Study Guide 5: Populism and Civil Rights

1. How does America's political system change in the 1890s?-

• populist movement, women’s suffrage, progressive era reforms, industrialization, party dynamics changed

2. What role do the farmer's play at the turn of the century?-

Farmers played a significant role in advocating for agrarian interests and economic reforms during the turn of the century. especially in west by railroads

3. How do our civil rights leaders advocate for rights in the Jim Crow Era?-

Civil rights leaders in the Jim Crow Era advocated for rights through peaceful protests, legal challenges, and grassroots organizing.

1. Boss Tweed-

-built many parts of NYC (Brooklyn bridge, city hall worth 13m, more)

-tampered with votes

-helped immigrants

-basically loan shark

2. Australian Ballot-

secret ballot where votes are private but oftentimes was forced

3. "Waving the bloody shirt"-

both sides blamed others for civil war

4. Pendleton Act (1883)-

-reform of civil service by administering bi-partisan exams for federal jobs

5. McKinley Tariff-

-raised the tax by 50% on imported goods so ppl bought stuff from american businesses

6. Bland-Allison Act (1878)-

money backed by silver and gold

7. President Garfield-

-killed by gauiteau

-took 6 months to die

8. President Arthur-

-passed pendleton act

-advocated civil rights

9. Charles Guiteau-

-shot garfield

-stalked garfield

-mad that garfield didn’t give him a job

10. President Grover Cleveland-

-gave union army veterans aid from US

-peaceful and always working

11. The Grange-

-economic crisis

-too many railroads

-companies grew tm

-farms nd business in debt

-farmers wanted relief from high railroad shipping rates

-farmers started making political clubs bc of this

12. Farmer's Alliance-

-alliance for farmer’s concerns including the high railroad shipping rates

13. Colored Farmer's Alliance-

-met in secret

-strike in memphis agianst black cotton pickers

-lynched for doing this

14. Benjamin Tillman-

-red shirts(basically KKK)

-black militia and white vigilantes fought on hamburg massacre

-black militia lost and many were executed

-later on hundreds of african americans were killed

15. Hamburg Massacre-

black militia and white vigilantes fought and it led to bloodshed

16. Simon Coker-

black state senator from south Carolina investigated the violence against black citizens

-tillman’s men executed him

-begged for his life

17. James Wood Babcock-

-worked in asylum

-researched pellegra insanity

-realized beer helped treat this mental illness bc of the yeast in it

18. Pellagra-

-lack of vitamin B-3

-causes dementia

19. The Panic of 1893-

-major railroad fails nd panic causes NYC stock exchange to panic

-ppl sell stock nd buy gold

-depleted treasury

-unemployment

20. How the Wizard of Oz represents Populism-

-dorothy common man

-Wicked Witch east-eastern bankers nd capitalists

-Wicked witch west-western railroaders nd capitalists

-tin mand-industrial laborers

-munchkins-freedmen

21. President McKinley-

-liked urban industrial society

-mckinley populist party won

-took over office at the end of depression

-made gold standard

-relected

22. William Jennings Bryan-

-rural, religious u.s.

-populist party liked bryan

-no like gold standard

23. Cross of Gold Speech-

-william jennings bryan

-at end of debate

-liked free silver/bimetallism

-no like gold standard