In the late 1880s the Farmers' Alliance
A) was simply a social, non-political organization.
B) tried but failed to establish marketing cooperatives for their crops because they could not raise the necessary capital from banks.
C) focused on encouraging the latest techniques in scientific agriculture.
D) elected state legislators committed to regulating railroad rates and establishing rural free delivery of the mail.
B
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Mary Elizabeth Lease is most remembered for:
A. opposing bimetallism and supporting the gold standard. B. advocating the Populist Party and its reform plans. C. supporting the assimilation of Native Americans. D. opposing the civil rights of African Americans during the Nadir.
According to the text, by 1880, "sporting the ‘wrong' type of ornament on one's hat in the streets of Philadelphia could easily trigger a riot." What does this example reveal about citizens of the United States in its early years?
A) their frivolity B) their fervent partisanship C) their intense interest in fashion D) their extreme violence E) their rigid Puritanism
The resourceful Queen ________ of Ndongo sometimes negotiated with the Portuguese and fought guerilla campaigns against them at others.
a. Beatriz Kimpa Vita. b. Nzinga. c. Askiya. d. Khoi.
Congress agreed to create the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) in 2008, spending ____ to buy toxic assets and inject cash into the nation's biggest banks and corporations with the hope that it would stabilize the economy
a. $1 billion b. $10 billion c. $300 billion d. $500 billion e. $700 billion