Agrarian Revolt Vocab

Vocab - Agrarian Revolt and Progressive Era

Agrarian Revolt

The Grange – Farmer organization that pushed for education and political reform

Granger Laws – Laws passed in the Midwest by the grange

Oliver H. Kelly – Founder of Carrabelle, FL, and an early leader of in the Grange

C. W. Macune – Founder of the National Farmer’s Alliance who used economics and law

Farmers Alliance – Farmers organizations that were created regionally and the nationally, holding conventions and pushing for reform

Negro Farmers Alliance – Farmer’s alliance regional group with over 1 million African American members

Ocala Platform, Sub-Treasury Plan – A plan submitted at the Farmers alliance Ocala convention calling on the government to erect warehouses in towns producing over 250K worth of agriculture to store surplus crops rather than glut market

William J. Northen, GA – People’s Party candidate elected Gov of Georgia

Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel, he was a Peoples Party candidate elected to Congress from Georgia

Reuben F. Kolb, Peoples Party candidate in Alabama cheated in the Governor’s race

Kolb's Gem – Thick rhine watermelon developed by Reuben Kolb that would not rot in transit north

James S. Hogg – People’s Party Candidate

Leonidas Polk – People’s Party Candidate

Milfred W. Howard – Author of If Christ Came To Congress

The Peoples Party or The Populists – Political party created by the National Farmers Alliance as an option to the Democratic Party

1896 National Election

"Pitchfork" Ben Tillman, Farmers Alliance member who remained a Democrat and did not join Populists

Grover Cleveland – Democratic President in 1896

William Jennings Bryan – The Boy Orator of the Platte; Delivered the "Cross of Gold Speech" – Steels thunder of Peoples Party, adopts its Free Silver position

The Gold Standard – For every paper dollar in circulation, there is a dollar of gold supporting it

William McKinley, GOP – 1896 Candidate

Positive Effects of the Agrarian Revolt – Granger Laws, Use of collective clout

Negative Effects - Jim Crow Segregation

Progressive Era

William Alan White – Kansas City Newspaper editor

Mugwumps – Reform minded democrats and republicans that fought spoils system

Muckrakers – Journalist exposing society’s ills

Henry Demarest Lloyd

Wealth Against Commonwealth

Jacob Riis

How The Other Half Lives

McClure’s

Lincoln Steffens

The Shame of the Cities

Ida Tarbell, History of Standard Oil

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

Municipal Reform

Galveston, TX, 1900 Hurricane

Non-Partisan Commission

City Manager Plan

State Level Reform

Initiative – Put proposed law on ballot to get around unresponsive legislature

Referendum – recall unjust law that has already been enacted

State Level Reformers

Woodrow Wilson, NJ

Hiram Johnson, CA

Charles Evans Hughes, NY

Robert Lafollette, WI – The most progressive of all state level reformers. Wisconsin was a laboratory of progressivism.

Volstead Act, 1917 - Prohibition

18th Amendment

Women's Suffrage Movement

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lucretia Mott

Martha C. Wright

Mary Ann McClintock

Jane Hunt

Seneca Falls Convention, 1848