American Pageant Chapter 23

Which of the following was NOT among the platform planks adopted by the Populist party in their convention of 1892?

• Government ownership of the railroads, telephone, and telegraph

• Free and unlimited coinage of silver in the ratio of 16 to 1

• The adoption of the initiative petition and the referendum

• Government guarantees of parity prices for farmers

• Immigration restrictions

The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to...

• take a competitive examination.

• present a written recommendation from a congressman or senator.

• agree to make financial contributions to their political party.

• submit a resume listing their experience and providing references.

• agree not to take a job in a related private business for two years after leaving government service.

President James A. Garfield was assassinated...

• by an ex-Confederate bitter at Garfield's Union army service.

• by an unknown and an undiscovered assassin.

• by a jealous former lover.

• by a deranged, disappointed office seeker.

• by a political anarchist.

In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress...

• negotiated a restricted-immigration agreement with China.

• did nothing, as it was California's problem.

• prosecuted the Kearneyites and other inciters of anti-Kearneyites in San Francisco.

• sent many Chinese back to their homeland.

• passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.

96. Blacks who violated the Jim Crow laws or other elements of the South's racial code were often...

• criminally prosecuted in federal courts.

• ostracized by their own community.

• assailed from both white and black churches.

• losing their sharecropping and tenant farming employment.

• lynched by Southern whites.

At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using...

• literacy requirements.

• poll taxes.

• onerous and intimidating voter registration laws.

• lynching.

• All of these choices are correct.

In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that...

• African Americans could be denied the right to vote.

• segregation was always unconstitutional.

• "separate but equal" public schools and facilities were constitutional under the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

• African Americans born as slaves could not sue in federal court.

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in...

• a renewal of the Republican commitment to protect black civil rights in the South and the continued presence of federal troops in the South.

• the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of federal protection of black civil and voting rights in the South.

• the election of Democrat presidential candidate Samuel Tilden to the presidency.

• Republican support for an inflationary silver-money policy.

The major electoral problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on

• who would be Speaker of the House.

• the two sets of different election returns, one Democratic, and one Republican, submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.

• Samuel Tilden's association with corrupt politicians of the Northeast.

• President Grant's campaign for a third term.

• Rutherford Hayes's controversial ties to U.S. Senator Roscoe Conkling and the Stalwarts.

A major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was...

• the issuance of millions of dollars in greenbacks.

• the expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets would bear.

• a credit crunch caused by extremely high interest rates.

• Wall Street's fears about the power of the radical Greenback Labor party.

• excessive speculation in mining stocks.