front 1 All of the following were effects of mechanization of farm labor except: | back 1 The bonanza farms never attained the status of a factory. |
front 2 What were the deepest economic problems faced by most western farmers in the late nineteenth century? | back 2 Deflation and lower prices for their products |
front 3 What did the least organized—and therefore most exploited—sector of the late nineteenth century economy consist of? | back 3 Farmers |
front 4 What did the Populist Party advocate for, among other things, in its first years? | back 4 A graduated income tax and government ownership of the railroads, telegraph, and telephone |
front 5 What was the grandfather clause? | back 5 A regulation that exempted from voting requirements anyone who could prove his ancestors had been able to vote in 1860 |
front 6 All of the following were contributors to the economic depression that began in 1893 except: | back 6 A surplus |
front 7 All of the following are true of the election of 1896 except: | back 7 Democrats were led by the sitting president. |
front 8 What was the 1894 Pullman strike ended by? | back 8 Sending in federal troops to crush it |
front 9 What term do scholars use to describe national politics from 1896 to 1932? | back 9 Fourth party system |