Farmers & the Alliance
This group worked to help farmers by educating them and lobbying lawmakers.
Who are The Grangers / Patrons of Husbandry?
This political party was formed to represent farmers and working people . (2 names)
Who is the Peoples' Party, also called the Populist Party?
This is money that a person owes.
What is debt?
This is the political group that many rural Louisianans opposed.
Who are the Bourbon Democrats?
The year the Populist presidential candidate won electoral votes.
What is 1892?
Cooperatives help Farmers’ Alliance members do this.
What is buy supplies at lower prices?
This is what the Populists want the government to do with railroads.
What is place railroads under public ownership?
This helped farmers produce more crops.
What is mechanization?
This is why rural Louisianans oppose the Bourbon Democrats.
What is they did little to help farmers and sharecroppers after the Civil War?
In the farming poster, this was the main idea of the poster.
What is Agriculture supports all other jobs and industries?
This is what a cooperative is.
Who are a group that works together to save money or get better prices?
This is more crops produced than people need or can buy.
What is a surplus crop?
This is the monetary policy that William Jennings Bryan and many Populists supported and what is it?
What is Bimetallism, using both gold and silver as money
This is what the Louisiana Populist newspaper encourage farmers to fight for.
What is fight for their rights?
The 4 states where the Populist candidate won electoral votes in 1892.
What is Idaho, Kansas, Nevada and Colorado?
The problem that farmers faced when crop prices fell and they owed money.
What is farmers went into debt?
This is what Populists want to create for storing surplus crops.
What is public warehouses?
A monetary system in which money is tied to gold.
What is the Gold Standard?
This was a major problem facing farmers that helped Populism grow.
What is Debt and low crop prices?
The 2 movements that sought to represent ordinary people, especially farmers and workers.
What is the Populist Movement and Granger Movement?
This is why farmers wanted to work together in organizations.
What is to protect their rights, lower costs, and improve their economic situation.
These are 3 reforms in the People’s Party platform that would help workers.
What is an eight hour work day, public ownership of railroads, and surplus crop warehouses.
This is why many Populists support using silver along with gold.
What is They believed it would increase the money supply and help people who owed money?
What the author compared in the excerpt from The Louisiana Populist when they said, “If the farmer is not watchful, the weeds will choke out his small grain”?
What is by comparing cooperation's/politics to weeds choking society (farmer/common man).
The main goal of the People’s Party.
What is To improve conditions for farmers and workers through political and economic reforms.