Populist Movement
This occupation made up the vast majority of the Populist Party's base.
What are farmers?
This amendment formally abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This landmark 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This industrialist dominated the American steel industry before selling his company to J.P. Morgan.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What is her favorite color?
What is green, gold, or yellow.
Populists demanded the free and unlimited coinage of this metal to increase the money supply.
What is silver?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This term describes a tax required to vote, used intentionally to disenfranchise Black voters.
What is a poll tax?
John D. Rockefeller controlled 90% of the U.S. oil industry through this massive corporation.
What is Standard Oil?
Favorite chips
What is red Doritos?
This Democratic and Populist candidate delivered the famous "Cross of Gold" speech in 1896.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This amendment prohibited denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These state regulations allowed white voters to bypass literacy tests if their descendants could vote before 1867.
What are grandfather clauses?
Passed in 1890, this was the first Federal act to outlaw monopolistic business practices.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Favorite drink
What is a Mountain Dew?
This 1892 platform outlined the Populist demands, including a graduated income tax and direct election of senators.
What is the Omaha Platform?
This specific clause of the 14th Amendment has been central to most modern civil rights lawsuits.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
This anti-lynching journalist and activist risked her life to expose the horrors of racial violence in the South.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This business integration method involves buying out raw material suppliers and transportation systems.
What is vertical integration?
Favorite holiday
What is Fall and/or Christmas?
This network of local organizations preceded the Populist Party, working to protect farmers from monopoly railroads.
What is the Farmers' Alliance?
The 15th Amendment notably excluded this major group from gaining the right to vote, causing a rift in civil rights movements.
Who are women?
These post-Civil War laws preceded Jim Crow, strictly limiting Black freedom and compelling them to work in a labor economy.
What are the Black Codes?
This derogatory term was used to describe ruthless Gilded Age industrialists who used corrupt practices to maximize wealth.
What are Robber Barons?
How many years have I been a certified teacher?
What is 11?