Review Questions

1. Question

   Why did American farmers organize alliances in the late nineteenth century? (“The Farmers Unite”)

2. Question

   What led to the labor wars of the 1890s? (“The Labor Wars”)

3. Question

   How did women’s temperance activism contribute to the cause of woman suffrage? (“Women’s Activism”)

4. Question

   Why was the People’s Party unable to translate national support into victory in the 1896 election? (“Depression Politics”)

5. Question

   Why did the United States largely abandon its isolationist foreign policy in the 1890s? (“The United States and the World”)