Social Studies Terms
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- William Jennings Bryan
- Democratic presidential canidate in the election of 1896 who spoke forcefully for silver interest
- William McKinley
- Republican canidate elected in 1896
- Interstate Commerence Act
- federal law to regulate railroad traffic between states
- Southern Alliance
- one of the organizations from which the Populist party originated
- Frances Willard
- head of the WCTU who worked for causes other than temperance
- Thorstein Veblen
- writer influence by Darwin's theory of evolution
- National Women's Trade Union League
- Organization that campaigned for better working conditions
- Bland Allison Act
- legislation in 1878 that strengthened the silver movement
- Patrons Of Husbandry
- national farm organization founded in 1867
- Third Party
- minor politcal party
- James B. Weaver
- Populist canidate for President in the election of 1892
- Henry George
- writer whose proposals for remaking society including the idea for a single tax
- Women's Christian Temperance Union
- organization that waged a campaign against the use of liquor
- Proletariot
- workers without property
- Cooperatives
- non-profit stores owned by farmers in the late1800's