History of the Americas Questions
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Southern states passed __________, which rigidly enforced discrimination.
After Reconstruction, many African Americans were __________, or landless farmers who gave their landlords a large portion of their crops as rent. This usually left these farmers in chronic __________.
__________, who wrote The Souls of Black Folk, challenged Washington, because he saw no advantage in giving up civil rights, even temporarily.
Organized labor continued to support the __________ Party and __________ was elected president.
In the late 1800s, mob violence increased in the United States. Many people were __________, or hung without a trial, __________ and Mary Church Terrell both campaigned against this crime.
A movement to increase political power of farmers was called __________.
Members of the Farmers' Alliance in some states formed a third party called the __________.
Many Democrats believed __________ were too high and made it difficult for farmers to export __________.
The assassination of __________ highlighted the need to reform the political system.
Oliver H. Kelley founded the first national farm organization known as the __________ in the year __________. The organization tried to help farmers by starting __________.
The Republican candidate, __________, campaigned by promoting __________.
During the Civil War, an increase in the money supply cause __________, whereas after the war ended, falling prices cause __________.
The Farmers' Alliance organized __________ with limited success.
Who did Lincoln appoint to command the Union Army in the East in 1863? West in 1863?
an arrangement in which customers agreed to buy now and pay later
The most widely used personal barometer of the stock markets health
Paying a small % of a stock's price and borrowing the rest?
gov. would buy surplus crops at guaranteed prices and sell them on the world market
when an investor bet on the market climbing and sold whatever they had in an effort to make a quick profit
in calling shantyowns "hoovervilles" , people conveyed their what?