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Farming Struggles

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of these groups were NOT blamed for farmers issues?

a)

manufactures

b)

federal government

c)

banks

d)

railroad companies

2.

Who did Democrats choose in the Election of 1896.

a)

William McKinley

b)

George Armstrong Custer

c)

Henry Comstock

d)

William Jennings Bryan

3.

Who did Republicans choose in the Election of 1896?

a)

Billy Clanton

b)

Tom Ketchum

c)

William McKinley

d)

Albert Sidney Johnston

4.

Which of these were provided to farmers by the National Grange?

a)

education

b)

bushels of wheat

c)

2 more acres of farmland

d)

crops

5.

What were farmer alliances?

a)

farmers who worked together to save their farmland from the government

b)

networks of organizations that sprang up in the west and the south in the 1880's

c)

government arranged land that farmers were forced to share

d)

groups of farmers that made deals to trade some of their land

6.

What were the goals of the Populist Party?

a)

to appeal to western settlers

b)

to appeal to the federal government

c)

to appeal to the common people

d)

to appeal to farmers

7.

Who won the Election of 1896?

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

Abe Lincoln

c)

Populist Party

d)

William Mckinley

8.

Why did the Populist Party switch from a gold based currency to a silver based currency?

a)

they liked silver rather than gold

b)

they hoped it would give farmers the money to pay their debts

c)

they were running out of gold

d)

they hoped to impress the common people

9.

If farmers did not repay the ____ the they could lose their farms?

a)

loans

b)

government

c)

taxes

d)

populist party

10.

What did the National Grange try to encourage?

a)

labor

b)

economic self - sufficiency

c)

national income tax

d)

shorter work hours