Populism Vocabulary Words

An act of supporting a change or creation of an issue on a local, state, or federal level

• Farmer's Alliance

• Cooperatives

• Populists

• Political Advocacy

Businesses owned and controlled by the people who use them

• The Grange

• Munn vs. Illinois

• Cooperatives

• bimetallism

Rule of a single person such as a king or queen

• Farmer's Alliance

• direct election

• Bourbon Democrats

• Monarchy

Addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business

• Interstate Commerce Act

• overproduction

• The Grange

• sharecroppers

Where the voters directly cast ballots for the candidates or political party that they desire to see elected

• direct election

• cooperatives

• gold standard

• Populists

Tax brackets where tax rates increase as income increases

• Populists

• Graduated income tax

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Bourbon Democrats

The idea that common people have the capability and power to have control over their government

• The Grange

• Graduated income tax

• Wabash v. Illinois

• Populists

A movement during the 1870s and '80s that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy

• protective tariff

• Farmer's Alliance

• overproduction

• Munn v Illinois

The first successful national farming organization founded in 1867

• The Grange

• Direct election

• sharecropper

• Wabash v. Illinois

Members within the Democratic Party in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were conservative Democrats, primarily representing the interests of the Southern states

• gold standard

• Munn v Illinois

• Bourbon Democrats

• bimetallism