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All of the following were part of the Populist platform EXCEPT:

• Progressive income tax

• 8-hour workday

• increased circulation of money

• staying on the gold standard

Which of the following was a major concern of farmers in the late 1800s?

• low price of farm products

• scarcity of farmland

• difficulty of meeting consumer demand

• low price of manufactured goods

Why did Andrew Jackson enforce the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

• clear native Americans from the Louisiana Purchase

• make room for settlers by removing Indians from their homeland

• encourage Native Americans to become farmers

• return Native Americans to their homeland

The main issue of the 1896 Presidential election was

• introduction of a graduated income tax

• debate over using the gold standard

• lowering of the tariff rates

• separation of church and state

William Jennings Bryan was the presidential nominee of which two political parties?

• Republicans and Democrats

• Populists and Republicans

• Populists and Democrats

• Mugwumps and Socialists

What of value and importance was found at the Comstock Lode?

• silver

• copper

• iron ore

• uranium

____ founded the Grange.

• Horace Greeley

• Oliver Kelley

• Ignatius Donnelly

• William Jennings Bryan

The goal of the Lewis and Clark expedition was to ..

• force Britain to stop attacking US ships

• explore the land of the Louisiana Purchase

• make contact with French settlers in the west

• establish new power for the Supreme Court

Farmers thought that if the government put more money into circulation, the result would be

• a move by banks to call in mortgages

• a rise in the price of farm products

• a decrease in the price of manufactured goods

• an increase in grain exports

The Homestead Act promised

• 160 acres to anyone who would live on and work the land

• a free house to anyone who would move to a western city

• a section of a gold or silver mine

• 160 Longhorns to anyone who would drive a herd north