Gold and Silver
Monetary system where a country's currency value is directly tied to a fixed amount of gold
The Gold Standard
Author of your textbook in this class who is an expert on the history of Reconstruction
Eric Foner
Leader of the Populist Party who ran for President three times (losing each time).
William Jennings Bryan
"Teddy" Roosevelt, The Rough Rider, The Bull Moose
or The Colonel
He is famous for his "Turner Thesis" about the American Frontier in the West
Frederick Jackson Turner
William Jennings Bryan called for a monetary system backed by gold and this metal
Silver
The three "Reconstruction" or "Civil War" Amendments to the Constitution
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
Popular name for William Jennings Bryan's 1896 speech where he famously declared that mankind would not be "crucified by the Gold standard
The Cross of Gold Speech
Theodore Roosevelt was a member of this political party when he was Vice-President under William McKinley
The Republican Party
The Gold Rush [of 1848]
One of several reasons that Populists wanted bimetallism
Inflation
or
Repayment of Debt
or
Increased Access to Capital
White Supremacist paramilitary organization founded in 1865 to suppress African American Political power in the South
[First] Ku Klux Klan
Two farmers' groups (or associations) who supported Populist party goals
The Grange or the Farmers Alliance
The Progressive (or Bull Moose) Party
Law that offered white settlers federal land grants in the West (passed during the Civil War)
The Homestead Act of 1862
Paper bills issued as currency (money) by the Union during the Civil War in 1862.
Greenbacks
Mississippi senator who was the first African American to serve in the U.S Congress
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Another name for the Populist Party
The People's Party
Roosevelt's policy calling for the right of the U.S. to police the Western Hemisphere
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
U.S. President during Reconstruction who achieved success in his Western Campaign during the Civil War from 1861 to 1863
Ulysses S. Grant
President who has assassinated in 1901 who signed a law that put the U.S. on the Gold Standard in 1900
President William McKinley
Founder of the First Ku Klux Klan
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Populist support for the direct election of U.S. senators (by the people) instead of state legislatures became law by this Constitutional Amendment in 1913
17th Amendment
The name of Theodore Roosevelt's first wife who died on the exact same day that his mother died
Alice Roosevelt
Law that prohibited Chinese immigration to the US in 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act (of 1882)