Guided Reading Activity 13-4

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SECTION 13-4

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Date

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5 Guided Reading Activity 13-4

DIRECTIONS: Filling in the Blanks In the space provided, write the word or words that best complete the sentence. Refer to your textbook to fill in the blanks.

1. Populism was a movement to increase farmers'

and to work for

in their interest.

2. One specific problem that greatly concerned farmers was the nation's

.

3. To help finance the Union war effort, the United States issued millions of dollars in

, which could not be exchanged for

or

coins.

4. A rapid increase in the money supply without an increase in goods for sale caused

, which is a decline in the value of money.

5. Realizing that their problems were caused by a

, many farmers

concluded that

had pressured Congress into reducing the

money supply.

6. Some people, particularly those living in

, wanted the

government to

.

7.

pooled farmers' crops and held them off the market in order

to

.

8. In Wabash v. Illinois, the Supreme Court ruled that states could not

regulate

.

9. The exchanges had success with

in Texas and

in Illinois.

10. A plan by Charles Macune called for farmers to store their crops in government ware-

houses called

.

11. Populists who attended the Omaha convention called for federal ownership of

and a graduated

.

12. Both the

and the

nominated William

Jennings Bryan for president in 1896.

13. William McKinley's personal reputation helped to improve the Republican Party's

image with

and

.

14. Although the Populist Party began to decline after 1896, some of the

they favored did come about in later decades.

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