, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union [WCTU] could claim credit for what achievement?
Providing a generation of women with experience in political action
Which of the following characterizes William Jennings Bryan's 1896 run for the U.S. presidency?
He set a new style for presidential campaigning by traveling widely.
Why did William Jennings Bryan and other anti-imperialists oppose foreign acquisitions?
They believed foreign acquisitions would distract the nation from problems at home.
How did the agrarian Populist movement attempt to appeal to American industrial workers?
The Populist Party supported the eight-hour workday.
Which of the following properly describes the town of Pullman, about nine miles south of Chicago?
Pullman was a company town that boasted parks and playgrounds and many other amenities for its residents.
Which of the following offers an accurate assessment of the public careers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
They fought for an expansive agenda of reform aimed at winning a range of rights for women.
Why did so many white Southerners back down from voting for the Populist presidential candidate in 1892?
They feared Populists' willingness to form common cause with black farmers.
Why did American businesses look increasingly for profits from exports in the mid-1890s?
Weakening markets at home made reliable markets overseas essential for steady profits.
What factor contributed to the hard times many American farmers were facing by the 1890s?
Rising land prices
What did the success of the striking workers in the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 demonstrate?
The pivotal power of the state in resolving labor conflict
How did the organized movement for woman suffrage compare to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the 1880s?
The temperance movement was much larger, richer, and more influential throughout the country.
Which issue split both the Democratic and Republican parties in the presidential election of 1896?
Free silver
How did the Filipino revolutionaries, who had greeted the U.S. troops as liberators, react after Spain formally ceded the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris [1898]?
The Filipinos began a seven-year battle against their new American masters.
What fraternal advocacy organization did farmers support in the 1870s, about ten years before the creation of the Farmers' Alliance?
The Grange
How did the Farmers' Alliance movement of the late nineteenth century initially propose solving farmers' economic problems?
The alliances wanted to create farmers' cooperatives.
What finally ended the 1894 Pullman strike?
Two Chicago judges issued an injunction against the boycott.
What event turned public opinion against the Homestead strikers in 1892?
Alexander Berkman attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick.
Frances Willard exploited the cult of domesticity as a political tactic, arguing that women needed the vote to protect what?
Their homes and families
Why did women rally in support for the temperance movement in the late nineteenth century?
They felt vulnerable to the effects of drunkenness and saw temperance as a women's issue.
What happened to union leader Eugene Debs during the six-month jail sentence he served for his part in the Pullman strike?
Debs adopted the belief that workers must take control of the state and became a socialist. [formed the socialist party]
For what reasons did the Farmers' Alliance proceed in the direction of forming a third party in the late nineteenth century?
The opposition of bankers, merchants, and manufacturers jeopardized the prospects of farmer cooperatives.
What were the larger consequences of the assassination attempt on Henry Clay Frick in the wake of the National Guard intervention at Homestead in 1892?
Correct: Public opinion turned against the workers and unionism fell into disrepute.
How did late-nineteenth-century Populists propose to reverse powerful railroads' corruption of the political system?
Populists called for government ownership of the railroads and the telegraph system.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union [WCTU] demonstrated that American women in the late nineteenth century were
engaged in widespread political activity.
How did American farmers respond to the lecturers who traveled around the South recruiting for the Farmers' Alliance in the late nineteenth century?
Farmers were very receptive to the Alliance message.
How did the Woman's Christian Temperance Union [WCTU], under the leadership of Frances Willard, understand alcoholism?
As a disease rather than a sin
What was the situation facing striking workers when the 1892 Homestead strike ended?
The striking workers were demoralized and hopeless.
How did Populists hope to address the nation's tight money supply?
The Populists wanted to add silver to the money supply.
What was the Pinkerton Agency, and how did it function in the 1890s?
It was a private detective agency whose employees worked as security agents to protect strikebreakers and as company spies.
By 1890, when the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association united as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, suffrage for women was
generally not supported but was no longer considered a crazy idea.
How did many conservative Americans react to the Populists' proposal to establish a subtreasury system in the late nineteenth century?
Conservative Americans denounced it as farfetched and communistic.
Which of the following issues triggered the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894?
Mine owners' efforts to lengthen the workday from eight to ten hours
Which of the following describes the Farmers' Alliance's relationship to women in the 1880s?
Broadly inclusive [Farmer's Alliance was "radically inclusive"]
How did the railroads contribute to farmers' economic troubles in the late nineteenth century?
They charged farmers exorbitant rates while granting rebates to large shippers.
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