Gilded Age conservatives who favored a laissez-faire economic policy wanted which ONE of the following?Group of answer choicesA more active government that reformed and regulated the economyThe USA to adopt France's economic systemA “fair” economic system with the nation’s wealth divided equally among all American citizensLittle government regulation or interference in the economy

The Gilded Age anti-monopoly movements’ legacies and outcomes include all of the following EXCEPTGroup of answer choicesWidespread public support for laissez-faire economic policiesThe use of populist language in politics that pits “the people” against a powerful and corrupt “elite”Modern liberalism and government regulation of business and the economyThe decline of farming as a way of life

Gilded Age farmers caught in a “debt squeeze” would have favored WHICH ONE of the following?Group of answer choicesDeflationary policies that lowered the prices for farm machinery and landA cash-free economy based on the barter systemInflationary policies to expand the nation's money supply and raise crop pricesThe gold standard, because that’s what the “Money Power” favored

The three Gilded Age anti-monopoly movements shared all of the following EXCEPTGroup of answer choicesLower taxes for all Americans, even the wealthyA vision of the USA divided between the “people” and a small corporate “elite”The desire to restore a “producers’ republic” in which most of the nation’s wealth went to those who actively produced itFear of an impending national crisis

Modern liberalism includes all of the following EXCEPTGroup of answer choicesA “mixed” economySecurityRepublicanismMass democracy

Which was NOT one of the conservative ideas that informed Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency in 1964, and shaped conservatism for years thereafter?Group of answer choicesintense anti-Communismcriticism of the welfare statea call for expansion of government regulationsa call to reduce taxes