The Robber Barons
Banking and finance titan of the Gilded Age
JP Morgan
Populists wanted U.S. currency (money) to be backed by this metal instead of the Gold Standard
Silver
Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery
13th Amendment
Andrew Johnson
1862 Act (law) passed by Congress that granted 160 acres of public land to western settlers who lived on and improved the land for five years
The Homestead Act of 1862
Railroad and shipping magnate who began his business career by operating a ferry between Staten Island and Manhattan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Populist Party leader who famously gave his "Cross of Gold Speech" at the 1896 Democratic Party National Convention
William Jennings Bryan
Constitutional amendment that gave African American males the right to vote
The 15th Amendment
Union General who was President from 1869-1877
Ulysses S. Grant
Great Plains animal that became nearly extinct due to commercial hunting and railroad construction in the 19th Century
American Buffalo
His Standard Oil Company Trust controlled 90% of the oil refinery industry in the 1890s
John D. Rockefeller
1892 Populist Party Platform
The Omaha Platform
Laws passed by congress to suppress (put down) the Ku Klux Klan in 1870 and 1871
The Enforcement Acts
Republican who became President as a result of the [Corrupt] Bargain of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
1876 Battle at which General Custer and more than 200 American cavalry died in combat against Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians
Battle of Little Bighorn
Steel tycoon and philanthropist who wrote an article in 1889 called The Gospel of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie
The Populist Party merged with this political party in 1896
The Democratic Party
1867 and 1868 laws passed by congress over President Johnson's veto that placed the former Confederate states under military rule
The Reconstruction Acts
Charles Sumner
Bonanza Farms
Railroad tycoon who founded a world-renowned botanical garden, library, and research institute in San Marino (near Pasadena) in 1919
Henry E. Huntington
Farmers' organization founded in 1877 that promoted collective economic action to fight the "money trust"
The Farmers' Alliance
Constitutional Amendment that (among other rights) granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
The 14th Amendment
Democrat who ran against Hayes in the Presidential Election of 1876
Samuel J. Tilden
Ritual dance that Native Americans practiced to end oppression by white settlers and restore buffalo population of the Great Plains
Ghost Dance