1. Short Answer Practice Question 6.20

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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