Presidential Elections
The name of the third party that ran in the 1892 election.
What is the Populist Party?
This is when the winning party/president appoints friends and supporters to government jobs.
What is patronage?
The official name of the Populist Party.
What is the People's Party?
Requiring all voters to pay to vote.
What is a poll tax?
African-American woman who led the movement against lynching.
Who is Ida B Wells?
William Jennings Bryan’s (D) main issue during the election of 1896.
What is free silver?
How is the value of a state determined in presidential elections?
What is population?
These were the main supporters and members of the Populist Party.
The name of the laws that enforced segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
African-American leader who believed blacks should become equal to whites in wealth and education before fighting for rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The nickname given to William McKinley’s (D) campaign during the election of 1896 where he stayed at home.
What is the Front Porch Campaign?
This was used to break up Standard Oil and other monopolies.
Sherman Anti-______ Act
What is Trust?
When there is too much money in the economy and the value goes down.
What is inflation?
Executions without trials that were carried out by mobs.
What are lynchings?
African-American leader who wanted to fight for voting rights and he demanded the changes happen now.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Although Benjamin Harrison (R) gets less votes, he becomes president because he wins the _____________________.
What is the Electoral College?
President who was assassinated in 1881 because he did not support patronage.
Who is James Garfield?
This is the reason Populists/farmers wanted unlimited silver coins
What is causing inflation?
Allows poor whites to vote if they had an ancestor who voted in 1867.
What is a grandfather clause?
Law that gives the government the power to regulate businesses that operate in more than 1 state.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
What is the magic number of Electoral College votes needed in order to become president?
What is 270?
Law that says government jobs should be appointed by merit instead of patronage.
Created the Civil Service Commission.
At least 3 ideas and changes the Populists wanted.
What is the
direct election of senators?
graduated income tax?
presidential term limits?
free silver?
women’s suffrage?
secret ballot?
Court case that established “separate but equal” as legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The reason that 3rd parties run, even though they know they probably won’t win.
What is getting ideas picked up by a major party (R) or (D)?