United States History Question of the Day


James Weaver, Populist candidate
for president in 1892
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Question 1020:

The Populist Party platform of the 1890s supported all but which of the following?

    (A)   government ownership of railroads
    (B)   a progressive income tax

    (C)   direct election of U.S. senators
    (D)   creation of a federal reserve banking system

    (E)   free and unlimited coinage of silver

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