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11thgrade
Chapter 13 - Farmers and the Populist Movement
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What explanation below explains why Greenbacks began to drop in value after the Civil War?
Greenbacks could only be exchanged for gold.
The railroad millionaires had placed all Greenbacks in powerful banks.
Greenbacks could not be exchanged for gold.
Greenbacks continued to be printed following the Civil War.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Who organized the Grange?
Oliver Hudson Kelley
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
Mary Elizabeth Lease
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who won the election of 1896 (ending the Populist movement)?
Teddy Roosevelt
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
Grover Cleveland
- 4. Multiple Choice
What political party turned the American two-party system into a three-party system for the eleciton of 1896?
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Populist Party
Whig Party
- 5. Multiple Choice
What political party supported the gold standard?
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Populist Party
Whig Party
- 6. Multiple Choice
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
- 7. Multiple Choice
Who said the following as part of an 1896 presidential campaign speech: “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
Teddy Roosevelt
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
Grover Cleveland
- 8. Multiple Choice
Following the Gold Standard resulted in ________money in circulation, and thus_______the prices for farm goods.
less, lowering
more, raising
foreign, higher
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is the practice of a government using gold AND silver to back money?
Gold Standard
Greenbacks
Bimetallic Standard
S.H.I.E.L.D.
- 10. Multiple Choice
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.
- 11. Multiple Choice
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
- 12. Multiple ChoiceMembers of which group most likely to belong to Populist Party?AnarchistsFarmersIndustrialistsImmigrants
- 13. Multiple Choice
The Populist Party wanted all of the following except:
abolition of the income tax
unlimited coinage of silver
regulation of railroads
a graduated income tax
- 14. Multiple Choice
Farmers were overextended with debts, and loans, railroad construction had expanded faster than the markets, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad went bankrupt, government gold reserves worn thin, stock market crashed.
All of the above were causes of the:
Panic of 1893
Great Depression of 1893
Panic of 1896
Panic of 1894
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhich organization combined with the The Grange to create the Populist Party?The Farming SocietyAmerican Association of AgricultureFarmer's Alliance
- 16. Multiple Choice
This speech was about monetary policy and was given by William Jennings Bryan during his campaign for president in 1896.
Gettysburg Address
Cross of Gold Speech
Emancipation Proclamation
Follow the Yellow Brick Road Declaration
- 17. Multiple ChoiceSilver and gold caused________money in circulation, causing prices to________.less, increasemore, increase
- 18. Multiple ChoiceGold caused ________money in circulation thus_______the prices.less, loweringmore, raising
- 19. Multiple ChoiceFarmers support the ________standard for money.BimetalismGold
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe wealthy capitalist who owned the companies supported the________standard for money.goldbimetalism
- 21. Multiple Choice
Which group of people were known as the Silverites?
farmers and bankers
bankers and laborers
farmers and laborers
bankers and businessmen
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhich groups of people were known as the Gold Bugs?bankers and farmersfarmers and laborersbankers and businessmenbusinessmen and farmers
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhich caused the rise of Populism?rising agricultural pricesThe use of silver instead of greenbacksCalls for racial segregationThe inability of farmers to pay off their debts
- 24. Multiple ChoiceAn African American that moved West to escape discrimination in the South.exodustercowboyPresidentcooperation
- 25. Multiple ChoiceThe railroad that linked the United States from East to West.cooperationclimateSt. Louis, MissouriTranscontinental Railroad
- 26. Multiple ChoiceThis gave settlers 160 acres of free land in exchange for having to live there for five years.soddyManifest DestinyTranscontinental RailroadHomestead Act of 1862
- 27. Multiple ChoiceA house made of sod on the Great Plainsmansionbungalowsoddylonghouse
- 28. Multiple Choice
A Sioux Chief, refused to sign a treaty. Killed when they tried to arrest him.
George A. Custer
Sitting Bull
Henry Dawes
Charles Eastman
- 29. Multiple Choice
The term for the plan to “Americanize” the Native Americans.
Exoduster
Ghost Dance
Assimilation
Soddy
- 30. Multiple Choice
The large grassland extending through the west-central part of the United States.
Chisolm Trail
Long Drive
Bonanza Farm
Great Plains
- 31. Multiple Choice
The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas through Oklahoma to Kansas.
Great Plains
Chisholm Trail
Little Big Horn
Mississippi River
- 32. Multiple Choice
Killed at Little Bighorn along with all his men by Sitting Bull and the Sioux Indians.
George A. Custer
Sitting Bull
Henry Dawes
General Grant
- 33. Multiple Choice
A large, single crop farm.
Soddy
Plantation
Sharecropper
Bonanza Farm
- 34. Multiple Choice
Home made of grass on the Great Plains.
Grassy
Soddy
House
Tepee
- 35. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT part of the culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800's.
The horse
The Buffalo
Land Ownership
- 36. Multiple Choice
Which of the following contributed to ending the open range:
Drought
Barbed wire
Overgrazing
all of these
- 37. Multiple Choice
Homesteaders faced many hardships including:
Being attacked by Native Americans & outlaws
Isolation
Debt
All of these
- 38. Multiple Choice
Assimilation of the Native Americans failed because:
Assumption the white culture was superior
Racism against the Native Americans
The Native American Culture and the White culture were very different.
All of these
- 39. Multiple ChoiceWhat took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation?Homestead ActMorril ActDawes ActReconstruction Act
- 40. Multiple Choicean attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a regiment of Colorado militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal membersSand Creek massacreTranscontinental RailroadCivil serviceHomestead Act
- 41. Multiple Choice
By 1851, the U.S. Government began restricting or moving Native Americans to what?
playgrounds
reservations
territories
new western states
- 42. Multiple Choice
An act that gave states land they could sell to private citizens. The money was used by states to establish colleges.
Morrill Land Grant Act
Homestead Act
Land Speculators
Bonanza Farms
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