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magmichele12 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

How did the money question divide American society in the late nineteenth century?

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. The money question centered on whether gold or silver should be the basis of the monetary system.
b. Differences on the money question reflected the class, geographical, and political divisions in the United States.
c. Supporters of gold tended to be creditors, city dwellers, businessmen, and Easterners.
d. Supporters of silver tended to be debtors, rural residents, farmers, and Westerners.
e. In the 1896 presidential election, the Democratic candidate, William Jennings Bryan, supported silver.
f. The Republican candidate, William McKinley, supported gold.

Question 2

How and why did the status of farmers change in the late nineteenth century?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

According to the Past and Present video in section 17.6, some people argue that limiting the role of money in politics is tantamount to limiting __________.

A) democracy
B) corruption
C) political liability
D) free speech

Question 4

According to the How Do We Know? video in section 17.6, William Jennings Bryans speeches resonated the most with which group?

A) supporters of silver as the money supply
B) supporters of gold as the money supply
C) bankers and stockbrokers on Wall Street
D) owners of railroads and industrial factories

Question 5

According to the Arguing History video in section 17.6, critics portrayed the labor strike as a conspiracy to obstruct the __________.

A) government
B) free market
C) political process
D) legal system

Question 6

Whose active participation in his own campaign anticipated the political style of candidates for office in the twentieth century?

A) Andrew Carnegie
B) Eugene Debs
C) William Jennings Bryan
D) William McKinley

kardosa007 · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 21, 2019

Answer 1

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. Farmers had long been seen as the salt of the earth and the pillars of democracy.
b. Their status declined in the late nineteenth century.
c. The modern agricultural revolution increased farm productivity.
d. Higher agricultural yields contributed to declining prices for farm products.
e. As a result, farmers were not making as much money even though they were producing more.
f. Some farmers migrated to the cities to find work in the factories.

Answer 3

Answer: D

Answer 4

Answer: A

Answer 5

Answer: B

Answer 6

Answer: C