In the 1892 Election, What Happened to the Populist Party

question 67

Multiple Choice

In the 1892 election, what happened to the Populist party?

• A) It became the first "third party" in American history to win the presidency.
• B) It received over one million votes across the nation.
• C) It won by a large margin in New England and the traditionally Republican farm regions of the Midwest.
• D) It swept every state of the former Confederacy.
• E) It failed to elect its candidate for president, but received more votes than the Republican candidate.

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Definitions:

T-statistic

A type of statistic used in hypothesis testing, particularly in situations dealing with small sample sizes or unknown standard deviations, to determine if there is a significant difference between two sets of data.

Null

Often refers to a value of zero in various contexts, such as null pointers in programming or null hypotheses in statistics.

Alpha

A threshold level used in statistics to determine the significance of results, often set at 0.05 or 5%.

Critical Value

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines whether to reject the null hypothesis, based on the distribution of a test statistic.