Farmers' Challenges & Responses - SS.912.A.3.1
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Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s.
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Select all of the true statements about the Homestead Act
It encouraged westward migration
Farmers found the land difficult to grow crops on
It excluded African Americans
It contributed the US becoming a major food exporter
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Which of the following was NOT a problem faced by farmers?
Overproduction
Rising crop prices
Debt and foreclosure
High shipping costs
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Farmers began to
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Select all of the true statements about the Populist Party
They were unable to get any of their party members elected
They called for the regulation of railroad companies
They supported bimetallism
They did not want common people to have a stronger voice in the government
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The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan in support of
the gold standard
deflation
bimetallism
the Homestead Act
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Which political party hoped to represent the working class, calling for government ownership of railroads, bimetallism, and direct election of senators?
Populist Party
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Free Soil Party
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"Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them; you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
In this speech, who was being crushed and by what?
Bankers by the gold standard
Farmers by the gold standard
Industrialists by bimetallism
William Jennings Bryan by the silver standard
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Why did the Populist party want unlimited coinage of silver?
To increase the amount of money in circulation and raise farm prices
To reduce economic inflation
To raise campaign contribution limits
To decrease the bargaining power of labor unions
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