3-4 review: Opening the West

Because of low demand, farmers dropped the price of ____________________ 96 cents between 1866 and the mid-1890s.

• wheat

• corn

• barley

• rice

The ____________________ was an organization of African American farmers.

• Colored Farmers' National Alliance

• National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry

• Farmers' Alliance

• Southern Tenant Farmers Union

____________________ is the unlimited production of silver coins.

• Free silver

• Gold standard

• Fiat money

• Cryptocurrency

Populists called for ____________________ that would tax people with higher earnings more heavily.

• a graduated national income tax

• a flat tax rate

• a sales tax increase

• a property tax reduction

What did the Grange create to encourage economic self-sufficiency for farmers?

• cooperatives

• farmers’ markets

• Grange stores

• grocery stores

Which group united to reduce the power of railroads and banks over farmers?

• Democrats

• Farm Bureau

• Farmers’ Alliances

• Great Plains

Which group called for shorter hours for workers and a national income tax?

• Democrats

• Farmers’ Alliances

• National Grange

• Populist Party

The Populist Party wanted to replace the country’s gold-based currency system with a system based on which of the following?

• copper

• diamonds

• free silver

• subsidies

Who was elected president in 1896?

• Grover Cleveland

• James B. Weaver

• William Jennings Bryan

• William McKinley

relating to land and cultivation

• plantation

• agrarian

• cash crops

• region