People
African Americans who fled the south after Reconstruction for a “promised life” in a new land were called what?
Exodusters
What are large corporate farms that often drove small family farms out of business?
Bonanza Farms
What in midwest city did the People's Party adopt their platform? (ideas that their party upholds).
Omaha, Nebraska
Who was a Populist leader who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. Presidency? Gave the famous "Cross of Gold" speech.
William Jennings Bryan
What is the policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold?
Gold Standard
What political party was formed to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms?
Hint: Also called the People's Party
Populist Party
What president was assassinated by Charles Guiteau?
Andrew Garfield
What act took tribal land away from Indians in an attempt to force them to assimilate into American society?
The Dawes Act
One of the first farmers’ Organization formed after the Civil War was called what?
Grange
Who was the 25th President of the U.S. who ran against William Jennings Bryan?
William McKinley
What term describes the practice of political parties giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on qualifications?
Spoils System
This massacre was the climax of the U.S. Army's late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians.
Hint: Involved the Sioux tribes of southwestern South Dakota
Wounded Knee
Who served as first secretary of the Grange? Also a employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Oliver H. Kelley
What 1883 law created a civil service system for the federal government based on merit rather than a spoils system?
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Network of farmers’ organizations that worked for political and economic reforms were collectivly known as what?
The Farmers' Alliance