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Essay title: Idents

Populist Party- was a political party that flourished among farmers

Women's Christian Suffrage Association- really for prohibition sought right to vote

National Woman Suffrage Association- opposed the Fifteenth Amendment unless it included the vote for women

Frances Willard- President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union

National American Women Suffrage- most important suffrage organization in the US untill the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

Association- a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose

19th Amendment- intended to extend suffrage to women

Farmers Alliance- was an organized agrarian economic movement among farmers

Cooperatives- a buisness owned and controlled by the people who use its services

Homestead Lockout Strike- A strige between strikers and private security agents, was between the AA and Carnegie Steel Company

Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers- was a labor union which represented iron and steel workers

Pullman Strike- reaction to a 28% wage cut ended because the used the trains for mail so it was a civil offense

Depression of 1893- the statutory limit for minimum gold in federal reserves was reached and U.S. notes could no longer be successfully redeemed for gold

American Railway Union- was largest union of its time included all railway workers regardless of craft or service

Eugene Victor Debs- was a founder of the Inernational Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World and a socialist Party of America candidate for President

Injunction- a court order requiring a person to do or cease doing a specific action

Freeloaders- when actors consume

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