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