Directions: Please have a copy of these questions on hand with your answers in complete sentences.
1. In which presidential campaign did the Populists first appear?
2. What groups made up the Populist movement?
3. In what sections of the country did the Populists gain their greatest support?
4. List ten political and economic reforms the Populists proposed in their platform.
5. To what extent did Populists continue to focus on grievances of earlier movements?
6. What percent of the total popular vote in 1892 did each party gain?
a. Republicans
b. Democrats
c. Populists
7. How do these percentages explain why the Democrats adopted several Populist planks and nominated the Populist candidate as their own nominee in 1896?
8. How did William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech prove to be both a strength and a weakness of the Populists?
9. How did Republicans try to project a universal appeal in their 1896 platform?
10. What role might each of the following have played in the outcome of the election of 1896?
a. Panic of 1893
b. Republican party's $16 million campaign fund compared to $1 million available to Democrats
c. Some factory owners paid off their workers on Election Day and told them not to return to work on Wednesday if Bryan won; others threatened to pay their workers in fifty-cent pieces instead of dollars if Bryan won.
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