APUSH Ch. 26 Multiple Choice

The Democratic party nominee for the president in 1896 was ______; the Republicans nominated ________; and the Populists endorsed ________.

Williams Jennings Bryan; William McKinley; William Jennings Bryan

In post-Civil War America, Indians surrendered their lands only when they

received solemn promises from the government that they would be left alone and provided with supplies on the remaining land

The Indians battled whites for all the following reasons except

rescue their families who had been exiled to Oklahoma

The original purpose of the Grange was to

stimulate self-improvement through educational and social activities

The Nez Peirce Indians of Idaho were goaded into war when

the federal government attempted to force them onto a reservation

During the 1892 election, large numbers of southern white farmers refused to desert the Democratic Party and support the Populist Party because

the history of racial division in the region made it hard to cooperate with blacks

One key to the Republican victory in the 1896 presidential election was

the huge financial and propaganda effort of Mark Hanna and the Republicans

In 1890, when the superintendent of the census announced that a stable frontier line was not longer discernible, Americans were disturbed because

the idea of an endlessly open WEst had been an element of American's history from the beginning

President Grover Cleveland justified federal intervention in the Pullman strike of 1894 on the grounds that

the strike was preventing the transit of U.S. mail

The buffalo were nearly exterminated

through wholesale butchery by whites

The severe economic depression of the 1890s strengthened the Populists' argument that

wage earners and farmers alike were victims of an oppressive economic system

the Homestead Act

was a drastic departure from previous government public land policy designed to raise revenue

In several states, farmers helped to pass the Granger laws, which were designed to

Regulate railroad rates and grain storage fees

Large numbers of Europeans were persuaded to come to America to farm on the northern frontier by

railroad agents who offered to sell them cheap land

The Populist party arose as the direct successor to the

Farmers' Alliance

one major problem with homestead Act was that

160 acres were inadequate fro productive farming on the rain-scarce Great Plains

Match each individual with his role in the Pullman Strike: A. Richard Onley B. Eugene V. Debs C. George Pullman D. John P. Altgeld 1. Head of the American Railway Union that organized the strike 2. Governor of Illinois who sympathized with the striking workers 3. United States attorney general who brought in federal troops to crush the strike 4. Owner of the "palace railroad car" company and the company town where the strike began

A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2

Match each Indian chief below with his tribe: A. Chief Joseph B. Sitting Bull C. Geronimo 1. Apache 2. Cheyenne 3. Nez Pierce 4. Sioux

A-3, B-4, C-1

The Buffalo Soldiers were

African American cavalry and soldiers who served in the frontier wars

The U.S. government's outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance in 1890 resulted in the

Battle of Wounded Knee

Which one of the following was not among influential Populist leaders

Eugene V. Debs

Which of the following was not among the qualifications that helped William McKinley earn the Republican presidential nomination in 1896

He had gained a national reputation by sponsoring the high McKinley Tariff Bill

The first major farmers' organization was the

National Grange

The monetary inflation needed to relieve the social and economic hardships of the late nineteenth century eventually came as the result of

The Gold Standard Act

In the warfare that raged between the Indians and the American military after the Civil War,

There was often great cruelty and massacres on both sides

the bitter conflict between whites and Indians intensified

as the mining frontier expanded

The Dawes Act was designed to promote Indian

assimilation

The mining frontier played a vital role in

attracting the first substantial white population to the west

The depression of the 1890s and episodes like the Pullman Strike made the election of 1896 shape up as a

battle between down-and-out workers and farmers and establishment conservatives

The Farmers' Alliance was originally formed to

break the economic grip of the railroads through farmers' cooperatives

The Plains Indians were finally forced to surrender

by the coming of the railroads and the virtual extermination of the buffalo

Labor Unions, Populists, and debtors saw in the brutal Pullman episode

proof of an alliance between big business, the federal government, and the courts against working people

As president, William McKinley can best be described as

cautious and conservative

Sooners were settlers who "jumped the gun" in order to

claim land in Oklahoma before the territory was legally opened to settlement

The 1896 victory of William McKinley ushered in a long period of Republican dominance that was accompanied by

diminishing voter participation in elections

Among the following , the least likely to migrate to the cattle and farming frontier were

easter city dwellers

William Jennings Bryan gained the presidential nomination of the Democratic party primarily because he

eloquently supported the farmers' demand for the unlimited coinage of silver

The safety valve theory that WEst dampened class conflict, while exaggerated, did have some validity because

free western land did attract many immigrants to the WEst who might have crowded urban job markets

The Pullman Strike created the first instance of

government use of a federal court injunction to break a strike

In the decades after the Civil War, most American farmers

grew a single cash crop

The nineteenth-century humanitarians who advocated kind treatment of the Indians

had no more respect for traditional Indian culture than those who sought to exterminate them

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the volume of agricultural goods _______, and the price received for these goods _______.

increased; decreased

After exploring much of the West, geologist John Wesley Powell warned in 1874 that

land west of the 100th meridian could not be farmed without extensive irrigation

The root cause of the American farmers' problems after 1880 was

low prices and a deflated currency

To assimilate Indian into American society, the Dawes Act did all of the following except

outlaw the sacred Sun Dance