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Multiple-Choice Questions

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Question 1.
The People's Party nominee for the presidency in 1892 was:

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Question 2.
The leader of the American Railway Union during the 1894 Pullman strike was:

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Question 3.
In cases like _______________, the Supreme Court repeatedly showed that the federal sphere was allied with capital in the conflicts of the 1890s.

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Question 4.
The Nebraska congressman whose "Cross of Gold" speech electrified the Democratic National Convention of 1896 was:

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Question 5.
The leader of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association for the first two years of its existence was:

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Question 6.
The author, ______________, claimed that humankind had progressed beyond the point where brute strength was the determinant of social status and that women must be equals of men.

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Question 7.
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan believed that to be a great power a nation had to:

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Question 8.
Sensational news-reporting that blurred the line between fact and fiction was called:

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Question 9.
Teddy Roosevelt entered the national consciousness leading his men at the _______________ during the Spanish-American War.

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Question 10.
In the aftermath of the war with Spain, America found itself embroiled in a nasty war in:

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