Chapter 13 Section 3
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8 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Oliver Hudson Kelley | starter of Patrons of Husbandry, an organization for farmers that became popularly known as the Grange 1867 |
| Grange | an association formed by farmers in the last 1800s to make life better for farmers by sharing information about crops, prices, and supplies |
| Farmers' Alliances | groups of farmers of those in sympathy with farming issues, whosent lectures from town to town to educate people about agriculural and rural issues, |
| Populism | Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the election of 1892. |
| bimetallism | a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by stated amounts of two metals (usually gold and silver) with values set at a predetermined ratio |
| gold standard | a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold |
| William McKinley | 25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist |
| William Jennings Bryan | United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925) |
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