Populists favored inflation of the currency because it would
a. artificially raise their income and make it easier to pay their debts.
b. decrease the prices factories could charge for their goods.
c. eliminate their debts.
d. force the railroads to lower their prices.
e. not affect industrial workers.
Question -2-The Populist Party was formed by
a. farmers who believed that both major parties were ignoring them.
b. former members of the Know-Nothings.
c. industrial workers who were tired of political machines.
d. southern white Democrats.
e. wealthy businessmen from the Northeast.
Question -3-Political machines most often took hold in
a. big cities.
b. rural areas.
c. the South.
d. the North.
e. coastal regions.
Question -4-Political power in the years following the Civil War was
a. dominated by various third parties.
b. fairly evenly divided between the parties.
c. of little importance in the government.
d. tipped toward the Democrats.
e. tipped toward the Republicans.
Question -5-Despite the tendency of newly-enfranchised black voters in the South to support Republican candidates in the years following the Civil War, why did the South become a Democratic stronghold?
a. Most of these new black voters moved to northern states.
b. Most Southern blacks did not have the time to devote to political participation.
c. Southern Democrats tended to align more with Republicans than with the rest of the Democratic Party.
d. Southern white Democrats found ways to keep blacks from voting.
e. There were just too few blacks in the South.
Question -6-Because of different positions on the issue of slavery, in the 1860 election the Democratic Party
a. almost unanimously selected Stephen Douglas as their candidate.
b. chose to support Abraham Lincoln as their candidate.
c. dissolved.
d. joined forces with the Whigs.
e. split into three factions.
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