12.6 Farmers Rise in Protest

Westward movement into the Great Plains was given added incentive with passage of Lincoln's

• Contract Labor Law of 1885

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Pendleton Act of 1883

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

African-Americans who fled the Jim Crow South to settle on the Western plains were known as

• Black Panthers

• Freedmen

• Uncle Toms

• Exodusters

One of the following was not a new agricultural invention of the late 19th century:

• windmill water pump

• steel plow

• mechanical reaper

• seed drill

Farmers first organized in the late 19th century in the National _______, which assisted farmers educationally and in cooperatives.

• Sodbusters

• Greenback Party

• Grange

• Farmers Alliances

Ironically, farmers' largest problem was the efficiency of their modern farming, resulting in _________ and low farm prices.

• overproduction

• overconsumption

• crop infestation

• low tariffs

One popular solution to low farm prices was a _________ monetary policy, wherein U.S. currency would be backed by silver bullion as well as gold.

• austerity

• inflationary

• deflationary

• supply-side

By 1892, farmer organized nationally into the ________ Party whose presidential candidate proposed reforms including an 8-hour day, unemployment insurance, gov't owned utilities and railroads, and coinage of silver.

• Populist

• Independent

• Socialist

• Know-Nothing

The Populist Party merged with Democrats in the landmark 1896 Presidential Election, wherein their Nebraska candidate William Jennings Bryan's delivered an acclaimed __________ speech.

• Cross the Heart

• Silver Cross

• Arrow Cross

• Cross of Gold

Republican __________ defeated Bryan in the 1896 Election after Republican strategists stoked fears of inflation among city dwellers in the case Bryan was elected.

• Warren G. Harding

• William McKinley

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Rutherford B. Hayes

Populist ideas to reform industrial capitalism such as the 8-hour day, workers' compensation, and railroad regulation were later adopted by the _________ in the early 20th century.

• Communists

• Progressives

• Anarchists

• Reactionaries