Topic 2 Lesson 4

Grassroots political movement that put farm-friendly candidates up for election

• Democrat Party

• Grange

• Populist Party

• Republican Party

Republican candidate who won the 1896 presidential election 

• Oliver H. Kelley
• William Jennings Bryan
• William McKinley
• Mark Kirchgassner

Founder of the Granger movement

• Oliver H. Kelley
• William Jennings Bryan
• William McKinley
• Mark Kirchgassner

Organization that provided education on new farming techniques

• Grange
• Populist Party
• Oliver H. Kelley
• Farmers' Alliance

After the Civil War, farmers' debt increased as a result of 

• falling crop prices
• lower transportation costs
• their influence in politics
• greater crop production

Farmers' Alliance did which of the following?

• encouraged farmers to disband cooperatives
• established postal banks to provide farmers with low-interest loans
• excluded African 
  Americans farmers
• ran candidates in local elections to end the gold standard

Which caused the rise of Populism?

• rising agricultural prices
• The use of silver instead of greenbacks
• Calls for racial segregation
• The inability of farmers to pay off their debts

Populists favored ALL of the following EXCEPT

• secret ballot
• direct election of senators
• 8 hour workday 
• the gold standard