APUSH Chapter 18 Quiz
Marion Cannon, the president of the state Farmers Alliance in California believed that only ________ would allow farmers to get a fair deal.
public ownership of railroads
Which of these did farmers see as acting in ways that were particularly averse to their interests?
steel mills, and textile factories
The near complete exclusion of blacks from Southerners political life took place in the ________.
1890s
Which of these helps explain the intensification of efforts by Southern farmers to organize in the late 1880s and early 1890s
A steep decline in the price of cotton
With which of these statements would W.E.B. Du Bios have agreed?
African- Americans must demand their full political, social, and civil rights without compromise.
________ helped organize the Haymarket Square labor rally that ended in bloodshed and tragedy.
August Spies
In 1882, Henry Clay Frick carried out a concerted campaign to ____
Break the union that represented workers at the Homestead Steel Mill
Which of these new products was developed and produced in the late nineteenth-century South?
Coco-Cola
Why did Eugene Debs oppose calls for a strike by Pullman workers in 1893?
Debs thought that a depression was a terrible time to call a strike and that the workers would likely lose.
Henry Grady and other promoters of the New South were primarily concerned with sparking _______ change.
Economic
How did Congress respond to the arrival of Coxey's Army in Washington D.C?
Federal troops were put on alert, and police scattered the marchers
The _________ had close ties to Eugene Deb's Socialist Party.
Knights of Labor
Which of these was primarily responsible for the creation of new connections between southern communities and between the South and other regions in the country in the late nineteenth century?
Railroads
Which of these political philosophies argued for government ownership of industry?
Socialism
In 1896, Eugene Debs founded the __________
Socialist Party
Which of these constituencies led the push for the segregation of Southern rail travel?
Southern state legislatures
Which of these events led to the creation of the National Guard System?
The Great Railroad Strike 1877
Which of these statements best explain the close connection between the Colored Farmers National Alliance and the black Baptist church?
The black church was one of the few institutions in which black farmers could come together to organize.
Why was the federal government's "tight money" policy of the late nineteenth century bad for small farmers?
The policy made it hard for farmers to pay their debts, get loans, or get the prices they wanted for their crops.
Which of these was true of both the Farmers Alliance and the Colored Farmers National Alliance?
They both accepted women as members and leaders
Which of these did the Knights of Labor have in common with the Farmers' Alliance?
They both sought to give their members the power of a large corporation
How did the 1896 election affect the Populists?
They used their gains to build an even broader political coalition
What was the purpose of the poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses enacted by Southern legislatures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
To disenfranchise blacks
What was Jacob Coxey's solution to the mass unemployment that emerged in the aftermath of the Panic of 1893?
a massive government jobs program
Among other things, the national leadership of the Grange focused on lobbying for __________
agricultural colleges
The writers of the "plantation school" ________
celebrated the virtues of the Old South
During the late 1800s, Southern whites developed an especially great fear of ______
contact between black men and white women
Under Samuel Gompers, the American Federation of Labor focused on
immediate, achievable goals
The Knights of Labor were divided between________
members who harbored deep hatred for industrial owners and union leaders who sought conciliation
Under Charles Macune's leadership, the Farmers Alliance became a _____ organization?
political
