Short Answer Practice

Question 6.20

Part A

The Grange is trying to get farmers involved.

The railroads and big business practices are “running over” the farmers.

Farmers are apathetic.

Partisan politics is involved in the relationship between farmers and industry.

Corruption occurs in the railroad industry.

Economic depressions are caused by railroads and big corporations.

Part B: Farmers The Grange

Omaha Platform

Granger laws

Las Gorras Blancas

National Alliance

Colored Farmers’ Alliance

Populist Party

Crime of 1873

Munn v. Illinois (1877)

Falling prices, overproduction, crop surpluses

Panic of 1893

Higher tariffs

Part B: Gilded Age Politics Interstate Commerce Act

Interstate Commerce Commission

Populist Party

Credit Mobilier scandal

“Crime of ‘73”

Munn v. Illinois (1877)

Wabash, St.Louis, and Pacific Railway Co v. Illinois (1886)

Election of 1896

William Jennings Bryan

Mary Elizabeth Lease

James B. Weaver

Railroad land grants

Part B: Railroads Interstate Commerce Act

Interstate Commerce Commission

Rebates, drawbacks, pools

Robber barons

Great Railroad Strike

Leland Stanford

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Long vs. short haul

Subsidies and land grants

Munn v. Illinois (1877)

Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railway Co v. Illinois (1886)

Pullman Strike

Part C: Farmers

Interstate Commerce Act

Interstate Commerce Commission

William Jennings Bryan

“Cross of Gold” speech

Populist Party

Granger laws

“Silver” Democrats

Greenback party

Bland-Allison Act

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Omaha Platform

James Weaver

Election of 1896

Part C: Gilded Age Politics

Interstate Commerce Act

Interstate Commerce Commission

William Jennings Bryan

“Cross of Gold” speech

Populist Party

Granger laws

“Silver” Democrats

Greenback Party

Bland-Allison Act

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Omaha Platform

James Weaver

Wilson-Gorman Tariff

Election of 1896

Socialism

Eugene Debs

Part C: Railroads Interstate Commerce Act

Interstate Commerce Commission

Populist Party

Granger laws

Omaha Platform

Election of 1896

New markets for goods

Great Railroad Strike

Eugene Debs

American Railway Union