Chapter 20

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Which group or groups took part in the Feb. 1892 St. Louis gathering, which evolved into the People's party?
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Farmers, Labor unionists and women's leaders
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Which issues formed the basis of farmers' dissatisfaction in the late nineteenth century?
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Banking, railroading and speculation
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Which of the following describes the relationship between the Southern Farmers' Alliance and the Colored Farmers' Alliance?
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They disagreed on some issues but worked together on others.
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The Farmers' Alliance movement of the 1880s aimed to help farmers
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by sponsoring cooperatives that would give them greater economic independence
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By 1892, the Farmers' Alliance had become
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the People's Party
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How did the Populists propose to help American farmers in the 1890s?
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They recommend creating a government sponsored sub treasury
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The Populists' plan to help western farmers in the 1890s included
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land reform and government ownership of railroads and telegraph lines
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The platform of the People's party in the 1890s
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presented an alternative vision of economic democracy.
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What sparked the Homestead lockout and the ensuing strike in 1892?
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The Amalagated Association of Iron and Steel workers tried to renew its contract
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What decision made by Henry Clay Frick led to the deaths and injuries that took place at the Homestead mill in 1892?
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The hiring of Pinkertons to enter the plant via river.
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What was the outcome of the four and a half month long strike at the Homestead mill?
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The strikers returned to work minus their Union leaders
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What issue triggered the cripple creek miners' strike of 1894?
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Owners attempted to lengthen the workday from 8 to 10 hours
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Compared to the Homestead lockout, labor's success at Cripple Creek demonstrated
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the importance of state support in the outcome of labor disputes.
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Which of the following problems was a drawback of living in the town of Pullman, Illinois?
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The high rent
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One of the root causes of the major strike at the Pullman plant in 1893 was
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the company's attempts to control the work process
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Which event led to the end of the Pullman strike of 1893?
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The courts issued an injunction that led to the imprisonment of Eugene Debs
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After his six month jail sentence for his part in the Pullman strike, union leader Eugene Debs believed that
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workers must take control and establish a socialsist state
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Which one of the united states allowed women to vote in 1890?
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Wyoming
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Why did the American temperance movement attract women in the late nineteenth century?
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Drunkenness adversely affected women in many ways.
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After Frances Willard assumed the presidency of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, the organizations focus gradually changed to include
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social action, labor conditions, and women's voting rights
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By 1900, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union could claim credit for
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providing a generation of women with experience in political action.
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Which of the following describes the National Woman Suffrage Association, which Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed in 1869?
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It demanded the right to vote for women
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Suffragists suffered a bitter defeat in 1896 when a referendum on woman suffrage failed in which state?
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California
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What was one outcome of the depression of 1893 in the United States?
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Unemployment of nearly half of labor force
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In 1894, Jacob S. Coxey led thousands of unemployed people to Washington to prpose a plan to
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put jobless to work building roads
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How did the People's party fare in the presidential election of 1892?
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They captured more than one million votes
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In the mid 1890s, the American press portrayed the Populist party as
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cranks, lunatics and idiots
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Which issue sparked conflict in the democratic and Republican parties as the election of 1896 approached and the depression worsened?
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The unlimited coinage of silver
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Which candidate made an eloquent plea for free silver-"Do not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"-in 1896?
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William J Bryan
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What factor posed a major obstacle to the alignment of the Populists and Democrats in the election of 1896?
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William Jennings Bryan's running mate, Arthur Seawell.
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At the St. Louis People's pary convention in 1896, the Populist delegates decided to
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nominate Tom Watson for vice president despite Bryan's resistance to the idea
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What made presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan's 1896 campaign particularly notable?
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he set a new style for presidential campaigning by traveling and speaking widely.
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What was the impact of the 1896 election on the Populist party?
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They were the biggest loser because Michenley won their ideas were "wrong"
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What made America's foreign policy paradoxical in 1900?
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The country wanted to keep western hemisphere closed to the outside influences yet also desired access to Asia
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Some Americans called for U.S. expansion in the 1890s to
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acquire new markets
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How did the federal government respond when American sugar interests requested the united States annex Hawaii in 1893?
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President Cleveland withdrew annexation proposal from Congress because Hawaii didn't want to be annexed.
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In addition to economic motivations, which factor contributed to US expansion overseas in the 1890s?
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Christian missionaries desired to spread gospel
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The boxer uprising in China in 1899 targeted
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missionaries and their families
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What were the chief priorities of American diplomacy at the end of the nineteenth century>
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Protection of Monroe Doctrine and open door policy from German and Japanese expansion into Pacific Asia
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What position did President Cleveland take in the 1895 border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana that tested the Monroe Doctrine?
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America had the right to step in
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The US role in the 1895 border crisis in Venezuela signaled to the world that
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the United States had achieved hegemony or domination in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Secretary of State John Hay initiated the Open Door Policy in 1900
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to insure access to trade in China for all Colonial powers
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What did the United States hope to secure through the Spanish American War?
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Cuban Independence from Spain
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What provoked America's entrance into the Spanish American War in 1898?
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Pressure by the press and the sinking of the Maine
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Who became the most famous man in America after the spanish american war
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Theodore Roosevelt
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The Platt Amendment in the 1898 Cuban constitution
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gave the US power to oversee Cuban debt
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The 1898 Treaty of Paris that ended the war with Spain ceded which islands to the United States
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Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines
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For what reason was it difficult for the United States to win control of the Philippines after 1898?
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Philippeano revolutionaries fought against the US for 7 years