The 1896 victory of William McKinley ushered in a long period of Republican dominance that was accompanied by
a. diminishing voter participation in elections.
b. strong party machines and boss rule.
c. greater concern over civil-service reform.
d. Republican gains in the once-solid Democratic South.
e. sharpened conflict between business and labor.
a
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A) John Hinckley B) Strom Thurmond C) Lee Harvey Oswald D) James Meredith
The Niagara Movement leaders stated, "We repudiate the monstrous doctrine that the oppressor should be the sole authority as to the rights of the oppressed." What does this statement mean?
A) Movement leaders thought that blacks should have an active role in determining what they wanted. B) Movement leaders thought violence was the only solution to blacks' problems. C) Movement leaders thought whites had no role in American politics. D) Movement leaders thought that blacks should become the oppressors of whites to solve the problem of American racism.
"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be......The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest." The quotation above would BEST relate to which of the following?
A. Populism B. Social Gospel C. Free enterprise D. Social Darwinism
In the North, the Emancipation Proclamation __________
A) was greeted with general indifference B) was seen by most whites as an act of desperation C) spurred the enlistment of black men in the Union army and navy D) made Lincoln the most popular man in the Union