1302 AMERICA – Study Guide - Ch. 22

Lone Star College Mrs. Laura Whisler

True / False:

1.  Benjamin Harrison was assassinated by a deranged office seeker. ______872

2.  The Grand Army of the Republic was an organization of Union Veterans. ____ 876

3.  As president, Benjamin Harrison supported generous pensions for veterans. _____ 878

4.  One of the biggest problems farmers faced was falling commodity prices, caused in

Part by overproduction. ______882

5.  The Farmers’ Alliances accepted female and black members. ______884

6.  After his defeat in 1896, William Jennings Bryan’s proposals were largely forgotten___ 896-7

7.  What did the Supreme Court uphold in Munn v. Illinois? 883

8.  Who were the Stalwarts and how was their organization run? 870

9.  Who put through the Pendleton Civil Service Act and what did it provide for? 872

10.  For what purpose was the Interstate Commerce Commission created? 876

11.  The Cleveland / Blaine campaign was characterized by what type of personal slurs? 875

12.  Who said, “I am now in the last year of the Presidency…and look forward to its close as a schoolboy longs for the coming vacation”? ______871

13.  List (4) things that caused a decline of commodity prices during the Gilded Age? 882

14.  Who were Mugwumps and what was their cause? 873-4

15.  What was the Omaha platform of the People’s party? List (4) 889

16.  Who was William Jennings Bryan and what were his views?

17.  By 1890 what (4) things led to inflation of the currency? 895

18.  Grover Cleveland showed political courage when he vetoed legislation about what? 875

19.  What did the Farmers’ Alliances help do politically? 888

20.  What or whom did William “Boss” Tweed control? 865

21.  Describe voter turnout during the Gilded Age. 866

22.  What did the McKinley Tariff of 1890 do? 879

23.  To fend of Cleveland’s efforts to reduce the tariff, how did Republicans raise over $3 million in the election of 1888? 877

24.  In the election of 1888, Cleveland won the popular vote, but ______

won the Electoral College and thus the presidency. 878

25. To what scandal did the Mulligan letters tie former Speaker of the House - James Blaine?

873

26.  What was the unemployment level in the depression of 1893? 891

27.  In the election of 1896, what element of society found it easier to identify with McKinley’s “full dinner pail” pledge than with Bryan’s free-silver panacea? 895

Matching:

28. Was the Populist presidential candidate in 1892 A. William Jennings Bryan

29. Founded the Grange B. Grover Cleveland

30. Elected to two nonconsecutive terms as president C. James B. Weaver

31. Was McKinley’s campaign manager D. Oliver H. Kelley

32. Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1896 E. Mark Hanna

33. Led march on Washington D.C. to demand that the F. Jacob S. Coxey

federal government provide jobs for the unemployed.