1)  Populists (farmers) demanded all of the following reforms EXCEPT:

a)  establishment of a subtreasury system
b)  government ownership of railroads
c)  abolition of the national banking system
d)  prison reform

Hint:  pages 233-237

2) Reforms that were actually implemented in the latter years of the 19th century and the early years of the twentieth century included all of the following EXCEPT:

a)  Terrell Election laws
b)  equal protection under the law and a guaranteed right of suffrage, regardless of  race, color, or creed.
c)  creation of the Texas Railroad Commission to regulate the state’s railroads.
d)  building two state hospitals for the mentally ill, the State Orphans School, and The Texas Blind, Deaf, and Orphan School for Negroes

Hint:  pages 220-223, 227, 233, 235-236

3) Norris Wright Cuney led the Republican party of Texas after the death of:

a)  Lawrence Sullivan Ross
b)  Thomas L. Nugent
c)  Edmund J. Davis
d)  William H. Hamman

Hint:  page 225

4)  John Henry Kirby

a)  built the first major trunk line into East Texas yellow pine timberlands.
b)  created the first major labor union of black lumbermen in East Texas.
c)  created the first multimillion-dollar firm in Texas.
d)  was responsible for bringing reform into the lumbering industry.

Hint: page 211

5)  The most valuable mineral produced in the state prior to the oil strike in Spindletop was:

a) iron
b) sulfur
c) oil
d) coal

Hint:  pages 214

6)  Which statement about the Greenback party is NOT true? 

a) The Greenback party was the first third-party challenge to Democratic political hegemony.
b) The Greenback party advocated an income tax, direct election of U.S. senators and the secret ballot while courting “fusion” with the Republican party.
c) The Greenback party sought railroad regulation, elimination of convict leasing, and the wholesale elimination of useless state government offices in Texas.
d) The Greenback party argued that taking the country off of the gold standard had led to exorbitant interest rates, ongoing deflation of the currency and inflation.

Hint:  pages 226-8

7) Farmers’ Alliance members provided 200,000 potential ________ supporters:

a)  Farm Bureau
b)  Populist
c)  Democratic Party
d)  Republican party

Hint:  page 235

8)  The “Hogg laws” included all of the following reforms EXCEPT:

a)  regulation of how much stock a railroad could issue
b)  forbidding the issuance of land grants to foreign corporations
c)  restricting the ownership of land by aliens to fifteen years
d)  restricting  the amount of bond issues undertaken by county and municipal authorities in order to control indebtedness

Hint:  page 233

9)  The “Cleburne Demands” included endorsement of all of the following EXCEPT:

a) an interstate commerce commission
b) prison reform
c) outlawing speculation in agricultural futures and land
d) non-recognition of labor unions.

Hint:  pages 230-236

10)  Railroads in Texas were subsidized in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

a)  public bonds
b)  private subscriptions
c)  generous municipal and state land grants
d)  sale of the public domain to speculators who in turn sold it for profit to railroad entrepreneurs.

Hint:  pages 204-208