What were farmers' problems, and how did they attempt to solve them during the Gilded Age?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: The simplest answer is that farmers faced declining prices. Better students will point to causal factors such as overproduction and monopolies. Most students will see individual parts of the farmers' strategies: building cooperatives and lobbying for government help. But the best students will put these developments in a larger context. Farmers challenged several prevailing assumptions. They rejected assumptions about the nature of money and pushed for greenbacks. They rejected the assumption of competition and built cooperatives.
They rejected the assumptions of party loyalty and built the Granger and Populist parties. The best students will see the inherently radical nature of farmers' activities.
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A) to let the natives self-govern. B) immigrate the natives to the United States and allow Americans to settle the Philippines. C) educate, "civilize," and introduce the natives to Catholicism. D) educate, "civilize," and introduce the natives to Protestant Christianity.
Perestroika can best be defined as
a. a political purge of dissidents. b. a restructuring of economic and political institutions leading toward reform. c. economic stagnation and food shortage. d. government openness to public discussion.
During his long political career, John Quincy Adams was at one time or another
a. a nationalist. b. vice president. c. secretary of state. d. a congressman. e. president.
What is usury?
a. lending money at interest, considered a sin by medieval Christians b. intolerance of other cultures c. the act of establishing a benefice d. a contract binding a serf to his master e. gifting money to the church