SDC WORLD HISTORY CHALLENGE PRACTICE
EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
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● Inflation. Answer: When prices go up and value of money goes down
● Trust. Answer: A group of businesses who all do the same thing working to get her to keep
their prices the same to share the market and prevent competition
● Commercial farming. Answer: Kind of like factories for farms; cash crop farming
● Farmer struggled due to. Answer: Economic recessions (panic of 1893); other countries
farming wheat were getting more business; limited physical money being circulated
● What did the farmers create in 1867? Goals?. Answer: The Grange; Makes farmers
more of a community through picnics/activities; Help each other out financially; Fought for
Granger Laws which fought for regulation of railway rates
● What was formed in 1870s in TX?. Answer: The Farmer's Alliance; later called People's
Party/ Populists
● Banks would only accept what kind of currency from farmers?. Answer: Paper money
● Tenant Farmer. Answer: A person who farms rents land
● Populis. Answer: A person who tries to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their
concerns are ignored by elite groups
● Populists's Platform. Answer: Graduated Income tax; Gov ownership of railroads,
telephone, and telegraph; Direct election of senators; one term limit of presidency; initiative
and referendums for direct influence of citizens; immigration restriction; free coinage of
silver/bimetal economy
● Which election did Reps and Dems take Populists seriously?. Answer: 1892; 1 million
votes by Populists
● Election of 1896: candidates and issues. Answer: William McKinley (R) -- received
support from the North, supported industry and high tariffs.
, ● Free Silver Policy. Answer: 16:1; so all money would be worth half it's value
● Gold Standard Act. Answer: Signed by McKinley in 1900 and stated that all paper money
must be backed only by gold. This meant that the government had to hold large gold reserves
in case people wanted to trade in their money. Also eliminated silver coins in circulation.
● Why Populists were not successful?. Answer: Appealed to only farmers bc wage
laborers did not want free silver; Appeal to only white farmers bc party wasn't united on
allowing black farmers to be a part of the party and black farmers were loyal to Republican
Party bc of Lincoln
● Purpose of Progressive Movement. Answer: Use state to curb monopoly power; improve
coin person's conditions of life and labor
● Muckrakers. Answer: one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of
corruption among political and business leaders
● Jacob Riis. Answer: Dutch photographer who exposed how the poor lived through photos
● Lincoln Steffens. Answer: United States journalist who exposes in 1906 started an era of
muckraking journalism (1866-1936), Writing for McClure's Magazine, he criticized the trend of
urbanization with a series of articles under the title Shame of the Cities.
● Ida Tarbell. Answer: A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption
of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.
● Thomas Lawson. Answer: exposed the practices of stock market speculators in "Frenzied
Finance" (1905-06), published in Everybody's. (He'd made $50 million himself playing the
market.)
● Initiatives. Answer: Voters can propose laws by petition
● Referendums. Answer: proposed laws submitted directly to the public, on spending or
other economic issues
● Recalls. Answer: The people removing faithless elected officials
● Australian Ballots. Answer: Voters voting at the box in privacy/ bribers don't see who they
vote for
● Wisconsin Idea. Answer: Using experts from universities to help make better laws
● 16th Amendment. Answer: Federal Income Tax
EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
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● Inflation. Answer: When prices go up and value of money goes down
● Trust. Answer: A group of businesses who all do the same thing working to get her to keep
their prices the same to share the market and prevent competition
● Commercial farming. Answer: Kind of like factories for farms; cash crop farming
● Farmer struggled due to. Answer: Economic recessions (panic of 1893); other countries
farming wheat were getting more business; limited physical money being circulated
● What did the farmers create in 1867? Goals?. Answer: The Grange; Makes farmers
more of a community through picnics/activities; Help each other out financially; Fought for
Granger Laws which fought for regulation of railway rates
● What was formed in 1870s in TX?. Answer: The Farmer's Alliance; later called People's
Party/ Populists
● Banks would only accept what kind of currency from farmers?. Answer: Paper money
● Tenant Farmer. Answer: A person who farms rents land
● Populis. Answer: A person who tries to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their
concerns are ignored by elite groups
● Populists's Platform. Answer: Graduated Income tax; Gov ownership of railroads,
telephone, and telegraph; Direct election of senators; one term limit of presidency; initiative
and referendums for direct influence of citizens; immigration restriction; free coinage of
silver/bimetal economy
● Which election did Reps and Dems take Populists seriously?. Answer: 1892; 1 million
votes by Populists
● Election of 1896: candidates and issues. Answer: William McKinley (R) -- received
support from the North, supported industry and high tariffs.
, ● Free Silver Policy. Answer: 16:1; so all money would be worth half it's value
● Gold Standard Act. Answer: Signed by McKinley in 1900 and stated that all paper money
must be backed only by gold. This meant that the government had to hold large gold reserves
in case people wanted to trade in their money. Also eliminated silver coins in circulation.
● Why Populists were not successful?. Answer: Appealed to only farmers bc wage
laborers did not want free silver; Appeal to only white farmers bc party wasn't united on
allowing black farmers to be a part of the party and black farmers were loyal to Republican
Party bc of Lincoln
● Purpose of Progressive Movement. Answer: Use state to curb monopoly power; improve
coin person's conditions of life and labor
● Muckrakers. Answer: one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of
corruption among political and business leaders
● Jacob Riis. Answer: Dutch photographer who exposed how the poor lived through photos
● Lincoln Steffens. Answer: United States journalist who exposes in 1906 started an era of
muckraking journalism (1866-1936), Writing for McClure's Magazine, he criticized the trend of
urbanization with a series of articles under the title Shame of the Cities.
● Ida Tarbell. Answer: A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption
of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.
● Thomas Lawson. Answer: exposed the practices of stock market speculators in "Frenzied
Finance" (1905-06), published in Everybody's. (He'd made $50 million himself playing the
market.)
● Initiatives. Answer: Voters can propose laws by petition
● Referendums. Answer: proposed laws submitted directly to the public, on spending or
other economic issues
● Recalls. Answer: The people removing faithless elected officials
● Australian Ballots. Answer: Voters voting at the box in privacy/ bribers don't see who they
vote for
● Wisconsin Idea. Answer: Using experts from universities to help make better laws
● 16th Amendment. Answer: Federal Income Tax
