World War I
U.S. President during World War I
Woodrow Wilson
Populist who gave his famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic Party's National Convention in Chicago in 1896
William Jennings Bryan
Constitutional Amendment that enacted Prohibition in 1919
The 18th Amendment
President who glorified the "yeoman farmer" as the ideal American
Thomas Jefferson
University founded by Jefferson in 1819
University of Virginia
British ocean-liner sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915, resulting in the death of 128 American passengers
RMS Lusitania
Name of one of two farming groups that helped found the American Populist Party in the nineteenth century
The Farmer's Alliance or The Grange
1919 law designed to enforce Prohibition
The Volstead Act
A horse-drawn, mechanical harvesting machine invented in 1831 that revolutionized agriculture by significantly speeding up the process of harvesting grain crops like wheat
McCormick's Reaper
Thomas Jefferson's friend who served as the fourth President of the Untied States
James Madison
Treaty that ended World War I
Versailles Treaty (1919)
Name of the Populist (People's) Party's 1892 Platform
The Omaha Platform
Constitutional amendment that repealed Prohibition
The 21st Amendment (1933)
Period of severe dust storms on the Great Plains in 1930's that caused topsoil erosion and one among many asserted causes of the Great Depression
Dust Bowl
Monticello
U.S. Senate committee that investigated alleged unlawful war profiteering by American arms factories during World War I
The Nye Committee
Populist Party goal that contributed to the passage of the Seventeenth Amenmdent in 1913
Direct election of U.S. senators
Women's political group founded in 1874 that supported Prohibition
WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union)
U.S. state with the highest annual agricultural output (approximately $60 billion in 2023) of all states in the nation
California
College that Jefferson attended
The College of William & Mary
German Emperord during World War I
Kaiser Wilhelm II
William Jennings Bryan's cabinet position during the Wilson administration that he resigned from before the start of World War I
Secretary of State
Clandestine bars and clubs in the 1920s popular for meeting to unlawfully purchase and consume alcohol
Speakeasies
U.S. Presudent who once operarated his family's peanut farm in Archery, Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Thomas Jefferson's cabinet position in President George Washington's cabinet
Secretary of State