Review Questions

1. Why did American farmers organize alliances in the late nineteenth century?
2. What led to the labor wars of the 1890s?
3. How did women’s temperance activism contribute to the cause of woman suffrage?
4. Why was the People’s Party unable to translate national support into victory in the 1896 election?
5. Why did the United States largely abandon its isolationist foreign policy in the 1890s?