EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉The Ocala Platform was primarily based on the belief that.
Answer: increasing the money supply would help farmers who were
in debt
◉The Ocala Platform proved an important link between the alliance
movement and which of the following later groups?. Answer: The
Populists
◉The excerpt best illustrates which of the following issues of that
time?. Answer: Migrants and Native Americans were clashing over
tribal lands
◉Which of the following best explains the relationship of the United
States government and Native American tribes before 1871?`.
Answer: Native tribes were recognized as "nations" within the
United States
◉The key idea in the excerpt is that Grady believes. Answer: the
South needed to industrialize
, ◉Which of the following best demonstrates a change or condition
that reflected Grady's hopes for the South?. Answer: Railroads,
textile mills, and steel factories developed.
◉Grady's comments best express the viewpoint of which group of
people?. Answer: Southerners who advocated developing a New
South
◉What did Edison mean with the claim that "there is no similar
institutions in Existence"?. Answer: He had created the first
laboratory dedicated to producing inventions.
◉How did the development described in the excerpt cause a lasting
change in how science and industry operated?. Answer: It promoted
the idea that teams of people working together could invent new
products profitably.
◉Sumner most clearly expresses ideas associated in the 19th
century with. Answer: Charles Darwin's explanation on why some
species survive and others do not in "On the Origin of Species"
◉Supporters of the position expressed by Sumner would likely
defend. Answer: laissez-faire capitalism because it reduced business
regulations