Chapter 21 HIST- Exam 1 – Flashcards
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A program of "ceaseless agitation" for blacks was advocated by:
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W. E. B. Du Bois.
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The Pendleton Act allowed for the coinage of more silver:
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FALSE
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The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890:
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led to the inflation desired by farmers.
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The center of the black community was the black church:
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TRUE
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Middle-class black women established women's clubs to help the aged and infirm in their communities and to combat racism:
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TRUE
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The Populist party fused with the Republicans in the election of 1896 in an attempt to gain free and unlimited coinage of silver:
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FALSE
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Between 1866 and 1895, the only president assassinated was:
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James A. Garfield
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President Arthur supported both civil service reform and tariff reform:
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TRUE
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During the Gilded Age:
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Congress was evenly divided between the two major parties.
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The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 outlawed corporate actions in "restraint of trade."
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FALSE
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Grover Cleveland advocated laws to regulate the railroads:
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TRUE
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns," said:
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William Jennings Bryan.
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In the election of 1888, the central issue was:
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the Tariff
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The Stalwarts in the Republican Party strongly supported:
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cleaning up the scandals of the Grant administration.
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In Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
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individual states could not regulate railroad rates.
