One of the Most Important Reasons That Voter Turnout Was

question 50

Multiple Choice

One of the most important reasons that voter turnout was so high during the Gilded Age was that:

• A) political leaders of the day were capable of solving the most pressing problems facing the electorate
• B) voters were better educated in the late nineteenth century
• C) the impulse for political reform drove voters to the polls in unheard-of numbers
• D) sweeping civil rights legislation was motivating both opponents and supporters to vote
• E) due to patronage and corruption by political machines, almost every government job was subject to the results of the latest election results

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