Unit 8

Group created in 1877 by farmers in Texas that was more politically active than the Grange

• Southern Farmers' Alliance

• Populist Party

• Know-nothing party

• Democratic Party

political party (group) officially called the People’s Party, formed by Farmers’ Alliance members to stop busi-nesses from influencing the government

• Populist Party

• Pooling

• The Grange

• Hogg Laws

residential neighborhoods built outside a central city

• Suburbs

• Ragtime

• refugees

• neutral

moving from a wartime to a peacetime economy

• Demobilization

• primary election

• blues

• ragtime

group created in 1929 by Mexican Americans in Texas to fight for their civil rights

• League of United Latin American Citizens

• Consumer goods

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Great Depression

areas in the Great Plains where drought, lack of rain, caused clouds of dust that ruined crops and killed thousands of cattle during the 1930s

• Dust Bowl

• New Deal

• Populist Party

• Stocks

new programs created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fight the Great Depression by giving people jobs and money

• New Deal

• Great Depression

• Centennial

• Demobilization

reformers in the late 1800s and early 1900s who worked for making changes to improve society

• Progressives

• Monopoly

• Platform

• Consumer Goods

first election in which voters select people to run, or compete, in the later general election

• Primary Election

• Blues

• Platform

• Hogg Laws

very bad economic time all over the world in the 1930s that left a lot of people without jobs or money

• Great Depression

• Dust Bowl

• New Deal

• Centennial