People
newspaper writer who brought together the issues of the women’s movement (suffrage) and Populism
A political party’s is what they stand for or believe in.
Platform
The movement for universal suffrage in Kansas:
attempted to win the vote for both women and Africans Americans.
worked for Prohibition in defense of the family
Carry A. Nation
Powerful Populist speaker who claimed that Wall Street owned the country
Mary Elizabeth Lease
_______ is the right to vote
Suffrage
The term the Gilded age comes from:
a novel about the materialism and corruption of the late 1800s written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.
Populist elected to the U.S. Congress from Kansas who accused his opponent of wearing silk socks as a symbol of wealth
"Sockless" Jerry Simpson
developed an inexpensive book series known as “Little Blue Books”
Emanuel and Marcet Haldeman-Julius
________ calls for production and distribution to be owned cooperatively or by a centralized government that control the economy.
Socialism
What Kansas newspaper expressed the views of Socialism?
Appeal to reason
The purpose of the “Little Blue Books” was to:
Make literature affordable to everyone
started the Socialist paper Appeal to Reason
Julius A. Wayland
Another name for the People’s Party is the________.
Populist
A stand-off or legislative war occurred after the 1892 election because it was unclear who had won the majority of:
Seats in the Kansas House of Representatives
The same year women in Kansas were given the right to vote in municipal election:
the city of Argonia elected the first woman mayor in the history of the United States, Susanna Salter.
wrote the editorial “What’s the matter with Kansas?”
William Allen White
A group of people trying to influence public officials in favor of a specific cause is call a .
Lobby
In his editorial “What’s the Matter with Kansas” William Allen White:
Complained that the Populists made Kansas look foolish and therefore the state had lost people and money.
Describe the conditions that led to the rise of populism
Difficult economic times for farmers
Drought conditions
High debt and low farm prices
Farm foreclosures
Frustration with inequity of wealth
Belief in the corruption of business ( railroads)