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1
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what was a movment to increase farmer’s political power and to work for legislation in their interest?

A

Populism

2
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During the Civil War the government issued million of dollars in what?

A

Greenbacks

3
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The increase of money supply without an increase in goods for sale causes what

A

Inflations

4
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What did the government do to get inflation under control?

A

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

5
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Who founded the first national farm organization ( Patrons or Husbandry, or the Grange)

A

Oliver H. Kelley

6
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Grangers pressured legislatures to regulat what

A

railroad and warehouse rates

7
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As the Grange began to fall apart, what began to form>

A

Farmer’s Alliance

8
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Who was the leader of the Farmers Alliance?

A

Charles W. Macune

9
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Members of the Kansas Alliance formed the what?

A

Peoples Party (populists)

10
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Who did the populists nominate to run for president in 1892?

A

James B. Weaver

11
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What was the ratio of silver ounces to gold, in value

A

1 to 16

12
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Populists endorsed what?

A

graduated income tax, proposals designed to appeal and organize labor

13
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Who won between William Jennings Bryan and William Mckinley?

A

William McKinley

14
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One specific problem that greatly concerned farmers was the nations…

A

currency

15
Q

Greenback could not be exchanged for what or what

A

silver or gold

16
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Some people particularly those in the west wanted the government to…

A

mint silver coins

17
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What pooled farmer’s crops and held them off the market in order to force prices up?

A

Cooperatives

18
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Who became convinced the African Americans would never be given a chance to better themselves?

A

Benjamin Singleton

19
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African Americans were encouraged to move where?

A

To Kansas

20
Q

Afriacn American Farmers established the…

A

Colored Farmers National Alliance

21
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Election officials began using various method to make it practically impossible to African Americans to do what?

A

Vote

22
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What section began imposing voting restrictions first?

A

The South

23
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What state began requiring all people to pay a poll tax, and how much was it.

A

Mississippi, and $2

24
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Mississippi also instuted a __________ that one had to pass before voting

A

literacy test

25
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After all the restictions were made, what happened to voter turnout?

A

it decreased

26
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In 1883 what act was overturned?

A

Civil Rights Act of 1875

27
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What court case was it where the Supreme Court set out a new doctrine of “ separate but equal” facilities were allowed?

A

Plessy v. Ferguson

28
Q

How many lunching occured on average per year?

A

187

29
Q

Who launched a crusade against lynching?

A

Ida B. Wells

30
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who fought a lifelong battle against lynching, racism, and sexism

A

Mary Church Terrell

31
Q

What does NAACP stand for?

A

National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored Peopled

32
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Who saw no advantage in given up civil rights, not even temporarily?

A

W.E.B. Du-Bois