Author Question: The Farmers' Alliances A. sought a closer working relationship with banks than had the Grange ... (Read 28 times)

futuristic · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

In 1894, Jacob Coxey and his supporters

A. organized a march on Washington as part of plans to overthrow the government.

B. were arrested by police, with many later deported as anarchists.

C. called for a public works program for the unemployed.

D. demanded that Congress establish a program of unemployment insurance.

E. demanded that Congress nationalize the railroads.

Question 2

The Panic of 1893

A. was blamed largely on Populist politics.

B. triggered the nation's most severe depression up to that point.

C. began with a drought in the Midwest.

D. grew out of the Cleveland administration's attempts at monetary reform.

E. grew out of a political scandal in the Cleveland administration.

Question 3

For many middle-class Americans, the major labor upheavals of the late nineteenth century

A. were evidence that the inequalities of capitalism needed to be addressed.

B. drew little interest outside of large urban cities.

C. suggested that a Labor Party, if founded, might eventually capture the presidency.

D. were dangerous signs of social instability.

E. were clear indications of the excessive power of monopolies.

Question 4

The Farmers' Alliances

A. sought a closer working relationship with banks than had the Grange movement.

B. were far more widespread than the Grange movement.

C. had more effective and better-managed cooperatives than the Grange movement.

D. were created to replace Grange associations.

E. shunned the political system, emphasizing instead education and organization.