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1 | | The Republican Party controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency for but four years from 1876 to 1896. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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2 | | Electoral turnout of eligible voters in the Gilded Age tended to be lower than it is today. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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3 | | The assassination of William McKinley by an office seeker provided impetus to the passage of the Civil Service Act. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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4 | | In general, Grover Cleveland favored lower tariffs. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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5 | | The Sherman Antitrust Act applied initially only to railroads. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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6 | | The so-called Granger laws provided for state government regulation of railroads. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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7 | | The federal courts often overturned decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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8 | | The Farmers' Alliance organization provided the foundation from which the Populist Party emerged. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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9 | | There was a separate Farmers' Alliance organization, affiliated with the larger group, for African-American farmers. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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10 | | The populists sought to build ties with industrial workers but were generally unsuccessful in doing so. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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11 | | Some southern Populists tried to build political connection with black farmers, but the efforts did not prove long lasting. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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12 | | Among the causes of the Panic of 1893 was the interconnectedness of the American economy. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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13 | | Most industrialized nations of the world recognized both gold and silver as backing for their monetary systems. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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14 | | Although the Populists agreed with William Jennings Bryan on the silver issue, they refused to endorse him in 1896 because it would have meant the loss of their identity. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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15 | | In the 1896 election, William Jennings Bryan received most of his votes from the farming areas of the Midwest and mid-Atlantic states. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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16 | | Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, alone among prominent American publishers, disdained the sensationalistic reporting of the Cuban revolution of the 1890s as practiced by the nation's "yellow press." |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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17 | | The American attack on the Spanish fleet at Manila resulted in the most difficult and bloodiest engagement of the Spanish-American War. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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18 | | Black volunteers were accepted for service in the Spanish-American War and black regiments were used in the American invasion force. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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19 | | United States contact with Hawaii began well before the Civil War. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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20 | | The United States fought a brief naval war with England over the dispute concerning the border of Venezuela. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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21 | | By 1895 almost all the population of Hawaii's main islands was of European ancestry. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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22 | | The main trade commodity between the United States and Cuba was cotton. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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23 | | The Spanish-American War was called the "splendid little war" because almost everything went smoothly and efficiently. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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24 | | Theodore Roosevelt was a leader in the domestic opposition to the Spanish-American War. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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25 | | The largest ground encounter of the Spanish-American War actually occurred in the Dominican Republic. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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26 | | Emilio Aguinaldo was the principal leader of the Cuban nationalists until he died in a detention camp prior to American intervention. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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27 | | Chinese "spheres of influence" referred to those Pacific Islands, including Samoa, where the United States had interests that were dominated by the Chinese navy. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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28 | | Alfred Thayer Mahan was the key leader of the anti-imperialist movement that tried to prevent U.S. annexation of Hawaii and the Philippines. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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29 | | George Dewey led the American naval force that captured Manila Bay. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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30 | | When Puerto Rico was declared to be a U.S. territory and its residents were granted U.S. citizenship, all agitation for statehood or independence ended. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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