The Pendleton Act of 1884

set up examinations and standards of merit for federal jobs

Populists in the late nineteenth century wanted

more government regulation of railroads

Why did U.S. army and government officials discourage the Ghost Dance movement?

The worried about a pan-Indian insurgency

What was the primary cause of the extinction of the bison on theGreat Plains by the 1880s?

Overuse of the region's precious few resources

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1
The second president to be assassinated was
Chester Arthur
James Garfield
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
2
Whodid the Populist Party nominate for the presidency for the national election of1892?
James Weaver
Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
James G. Blaine
Jacob Riis
3
The Greenback Party of 1878 demanded
border patrols to stop immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border
more paper money and inflation
the withdrawal of all greenbacks issued during the Civil War
free silver for farmers
4
Muck-raking journalist who challenged the Standard Oil Company
Ida M. Tarbell
Patsy Noble
Thomas Nash
Susan B. Anthony
5
Identify the man who coined the term "Social Darwinism"
Jay Gould
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Herbert Spenser
6
The U.S. government excluded who from citizenship all the way until the 1960s?
Native Americans
Mexicans and Latinos
Asians
women
7
The Pendleton Act of 1884
Gave George Pendleton power to investigate big businesses
Outlawed monopolies
set up examinations and standards of merit for federal jobs
Indicted the Standard Oil Company
8
The only president to win two non-consecutive terms
Rutherford B. Hayes
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Abraham Lincoln
9
Populists in the late nineteenth century wanted
an alliance with corporations
less government involvement in the economy
more government regulation of railroads
all of the above
10
What famous writer coined the term "Gilded Age"?
Edgar Allen Poe
Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
Herman "Golden Boy" Mellville
Chester Arthur
11
Which of the following was a notorious "half-breed" politician
James G. Blaine
Theodore Roosevelt
Roscoe Conkling
Rutherford B. Hayes
12
Why did U.S. army and government officials discourage the Ghost Dance movement?
The Supreme Court indicted the Ghost Dancers as "pagans"
The appreciated the Indians' worship of the Messiah, Jesus
Because Ghost Dancers congregated in gold-rich Black Hills
The worried about a pan-Indian insurgency
13
What was the primary cause of the extinction of the bison on theGreat Plains by the 1880s?
Trains crashing into crossing bison herds
Native American tribes ate all of the available buffalo
Overuse of the region's precious few resources
“Buffalo Bill” Cody’s decimation of ten thousand bison
14
John D. Rockefeller used this business model to corner the market of the entire oil industry
vertical integration
upwards mobility
horizontal integration
public dissemination
15
This1890 Congressional Act forbade secret trusts between companies that set market prices:
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Civil Reform Bill
Garfield Subservience Act

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