APUSH Populist Exit Ticket

The People’s (Populist) Party emerged most directly in response to which of the following late-nineteenth-century trends?

• The efforts of businesses to gain control over markets and resources abroad

• The influx of migrants from Asia and southern and eastern Europe

• The growth of corporate power in agriculture and the economy

• The development of political machines

Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the Populist Party?

• Sharecroppers

• Industrialists

• Bankers

• Urban workers

Activists formed the Populist Party most directly in response to the

• growth of corporate power in agriculture and economic instability in farming

• emergence of concerns about abuses of the environment

• development of reform movements inspired by the Second Great Awakening

• rise of monopolies and reduction of wages for industrial workers

Which of the following best describes the overarching goals of the Populist Party in the late nineteenth century?

• Establishment of a transcontinental network of trains and the improvement of roads in the western United States

• Expansion of United States influence in Central America and access to new international markets

• Social and political reform guided by the idea of the survival of the fittest

• Cooperative democracy and a stronger governmental role in the economic system

The ideas expressed in the image contributed most directly to which of the following later political movements?

• Nativism

• Populism

• Progressivism

• Socialism

Supporters of the ideas expressed in the image would most likely have favored

• laissez-faire economic policies

• the rapid industrialization of the West

• government regulation of public utilities

• increases in tariffs on imported goods