Chapter 17 pages 576-581

1. What happens to constitutional rights of Black's in South? What are poll taxes, literacy test and understanding clauses all about? What happens to the life of Black-Americans in the "New South"? What are Jim Crow laws?

2. What does the Plessy v. Ferguson decision do?

3. Who was Booker T. Washington? What is the so called "Atlanta Compromise"?

4. Who were the Grangers and what did they start out to do? What were the so called Granger laws? What do farmers think about railroads, bankers and money?

5. What was the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act? What did it really do?

6. Why were farmers in debt? How did the Alliance Movement address the debt problem? What issue divides Southern farmers?

Chapter 16 pages 547-548

Describe the election of 1876. Who got more popular votes Hayes or Tilden? With the compromise of 1877 what happens to Reconstruction, the 14th and 15th amendments?

Chapter 19 pages 624-631 and 639-650

1.What do you think of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley title for this period of history, "The Gilded Age".

2. Why did both the Democratic and Republican parties avoid taking clear stands on major national issues? What groups were attracted to either the Republican or Democratic party? What were the major national issues of the era?

3. Why did President Garfield's death help bring about civil service reform?

4. Why were voting percentages so high?

5. What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act say? Did the courts support it at first?

6. Why does the text say the Republicans stop supporting the vote for Blacks in the South? What does you teacher give as the reason?

7. The People's Party or the Populist are a coalition of Alliance Movement in the 1890's. What did the Populist party platform of 1892 call for? According to the Populist what should the role of the federal government and farmers be? What problem did the Populist face in the South?

8. What does William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech, at the Democratic convention, do to the Populist as a political party? Who financed McKinley’s 1896 media campaign? With Democrats siding with Populists and the farmers why is the following statement true?

The Presidential campaign of l896 represent a battle between a Democratic Party that was committed to try and rollback the economic, social and political clock, and a Republican Party that was looking toward a promising future.