Populism & Farmers
This 1892 document outlined the Populist Party's core demands, including a graduated income tax and government ownership of railroads
What is the Omaha Platform?
The NWSA would protest in front of this building
What is the White House?
This "muckraking" journalist wrote The Jungle, exposing the horrors of the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
He was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard and demanded immediate civil rights
Who is W.E.B DuBois?
This era emerged as a direct response to the corruption and inequality of the Gilded Age.
What is the progressive era?
This prominent Populist speaker famously urged farmers to "raise less corn and more hell."
Who is Mary Elizabeth Lease?
Ratified in 1920, this amendment finally granted women the right to vote nationwide.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 1906 law was passed to regulate labeling and prevent the use of harmful fillers in consumer products
What is the Food & Drugs Act?
Born into slavery, he argued that Black Americans should focus on "industrial education" and manual labor.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This President was known as a "trust-buster" and was moved to act by the publication of The Jungle.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Farmers pushed for the "free coinage" of this metal to increase the money supply and cause inflation.
What is silver?
This group, led by Elizabeth C. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, originally opposed the 15th Amendment because it excluded women.
What is the Nation Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA)
This term refers to the action of making something poorer in quality by adding harmful substances or "fillers.
What is Adulteration?
Du Bois believed this elite group of educated Black leaders should lead the race to equality.
What is the Talented Tenth?
This social reformer founded Hull House and focused on helping the urban poor and immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
The Populist Party was also known by this name, representing the "common man" against bankers and monopolies.
What is the People's Party?
This state cast the decisive 36th vote needed to ratify the amendment for women's voting rights.
What is Tennessee?
This modern government agency, created in 1930, has its roots in the Pure Food and Drugs Act.
What is the FDA (Food & Drug Administration)?
Washington used this famous metaphor to tell Black Americans to stay in the South and work where they were.
What is "Cast down your bucket where you are"?
This specific political reform, demanded by Populists, allowed citizens to vote directly for their U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Although the party failed to win the Presidency, this 1896 Democratic candidate adopted many Populist ideas in his "Cross of Gold" campaign.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Unlike the NWSA, this rival organization focused on a state-by-level strategy and supported the 15th Amendment
What is the American Woman's Suffrage Association (AWSA)?
This 1906 act, passed alongside the Pure Food and Drugs Act, specifically targeted unsanitary conditions in Chicago's slaughterhouses
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
Du Bois accused Washington of this—a word meaning "yielding" or "submitting" to the white power structure of the Gilded Age.
What is Submission/Gradulism?
This poet wrote the 1969 poem "Booker T. and W.E.B." to illustrate the two conflicting philosophies of Black progress.
Who is Dudley Randall?