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17 Cards in this Set
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Poor Political Leadership Leads to Reform Reasons
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1) Election fraud
2) Corrupt party loyalty 3) Democratic were supporting banks higher interests rates 4) Refused to reform an unfair tax system that favored the wealthy. 5) Rejected pleads for social legislation 6) Rejected requests to expand public education 7) They did away with the county commissioner system |
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Farmers Alliance
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Not a political party, was a co-op
They try to Influence the legislature |
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L.L. Polk
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Democrat, but supporter of Farmer's Alliance and reforms
Leads formation into the Populist Party Secretary of NC Farmers Alliance President of National Farmers Alliance 1st Agriculture commissioner of NC |
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Populist (People's) Party
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Forms nationally - a lot of farmer support
Includes Industrial working class 1) Tax and election reform 2) 10 hour work day 3) 6% Loan interest rate 4) Restore local control over county government 5) State support for public education 6) End corruption in State government |
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Butler
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Becomes head of populist party in NC when Polk dies.
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Election of 1892
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Democrats win
Populists and Republicans realize that if they join forces they could win against the Democrats |
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Election of 1894
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Fusionists win
Start reforming their platform/but don't win governor |
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Fusion/Fusionist
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Coalition of Republicans and Populists who wanted to bring about economic, political, and social reforms in NC
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Election of 1898
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Democrats say they want to break up the Fusionists
Fusionists were White working class Americans and African Americans Had to break up the Black Votes |
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Gerrymandering
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Establish a political advantage by manipulating district boundaries.
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First White Congress of NC
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Hyman
O'Hara Cheatham White |
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Red Shirts
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Like KKK
Used violence to keep Blacks from voting Disrupt Black church meetings and Fusionist meetings News & Observer was a white supremacy paper |
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Alex Manly
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Black man who ran a local newspaper and posted an editorial - was a response to News & Observer's's white supremacy
He said race inferiority is stupid Squashed the stereotype that Black men liked white women Squashed |
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Jim Crow Laws
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Kept segregation
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Plessy V Ferguson (US Supreme Court), 1896
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Showed that segregation laws were legal as long as equal facilities were provided for each race
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Suffrage Amendment
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In order to register and vote you needed to pay a poll tax and prove that you were literate.
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Grandfather CLause
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If your ancestor had voted before 1867 you didn't have to prove literacy
It let illiterate whites vote, but not blacks |
