Chapter 16 - Test

Question 1

She campaigned against lynching in America

Answer 1

Ida B. Wells

Question 2

He founded the farmer’s alliance

Answer 2

Macune

Question 3

He believed that African Americans should exercise and protect their voting rights; one of the founders of the NAACP

Answer 3

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 4

He organized the migration of African Americans to Kansas

Answer 4

Singleton

Question 5

The populist and democratic candidate for president in 1896; made the cross of gold speech

Answer 5

William Jennings Bryan

Question 6

He thought African Americans should focus on economic improvement instead of voting rights

Answer 6

Booker T. Washington

Question 7

He assassinated Mckinnley

Answer 7

Guiteau

Question 8

These people wanted the spoils system to continue; the man who shot McKinnley was one of them

Answer 8

Stalwarts

Question 9

African Americans who moved to Kansas in a great migration

Answer 9

Exodusters

Question 10

Laws inforcing segregation in the south

Answer 10

Jim Crowe Laws

Question 11

A play written by Frank Baum that some people believe is an allegory of the political battle over the gold standard

Answer 11

Wizard of Oz

Question 12

This allowed a person to vote in the south if he had an ancestor on the 1867 voting rolls

Answer 12

Grandfather clause

Question 13

This act ended the spoils system

Answer 13

Pendleton Act

Question 14

In the 1800s which political party was considered to be the party of personal liberty

Answer 14

The Democrats

Question 15

This was created by Congress in response to Wabash vs. Illinois

Answer 15

Interstate Commerce Commission

Question 16

This action resulted in a national budget deficit

Answer 16

McKinnley Tariff

Question 17

What is one reason the Farmer’s Alliance failed

Answer 17

They were too small to effect the prices of the products
Railroad was too expensive for them
They loaned out too much money and people couldn’t pay it back

Question 18

Segregation took hold in the US when the Supreme Court overturned this Act

Answer 18

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Question 19

Which political party was considered the party of reform

Answer 19

Republicans

Question 20

What court case est. the principle that only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce

Answer 20

Wabash vs. Illinois

Question 21

After the civil war, name one thing the government did to control inflation

Answer 21

They stopped printing greenbacks
They paid off their bonds
They stopped coining silver

Question 22

What was created by the Pendleton Act

Answer 22

Civil Service System

Question 23

The spoils system is also called

Answer 23

Patronage System

Question 24

Populist wanted this kind of income tax

Answer 24

Graduated

Question 25

Cooperatives that were started by the farmer's alliance were large cooperatives that they called

Answer 25

Exchanges

Question 26

The first national farmer's association was called

Answer 26

Grange

Question 27

Renegade reformers whose name comes from the Algonquin word for great chief

Answer 27

Mugwumps

Question 28

Mississippi voters were required to pay this fee to vote

Answer 28

Poll Tax

Question 29

Democrats used this tactic to win the poor white votes in the South

Answer 29

Racism

Question 30

Ida Wells reported that three black grocers were lynched because

Answer 30

They were doing better than the white grocers

Question 31

The populist platform in 1892 wanted what?

Answer 31

Free Coinage of Silver Graduated income tax Federal ownership of the railroads

Question 32

Republican reformers in the 1800s were called this

Answer 32

Half-Breeds

Question 33

This act allowed the government to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver and put it into circulation

Answer 33

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Question 34

His court case est. the separate but equal doctrine in America

Answer 34

Homer Plessy

Question 35

When "separate but equal" was overturned, it was the beginning of ___

Answer 35

Integration (desegregation)

Question 36

_______ was when there weren't laws to ban African Americans from certain areas, it was just a known "rule"

Answer 36

Defacto Segregation

Question 37

Made up of all political parties in equal quantities

Answer 37

Bipartisan

Question 38

___ got into a debate with a Protestant priest about his faith and ___ didn't stand up for faith

Answer 38

James G. Blaine

Question 39

What type of segregation did they have in the north

Answer 39

Defacto Segregation

Question 40

Why did the Republican reformers abandon their party and support the Democratic candidate Cleveland

Answer 40

He felt the same way political machines and the spoils system as they did

Question 41

What did the ICC do?

Answer 41

Est. interstate commerce commission Made RR rates "reasonable and just" Banned rebates Made it illegal to charge small hauls with higher rates

Question 42

The McKinley Tariff lowered the tariff on __ and __

Answer 42

Sugar and tobacco

Question 43

Against political machines and the spoils system

Answer 43

Republican Reformers