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She campaigned against lynching in America

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Ida B. Wells

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He founded the farmer’s alliance

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Macune

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He believed that African Americans should exercise and protect their voting rights; one of the founders of the NAACP

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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He organized the migration of African Americans to Kansas

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Singleton

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The populist and democratic candidate for president in 1896; made the cross of gold speech

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William Jennings Bryan

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He thought African Americans should focus on economic improvement instead of voting rights

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Booker T. Washington

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He assassinated Mckinnley

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Guiteau

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These people wanted the spoils system to continue; the man who shot McKinnley was one of them

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Stalwarts

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African Americans who moved to Kansas in a great migration

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Exodusters

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Laws inforcing segregation in the south

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Jim Crowe Laws

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A play written by Frank Baum that some people believe is an allegory of the political battle over the gold standard

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Wizard of Oz

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This allowed a person to vote in the south if he had an ancestor on the 1867 voting rolls

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Grandfather clause

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This act ended the spoils system

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Pendleton Act

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In the 1800s which political party was considered to be the party of personal liberty

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The Democrats

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This was created by Congress in response to Wabash vs. Illinois

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Interstate Commerce Commission

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This action resulted in a national budget deficit

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McKinnley Tariff

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What is one reason the Farmer’s Alliance failed

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They were too small to effect the prices of the products
Railroad was too expensive for them
They loaned out too much money and people couldn’t pay it back

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Segregation took hold in the US when the Supreme Court overturned this Act

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Civil Rights Act of 1875

19
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Which political party was considered the party of reform

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Republicans

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What court case est. the principle that only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce

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Wabash vs. Illinois

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After the civil war, name one thing the government did to control inflation

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They stopped printing greenbacks
They paid off their bonds
They stopped coining silver

22
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What was created by the Pendleton Act

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Civil Service System

23
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The spoils system is also called

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Patronage System

24
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Populist wanted this kind of income tax

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Graduated

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Cooperatives that were started by the farmer’s alliance were large cooperatives that they called

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Exchanges

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The first national farmer’s association was called

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Grange

27
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Renegade reformers whose name comes from the Algonquin word for great chief

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Mugwumps

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Mississippi voters were required to pay this fee to vote

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Poll Tax

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Democrats used this tactic to win the poor white votes in the South

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Racism

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Ida Wells reported that three black grocers were lynched because

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They were doing better than the white grocers

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The populist platform in 1892 wanted what?

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Free Coinage of Silver
Graduated income tax
Federal ownership of the railroads

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Republican reformers in the 1800s were called this

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Half-Breeds

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This act allowed the government to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver and put it into circulation

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Sherman Silver Purchase Act

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His court case est. the separate but equal doctrine in America

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Homer Plessy

35
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When “separate but equal” was overturned, it was the beginning of ___

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Integration (desegregation)

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_______ was when there weren’t laws to ban African Americans from certain areas, it was just a known “rule”

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Defacto Segregation

37
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Made up of all political parties in equal quantities

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Bipartisan

38
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___ got into a debate with a Protestant priest about his faith and ___ didn’t stand up for faith

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James G. Blaine

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What type of segregation did they have in the north

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Defacto Segregation

40
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Why did the Republican reformers abandon their party and support the Democratic candidate Cleveland

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He felt the same way political machines and the spoils system as they did

41
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What did the ICC do?

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Est. interstate commerce commission
Made RR rates “reasonable and just”
Banned rebates
Made it illegal to charge small hauls with higher rates

42
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The McKinley Tariff lowered the tariff on __ and __

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Sugar and tobacco

43
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Against political machines and the spoils system

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Republican Reformers

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