Chapter 8 Test US History

The Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court decision

"Separate but equal"

Members of the Kansas Alliance formed the People's Party, also known as the

Populists Party

The Republicans and their candidate, Benjamin Harrison, received large contributions for the 1888 campaign from industrialists who benefited from

tariff protection

In 1883 the Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation by overturning the

Civil Rights Act of 1875

The Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation by overturning the

Civil Rights Act of 1875

The McKinley Tariff resulted in

Created a national budget deficit

As the election of 1896 approached, leaders of the People's Party decided to make the graduated income tax the focus of their campaign.

False

By embracing Populism and its rural base, William Jennings Bryan and the democrats won the northern industrial areas where votes were concentrated.

False

Charles Macune, a southern leader of the Alliance, introduced a plan in which the government would by up all the crops and store them in warehouses called subtreasuries until they could be sold.

False

Greenbacks were paper money that could be exchanged for gold or silver coins.

False

In the years following passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act, the formation of trusts sharply declined.

False

Poll taxes violated the Fifteenth Amendment.

False

In 1900 the United States officially adopted a gold-based currency when Congress passed the

Gold Standard Act

In 1892 the People's Party promised if elected to implement a

Graduated income tax

In 1884 who was the first elected Democratic president since 1856?

Grover Cleveland

From 1877 to 1896, voting patterns in the United States gave the Democrats an edge in the

House of Representatives

In response to the ruling in Wabash v. Illinois, Congress created the

Interstate Commerce Commission

A bill that cut tobacco taxes and tariff rates on raw sugar but raised rates on other goods, such as textiles, to discourage people from buying those imports was the

McKinley Tariff

The Supreme Court case Wabash v Illinois establishes the principle that

Only the federal government can regulate interstate commerce

The Democratic Party of the late 1800s was viewed as

Party of Personal Liberty

Mississippi took the first step to prohibit African Americans from voting when it required that all citizens registering to vote pay a

Poll tax

To win back the poor white vote, Democratic leaders in the South began appealing to

Racism

The Mugwumps were

Republicans who refused to support the spoilsman James G. Blaine for president in 1884 and switched their backing to the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland

Between 1890 and 1899, there was an average of 187 lynchings each year carried out by mobs in the

South

During the late 1800's, members of what organization traveled across the South and West speaking to farmers and organizing local chapters?

The Farmers Alliance

The Sherman Antitrust Act was not very effective initially because

The courts were responsible for enforcement

Jim Crow laws enforced segregation.

True

Not long after Grover Cleveland's inauguration in 1893, the nation plunged into the worst economic crisis it had ever experienced.

True

The Mugwumps expected newly elected Grover Cleveland to multiply the number of federal jobs covered under the merit system.

True

With the Pendleton Act, the federal government had begun a shift away from the spoils system.

True

The Populists hoped to beat the Democrats in the South by

appealing to poor whites and poor blacks

In 1876 and 1888, presidential candidates won the popular vote

but still lost the election

In a newspaper article, Ida Wells reported that three African American grocers in Memphis had been lynched because they had

competed successfully against white grocers

The goldbugs believed the American currency should be based only on gold, while silverites believed coining silver in unlimited quantities would solve the nation's

economic crisis

Unlike in the North, segregation in the South was

enforced by law

When Rutherford B. Hayes entered the White House in 1877 and attacked the practice of patronage, New York's senator Conkling labeled the president and other Republican reformers

halfbreeds

Passed in several western states, Granger laws

limited the rates that railroads could charge

Many farmers joined the Independent National Party because the party wanted the government to

print more greenbacks

Republicans of the late 1800s were viewed as

the party of reform

Under the Pendleton Act, people would gain government jobs according to

their performance on examinations