WorksheetsPopulists
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
Who was the Populist/Democratic candidate for President?
Andrew Jackson
Grover Cleveland
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
Why did the Populist party want unlimited coinage of silver?
To increase the amount of money in circulation and raise farm prices
To reduce economic inflation
To raise campaign contribution limits
To decrease the bargaining power of labor unions
How have major parties reacted to the scenario described above?
By suing 3rd parties for campaign-finance violations
By persuading the 3rd parties to present a new platform
By addressing issues raised by the 3rd party
By preventing 3rd parties from holding conventions
What was the main issue of the 1896 election?
Adjusting Immigration standards
Establishing new foreign relations policy
Which metal would be the basis of the nation's currency
Westward Expansion
Unlimited Coinage of Silver,
Limit terms for President
Direct Election of Senators
Secret Ballot
Government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, and telephones.
Immigration Restriction
Graduated Income Tax
shorter work day 8 hours
Which political party platform is list above?
Populist platform
Progressive platform
Republican party platform
Democrat party platform
Which group of people were known as the Silverites?
farmers and bankers
bankers and laboreres
farmers and laboreres
bankers and businessmen
Which groups of people were known as the Gold Bugs?
bankers and farmers
farmers and laborers
bankers and businessmen
businessmen and farmers
"having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them; you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"
In this speech, who was being crushed and by what?
Bankers by the gold standard
Farmers by the gold standard
Industrialists by bimetallism
William Jennings Bryan by the silver standard
The Populist party was most attractive to
Business people
Farmers
Teachers
Whigs
Who did the Populists believe should run the railroads?
The Government
The local cities/towns
Private Enterprise
The Farmers
Although the Populist Party did not last long, these proposals did become law:
Income Tax & Direct Election of Representatives
Direct Election of Senators & Postal Savings-Banks
Income Tax & Free Coinage of Silver
Income Tax & Direct Election of Senators
Who won the election of 1896?
Teddy Roosevelt
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
Grover Cleveland
All of the following are true of Gold Bugs except
they were traditionally bankers and businessmen
they wanted inflation
they wanted dollars backed by gold in government vaults
they wanted less money in circulation
What explanation below explains why railroad companies were able to charge high prices to farmers to ship their crops in the late 1800s?
There was a great deal of competition between various railroad companies
The railroads foreclosed on many farms and took the farmers’ properties
The railroad companies had essentially no competition.
They were able to charge high prices because the railroad companies owned the Grange.
Situation that occurs when the number of dollars in circulation decreases while the amount of goods and services does not decrease or may even increase, as in farm production during the late 1800s.
Deflation
Inflation
Conflation
Conflagration
William Jennings Bryan's famous Cross of Gold speech is about...
The acquisition of colonies to increase employment opportunities.
The creation of a national park system
A policy of bimetalism to help farmers with raising crop prices.
Higher tariffs to protect American goods from foreign cometition.
