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Why were Americans fascinated by politics during the late 19th century?

The grandfather clause waived the literacy requirement for voters ancestor had

Which of the following groups made up the bulk of the electorate until 1900?

Which of the following was NOT part of the Republican party's platform in the Post-Civil war period?

Which of the following is NOT true of American politics in the 1870s and 1880s?

The first state railroad commissions

In this case, the Supreme Court upheld the right of states to regulate commerce.

The Wabash decision stated that

The interstate commerce commission

until the 1890s

The president who entered the White House after the fraudulent election of 1876 was

Which of the following presidents was assassinated in office

Examine the political cartoon shown above and determine which of the following observations could be correctly drawn from the drawing

The Pendleton Act

Grover Cleveland

Which of the following was a Democrat who served as president?

Examine the photograph given above. Which of the following statements is a correct observation that can be drawn from the information contained within the photo?

Which one of the following court decision severely crippled the Sherman Antitrust Act

As speaker of the House, he was able to force legislation through Congress.

Which of the following was NOT an accomplishment of the Harrison administration?

Sherman Antitrust Act

The Case of US v. E.C. Knight

Those who supported the free coinage of silver

The Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Why was the republican-controlled Congress of 1890 important

Which of the following was not a reason for farm discontent in the late 19th century

Which of the following was not an organization of farmers that sprang into existence on the late 1880s?

The major objective of the Alliance Movement was

Which of the following was not a demand of the populist party?

The populist candidate for president in 1892 was

The election of 1892

The panic of 1893

Which of the following was not a consequence of the depression of 1893

As the leader of the unemployed marching on Washington, he demanded that the government fund jobs

The individual who rocketed to national attention bc of the Pullman Strike was

Pres. Cleveland broke the Pullman Strike on grounds that it had

Which of the following was not a consequence of the Pullman Strike

In the 1890s, miners of the Midwest

The pres. of the US during the depression of 1893 was

Early in the 1890s, the Democrats succeeded in

In 1894,

The greatest change in American lit. during the late 1800s was the rise of

The writings of Mark Twain

Which of the following individuals was NOT a prominent American writer of the late 19th century?

The lit. naturalists argued that

The leading naturalist writer of the late 19th century and early 20th century centuries was

The major issue of the election of 1896 was

When the democrats endorsed silver in 1896, the Populists

The 2 major presidential candidates of 1896 election were

Why was William Jennings Bryan defeated in 1896?

As president, William McKinley

The 1890s

During the late 1800s, relatively few Americans voted in the major elections.

During the late 1800s, Democrats, for the most part, wanted to keep gov. local and small in scope, while Republicans had a national perspective

The 1870s and 1880s saw a new generation of politicians dominate the political system

State laws of the late 19th century enlarged governmental authority

During the late 1800s, farm prices fell steadily

During the depression of 1893, life was much better in the cities than on farms.

Although Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan were both Democrats, they had very different political philosphies

The election of 1896 forced William Jennings Bryan into an uncomfortable political alliance

After 1896, the Democratic Party quickly returned to power

The republican-controlled congress of 1890 was one of the least active in US history