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1890: struggling farmers formed the Farmer's ____ to help each other, but it failed.
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Farmers formed the Populist Party because they felt Republicans favored industry and the _____ .
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C
Greenbacks were paper ____ that could not be exchanged for gold or silver.
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D
_____ : there is too little money in the economy, so the value of money increases, and prices decrease.
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Greenbacks were paper currency that could not be ____ for gold or silver coins
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_____ money is valuable only because the government says so, opposed to gold & silver, which are also valuable metals.
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G
1867: struggling farmers formed the ____ to help each other, but it failed.
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H
To reach the Klondike, prospectors had to book passage to Skagway, ____ 30 miles over mountains, then sail 500 miles.
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I
_____ is an increase in money without an increase in sales, which causes the value of money to decline.
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J
Since republicans & democrats would not meet their needs, farmers nominated ____ Weaver as their populist presidential candidate.
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K
The Populist goal of increasing the money supply came about following the election of 1896, due to the _____ Gold Rush .
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L
Deflation hurt farmers because now a _____ & a mortgage were more expensive.
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M
Deflation hurt famers because rising interest rates made a _____ more expensive.
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After the civil war, ___ technology allowed farmers to produce more crops, which caused prices to fall.
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Klondike Gold Rush poured millions of dollars into nation's _____ supply, and farmers were less distressed.
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Economic crisis after Civil War led farmers to join the _____ Movement, to increase farmers’ political power.
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One year of supplies was _____ so prospectors didn’t starve.
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100,000 people set out for Klondike to “strike it ____”, but only a few hundred became wealthy.
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After Civil War, U.S. attacked inflation by stopping the production of ____ coins, and then there was not enough money in the economy.
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T
One obstacle facing farmers was a high ____ , which made it difficult to sell goods overseas.
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U
The People's Party failed to win the election of 1896, because they could not appeal to ____ workers in the northeast.
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V
When you increase the money supply without increasing the goods for sale, this causes a decline in the _____ of money.
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W
_____ farmers wanted silver coins issued, in order to solve the deflation problem.
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The Grange created a cooperative, or an ____ , where farmers increased prices & lowered costs.
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1896, prospector discovered gold near the Klondike River in the ____ territory.
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If farmers wanted the government to produce more silver coins, they had to ____ politically.