1. Chapter 20: Whose Government
Chapter 20: Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917
iClicker Questions for America’s History, Seventh Edition and America: A Concise History, Fifth Edition

2. 1. Civil service reform became an important issue after President James A. Garfield
appointed corrupt Cabinet members.
was assassinated.
campaigned on the issue of civil service reform.
uncovered corruption in the postal service.

3. Urban League National Consumer’s League NAACP Populists
2. Which of the following organizations was created in 1909 to assist African Americans?
Urban League
National Consumer’s League
NAACP
Populists

4. grandfather clause poll tax lynching literacy tests
3. Which of the following racist parts of southern state governments was struck down by the Supreme Court in the late 1890s?
grandfather clause
poll tax
lynching
literacy tests

5. disfranchisement. lynching. school segregation. alcohol.
4. Ida Wells-Barnett was a black journalist best known for her crusade against
disfranchisement.
lynching.
school segregation.
alcohol.

6. 5. By the 1890s, the position of the Republican Party on racial issues was to
call for the use of force to protect blacks.
pass legislation guaranteeing blacks the right to vote.
offer legislation to support racial segregation.
build white support and leave blacks to their fate.

7. 6. In the 1890s, resistance to white rule and segregation in southern states
met with violence and terror in the service of white supremacy.
led to streetcar boycotts and antilynching crusades by Southern blacks.
resulted in a Back-to-Africa movement on the part of some Southern blacks.
all of the above.

8. 7. Which of the following men did not serve as a U. S
7. Which of the following men did not serve as a U.S. president between 1876 and 1892?
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Rutherford B. Hayes

9. 8. The Populists differed dramatically from the major parties in their support for
A. activist government.
B. racial segregation.
C. free silver.
D. the gold standard.

10. Robber barons. Mugwumps. Populists. Marxists.
9. Reform-minded Republicans, mostly from New York and Massachusetts, became known as
Robber barons.
Mugwumps.
Populists.
Marxists.

11. 10. The gold and silver money issue dominated the 1890s election because
of the economic depression.
the major parties supported the gold standard.
the Republicans needed an issue to defeat the Populists.
the Populists supported free silver.

12. Answer is B Answer is C Answer is A Answer is D
Answer Key for Chapter 20
Answer is B
Answer is C
Answer is A
Answer is D