In the late nineteenth century, the most striking feature of the American party system was its |
remarkable stability |
In American politics during the late nineteenth century |
Republicans usually held a majority in the Senate |
An examination of American voters in the late nineteenth century reveals |
voter turnout for both presidential and nonpresidential elections was very high |
The high degree of party loyalty in the late nineteenth century is explained primarily by |
a voter's regional background |
In the late nineteenth century, Democrats tended to attract the greater numbers of |
Catholics |
In the late nineteenth century, a voter's party identification was usually a reflection of |
cultural background |
Throughout the late nineteenth century, the federal government |
was relatively inactive |
In the late nineteenth century, as veterans of the Civil War retired, |
a majority of the black and white male population in the North received federal pensions |
The political battles between Stalwarts and Half-Breeds constituted a fight |
between traditionalists and reformers |
James A. Garfield |
was assassinated by an unsuccessful office seeker |
Chester A. Arthur |
supported the Pendleton Act as part of civil service reform |
In the election of 1884, "Mugwumps" were |
unhappy Republicans who threatened to vote for the Democrats |
As president, Grover Cleveland |
was a fiscal conservative |
The election of 1888 |
involved clear economic differences between the major parties |
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 |
was used by the federal government against labor unions |
In the late nineteenth century, the issue of primary interest to the Republican Party was |
supporting high tariffs |
As a result of the McKinley Tariff of 1890 |
Republicans suffered significant political losses that year |
In 1892, President Grover Cleveland |
followed policies similar to those of his first term |
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 |
both A and B |
In the late nineteenth century, the Granger Laws supported the interests of |
farmers |
What statement regarding the national Grange movement is FALSE? |
It was greatly strengthened by the end of the economic depression in the late 1870s |
Compared to the Grange movement, The Farmers' Alliances |
were more national in scale |
The election of 1892 |
saw the debut of the People's Party |
In the 1890s, Populism appealed to |
all of the above |
In 1892, the People's Party called for |
a government network of crop warehouses |
In the late nineteenth century, American Populism |
favored the direct election of United States senators |
The Panic of 1893 |
triggered the nation's most severe depression up to that point |
The economic decline that followed the Panic of 1893 demonstrated |
the degree to which the American economy had become interconnected |
In 1894, Jacob Coxey and his supporters |
called for a public works program for the unemployed |
To many middle-class Americans, the major labor upheavals of the late nineteenth century |
were dangerous signs of social instability |
In 1873, the Congressional law that officially discontinued silver coinage |
became known to critics as the "Crime of `73." |
In the 1890s, farmers favored the federal government's coinage of silver because |
it would result in an inflation of currency |
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 called for the federal government to |
purchase silver |
In the 1890s, President Grover Cleveland faced the severe economic problem of |
declining gold reserves |
As the Republican Party approached the 1896 election, they were |
confident of victory |
In 1896, the Democratic political platform |
adopted several, but not all, major Populist issues |
The "Cross of Gold" speech was given in 1896 by |
William Jennings Bryan |
The "Cross of Gold" speech appealed primarily to |
farmers |
In the campaign of 1896, President William McKinley |
campaigned largely from his house |
The 1896 election results saw |
the Populist movement suffer a crippling defeat |
In 1896, the major issue of William McKinley's administration was |
the desire for higher tariffs |
American agriculture during the 1890s benefited from |
foreign crop failures |