Unit 4: The Populist Party

• promotion of the interests of small farmers, ranchers, and laborers
• preservation of public land/protection of land from large landowners
• regulation of the railroads
• increase of the amount of money in circulation
Which group of people pushed for the reforms listed in the list?

• Buffalo Soldiers
• Populists
• Progressives
• Social Darwinists

WHAT POLITICAL PARTY FORMED BY FARMERS IN 1891 MADE DEMANDS TO REFORM MONEY, TRANSPORTATION AND GOVERNMENT?

• Progressive
• Populist
• Democrat
• Republican

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE BEST EXPLANATION FOR THE FAILURE OF POPULISM AS A NATIONAL POLITICAL MOVEMENT? 

•  CAMPAIGN BY THE MAJOR PARTIES TO DISCREDIT POPULIST LEADERS
• THE FAILURE OF POPULISM TO ATTRACT VOTERS OUTSIDE ITS NARROW GEOGRAPHIC BASE
• THE RETURN OF GENERAL PROSPERITY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
• THE BEGINNING OF HOSTILITIES LEADING TO THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING WERE POPULIST DEMANDS EXCEPT WHICH ONE?

• RETURN TO THE GOLD STANDARD
•  GRADUATED PERSONAL INCOME TAX
• GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS
• EASIER BANK CREDIT

The Populist Party demanded which of the following changes?

• The use of gold alone as a basis of the nation’s currency
• A graduated income tax in which the wealthy people paid more
•  Private ownership of the railroads, telegraphs, and telephones
• Less government regulation

What was the most important goal of the Populist Party?

• Creation of government grain warehouses
•  Increase in the amount of money in circulation
• Regulation of big business by the government
• None of the above

All of the following statements are true about the Populist Party of the late 1800’s except which one? 

• Farmers, suffering from debt, deflation, and railroads monopolies, turned to Populism
•  Populist lived in large cities of the North
• Most Populists came from farms in the Northwest and South
• Populism declined because of an improving national economy

Which of the following would have not been a member of the Populist Party? 

• farmer
• owner of a small business
• banker
• William Jennings Bryan

Who was considered the leader of the Populists?

• William McKinley
• William Jennings Bryan
• Mark Twain
• U S Grant

What is the "cross of gold" speech about?

The excerpt below is from William Jennings Bryan’s speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention.

“Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: ‘You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.’ ”

• letting the rich know that the workig poor will not allow to be economically abused by the gold standard

• letting the poor know that the rich will not allow to be economically taken advantage by the gold standard

• letting the ruch know that the workig poor will not allow to be economically abused by bimetallism