History 1302 Test 1 Questions and All
Correct Answers 2025/2026 Updated.
Inflation - Answer a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money
Deflation - Answer reduction of the general level of prices in an economy
In order, the Presidents of the Gilded Age - Answer 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes
1880 James A. Garfield
1881 Chester A. Arthur
1884 Grover Cleveland
1888 Benjamin Harrison
1892 Grover Cleveland
1896 William Mckinley
Planks of the Populist Party Platform in 1892 - Answer Government ownership of the
railroads, graduated income tax, free and unlimited coinage of silver, popular election of US
senators, secret voting ballot, restriction of immigration, Govt. control of excess lands, postal
savings system
What happened in the election 1888? - Answer 1.) Cleveland win the popular vote
2.) Harrison wins Electoral College WINS
The republicans wanted to win the office back so they sabotaged Cleveland by publishing the
Murchison letter.
Why did J.P. Morgan purchase 65,000,000 shares of U.S. Bonds and pay for them in gold? -
Answer To restore the publics confidence by putting gold back in the system when it was
rare. Stock market needed help
What and when and where was the Burchard incident? - Answer -Late in election of 1884
-Maine
-A group of protestant clergymen led a meeting with Reverend Burchard and called the
, the U.S. for sale-which in turn means taxes cannot be collected) this caused the government
surplus to dwindle- House Rep. William McKinley (author of bill) would be defeated in next
campaign in Ohio
What were reasons given in class for the North to allow the South to take away the rights of
southern blacks? - Answer North realized it was hypocritical, humanitarian interest in blacks
were fading they were tired. Many old abolitionist leader were dead. Social Darwinism. North
politicians and businessmen who had alliances with the south white men withdrew their
demands. North thought south could handle black problem.
What was the Southern Redeemer Democrats attitude toward the black vote until the 1890s? -
Answer Intimidation and violence against black votes and their allies to reduce black voting
How did the sharecrop system work? - Answer Tenants who worked on the overruns land in
return for supplies and a share of the crop
Landowner get 2/3- tenant gets 1/3, caused debts, tenants lived on the 3 m's
(meat, meal, molasses)
No written contract about these systems and both lacked capital, so they did not make or
produce enough money to hire these people
How good an industry was the textile industries of the south in terms of "quality of life?" -
Answer Bad quality of life. Young children working. Dangerous working conditions. Lots of
injuries and deaths. Low wages.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois - Answer Washington believed that African-
Americans should improve themselves over time through education and utility by being the
"thumb on the hand" of America, whereas DuBois believed that equality could be achieved
without the help of whites and demanded immediate equality
Why did the sharecrop system develop in the South after the civil war? - Answer Former
slave had no money or land but refused to work a job that resembled slavery. Agreed to system
because they could make cash.
Where was iron and coal industry developed in the South? - Answer Birmingham, Alabama
Correct Answers 2025/2026 Updated.
Inflation - Answer a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money
Deflation - Answer reduction of the general level of prices in an economy
In order, the Presidents of the Gilded Age - Answer 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes
1880 James A. Garfield
1881 Chester A. Arthur
1884 Grover Cleveland
1888 Benjamin Harrison
1892 Grover Cleveland
1896 William Mckinley
Planks of the Populist Party Platform in 1892 - Answer Government ownership of the
railroads, graduated income tax, free and unlimited coinage of silver, popular election of US
senators, secret voting ballot, restriction of immigration, Govt. control of excess lands, postal
savings system
What happened in the election 1888? - Answer 1.) Cleveland win the popular vote
2.) Harrison wins Electoral College WINS
The republicans wanted to win the office back so they sabotaged Cleveland by publishing the
Murchison letter.
Why did J.P. Morgan purchase 65,000,000 shares of U.S. Bonds and pay for them in gold? -
Answer To restore the publics confidence by putting gold back in the system when it was
rare. Stock market needed help
What and when and where was the Burchard incident? - Answer -Late in election of 1884
-Maine
-A group of protestant clergymen led a meeting with Reverend Burchard and called the
, the U.S. for sale-which in turn means taxes cannot be collected) this caused the government
surplus to dwindle- House Rep. William McKinley (author of bill) would be defeated in next
campaign in Ohio
What were reasons given in class for the North to allow the South to take away the rights of
southern blacks? - Answer North realized it was hypocritical, humanitarian interest in blacks
were fading they were tired. Many old abolitionist leader were dead. Social Darwinism. North
politicians and businessmen who had alliances with the south white men withdrew their
demands. North thought south could handle black problem.
What was the Southern Redeemer Democrats attitude toward the black vote until the 1890s? -
Answer Intimidation and violence against black votes and their allies to reduce black voting
How did the sharecrop system work? - Answer Tenants who worked on the overruns land in
return for supplies and a share of the crop
Landowner get 2/3- tenant gets 1/3, caused debts, tenants lived on the 3 m's
(meat, meal, molasses)
No written contract about these systems and both lacked capital, so they did not make or
produce enough money to hire these people
How good an industry was the textile industries of the south in terms of "quality of life?" -
Answer Bad quality of life. Young children working. Dangerous working conditions. Lots of
injuries and deaths. Low wages.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois - Answer Washington believed that African-
Americans should improve themselves over time through education and utility by being the
"thumb on the hand" of America, whereas DuBois believed that equality could be achieved
without the help of whites and demanded immediate equality
Why did the sharecrop system develop in the South after the civil war? - Answer Former
slave had no money or land but refused to work a job that resembled slavery. Agreed to system
because they could make cash.
Where was iron and coal industry developed in the South? - Answer Birmingham, Alabama
