Unit 1 (Populism)
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| show | a group of local farmers who worked together to pool resources to combat the economic and political hardships they faced. This social group becomes the populist.
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| deflation | show 🗑
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| graft | show 🗑
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| inflation | show 🗑
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| long haul/ short haul | show 🗑
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| show | movement led by farmers to fight political and economic unfairness
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| show | Midwestern states attempted to regulate the railroad. Ruled that individual states did not hold power to regulate interstate commerce.
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| show | Required railroads to publicly publish their rates, outlawed rebates, and prevented the charging more for short trips than long ones.
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| Panic of 1893 | show 🗑
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| show | Name for paper money not backed by gold or silver
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| William Jennings Bryan | show 🗑
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| show | Republican presidential candidate and winner in the Election of 1896 who pushed the Gold Standard
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| show | Series of laws passed in western states of the United States after the American Civil War to regulate grain elevator and railroad freight rates and rebates and to address long- and short-haul discrimination and other railroad abuses against farmers.
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| show | A U.S. political party formed in the 1890s to represent the interests of farmers and laborers. It favored free coinage of silver and other reforms and was disbanded in 1904.
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| show | The rail road companies often abused the farmers, with high prices for the use of the rail-line, charging more for short hauls then long, and charging large companies less, then small time farmers.
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| show | was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination.
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| show | is a voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum is anonymous, forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation, blackmailing, and potential vote buying.
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| show | -weather problems
-falling prices
-increasing debt
-dependent upon railroads
-need for cheaper money
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| Railroad Abuses | show 🗑
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| Homestead Act | show 🗑
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| Oklahoma Land Giveaway | show 🗑
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| show | Gave land to establish agriculture and tech colleges. Encouraged settlement of west.
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| Fredrick Jackson Turner | show 🗑
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