HIS 144 Quiz 4

All of the following are true statements about the Populist Party except

It embraced the gold standard.

All of the following are true about the Cumberland Road, except

The road was widely considered sufficient for the region's commercial infrastructure needs.

The Homestead Act of 1862 provided a way for settlers to move West, occupy land for five years, and then claim as their own a total of

160 acres.

Who of the following did not support the economic plan called the American System?

Southern cotton plantation owners

Among the American Federation of Labor's successes were all of the following except

The AFL achieved all of these successes.

The Grange was

a national farm movement that sought political solutions to farmers' economic problems.

All of these were key components of the American System except

a self-sustaining agricultural system.

The need to market goods over wider areas gave rise to new forms of

advertising.

The key development in the communications revolution was the

telegraph.

The "putting-out" system of production referred to

the system whereby manufacturers would pay a family to perform one task in producing an item.