Module 2

Question 1

Why was the populist party so radical

Answer 1

• Because the government owned railroads etc, governments control of currency, and and the support of the union

Question 2

What was the cross of gold speech and who gave it?

Answer 2

Speech given by william Jennings Bryan

He wanted silver to be buliton standard not gold

Question 3

Winner of 1986 Election

Answer 3

William Mckinley

Question 4

Canadates of 1986 election and what partys they represented

Answer 4

William Mckinley (Republican)
William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)

Question 5

Platform for Populist party

Answer 5

-Gov owns all public utilities
-Better public schools
-Anti-Slavery

Question 6

Who was Mary Lease

Answer 6

Worked for the populist party, and advocated for suffrage and women’s rights

Question 7

Who was C.W macune

Answer 7

Leader of Southern Farmers Alliance

Question 8

Who was Sam Hose, Jesse Washington, ED johnson and what happend to them

Answer 8

They were all lynched for fighting aginst seggregation

Question 9

What was lynching

Answer 9

The burning, hanging, torture, or shooting for African Americans.

Question 10

Causes of Lynching

Answer 10

• High Tariffs
• New financial order
  -Corporate trusts
• Racism

Question 11

What legal tactics post reconstruction restricted African Americans form voting

Answer 11

• All criminals were barred from voting
  -Australian Ballot
  -Time Limit
  -Violece
• Literacy tests

Question 12

Comstock Act and how it affected society

Answer 12

Prohibited and shipment of mail that could be offencive (books, Art, Birth Chontol are all examples.0

Question 13

What did the womens christian temperance union stand for

Answer 13

Wantes to ban sale of alcohol everywhere

Question 14

What does the plauge of drugs refer to in post civil war era, how does it parralel to today

Answer 14

Its opposite of today, because back then they thought drugs had no side effects.

Question 15

Define Blue Laws.

Question 16

What was the Compromise of 1877? What were the causes behind the compromise and what lasting impact did it have on Reconstruction?

Question 17

What were some of the consequences of the Compromise of 1877?

Question 18

Explain: the South was a colonial economy of the North.

Question 19

Who composed the Southern Farmer’s Alliance? What contributions did they make? What was their platform? Were they successful?

Question 20

What was William McKinley’s catchphrase during the 1896 election? What did it mean?

Question 21

What was so radical about the Populist Party?