Populist Movement/ Immigration

How did deflation effect farmers in the US in the period after the Civil War?

• it made crop prices rise making it easier for them to repay their debt

• it made prices crop prices drop making it more difficult for them to repay their debt

• deflation had very little effect on farmers in the period after the Civil War

The Populist Party consisted mostly of which groups?

• bankers and businessmen

• doctors and lawyers

• farmers and industrial workers

• craftsmen and artisans

This organization was formed to help farmers with farming technology and to promote their social and economic needs?

• the Grange

• the Harvest

• the Industrial Union

The Populist Party wanted all of the following except:

• regulation of railroads

• unlimited coinage of silver

• abolition of the income tax

• a graduated income tax

Why did the Populist party want unlimited coinage of silver?

• to decrease the amount of money in circulation and lower farm prices (deflation)

• To increase the amount of money in circulation and raise farm prices (inflation)

• To decrease the bargaining power of labor unions

Who did the Populist Party support in the Presidential elections of 1892 and 1896

• William McKinley

• Grover Cleveland

• William Jennings Bryan

• Donald Drumpf

The Populist Party did not last long but their issues did. Many of their platform issues became law in the decades after the Populist Party lost popularity. Which did not become a law in later decades?

• direct election of Senators

• graduated income tax

• government regulation of railroads

• one term limit on Presidents

These violent attacks on Jews in Eastern Europe drove many to emigrate to the US?

• steerage

• ghetto

• pogrom

• inflation

City neighborhoods that are dominated by one ethnic group or race?

• ghetto

• steerage

• pogrom

• quarantine

Early immigration to the US called "old immigrantion" from the 1840's-1870's came from which regions?

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• Latin America

• Northern and Western Europe

• Africa