Chapter 13 (4&5)

Question 1

what was a movment to increase farmer’s political power and to work for legislation in their interest?

Answer 1

Populism

Question 2

During the Civil War the government issued million of dollars in what?

Answer 2

Greenbacks

Question 3

The increase of money supply without an increase in goods for sale causes what

Answer 3

Inflations

Question 4

What did the government do to get inflation under control?

Answer 4

stopped printing greenbacks, began repaying bonds, and stopped making silver coins

Question 5

Who founded the first national farm organization ( Patrons or Husbandry, or the Grange)

Answer 5

Oliver H. Kelley

Question 6

Grangers pressured legislatures to regulat what

Answer 6

railroad and warehouse rates

Question 7

As the Grange began to fall apart, what began to form>

Answer 7

Farmer’s Alliance

Question 8

Who was the leader of the Farmers Alliance?

Answer 8

Charles W. Macune

Question 9

Members of the Kansas Alliance formed the what?

Answer 9

Peoples Party (populists)

Question 10

Who did the populists nominate to run for president in 1892?

Answer 10

James B. Weaver

Question 11

What was the ratio of silver ounces to gold, in value

Answer 11

1 to 16

Question 12

Populists endorsed what?

Answer 12

graduated income tax, proposals designed to appeal and organize labor

Question 13

Who won between William Jennings Bryan and William Mckinley?

Answer 13

William McKinley

Question 14

One specific problem that greatly concerned farmers was the nations…

Answer 14

currency

Question 15

Greenback could not be exchanged for what or what

Answer 15

silver or gold

Question 16

Some people particularly those in the west wanted the government to…

Answer 16

mint silver coins

Question 17

What pooled farmer’s crops and held them off the market in order to force prices up?

Answer 17

Cooperatives

Question 18

Who became convinced the African Americans would never be given a chance to better themselves?

Answer 18

Benjamin Singleton

Question 19

African Americans were encouraged to move where?

Answer 19

To Kansas

Question 20

Afriacn American Farmers established the…

Answer 20

Colored Farmers National Alliance

Question 21

Election officials began using various method to make it practically impossible to African Americans to do what?

Answer 21

Vote

Question 22

What section began imposing voting restrictions first?

Answer 22

The South

Question 23

What state began requiring all people to pay a poll tax, and how much was it.

Answer 23

Mississippi, and $2

Question 24

Mississippi also instuted a __________ that one had to pass before voting

Answer 24

literacy test

Question 25

After all the restictions were made, what happened to voter turnout?

Answer 25

it decreased

Question 26

In 1883 what act was overturned?

Answer 26

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Question 27

What court case was it where the Supreme Court set out a new doctrine of “ separate but equal” facilities were allowed?

Answer 27

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 28

How many lunching occured on average per year?

Answer 28

187

Question 29

Who launched a crusade against lynching?

Answer 29

Ida B. Wells

Question 30

who fought a lifelong battle against lynching, racism, and sexism

Answer 30

Mary Church Terrell

Question 31

What does NAACP stand for?

Answer 31

National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored Peopled

Question 32

Who saw no advantage in given up civil rights, not even temporarily?

Answer 32

W.E.B. Du-Bois