1. Discuss the causes of agrarian discontent in the period 1870 to 1897.
2. Why did American farmers between the 1870s and 1897 generally favor issuing greenbacks and adopting free silver?
3. Discuss the effects of the depression of 1893-1897 on national politics.
4. Why did the Populists decide to endorse the 1896 Democratic presidential candidate, William Jennings Bryan, instead of nominating a member of their own party to run?
5. Explain the relationship the United States established with Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
6. Briefly explain the impact of new photoengraving technology on American journalism and politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.