Founded in December 1867 as a secret order of farm families with meetings, lectures and cooperative buying, this body pushed midwestern legislatures to cap what railroads and grain elevators could charge. Which organization was it?

Organized in Houston County, Texas on December 11, 1886, this order enrolled Black farmers shut out of the whites-only alliance in the South and grew into a national body of its own. Which organization was it?

In 1887 Congress created a federal commission, required railroads to publish their rates, and required those rates to be reasonable. Which law was that?

In the early 1890s this Kansas speaker toured the West and the South urging farm families to leave the old parties and organize with the People's Party, and became one of the movement's best-known orators. Which figure was it?

In 1890 Congress ordered the Treasury to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver each month and pay with notes redeemable in coin, a compromise meant to satisfy silver men without free coinage. Which law was this?

In the spring of 1894 an Ohio businessman led jobless men on a march to Washington to demand a federal road-building program paid for with new paper money; at the Capitol he was arrested for walking on the grass. Who was he?

Each spring a Georgia cotton farmer signs a lien with the country store for seed and supplies at interest no bank would charge, then must sell at harvest when prices are lowest. Which Populist demand was aimed at that?

Between 1870 and 1895 the price a Kansas farmer got for a bushel of wheat fell by more than half, while the mortgage he had signed had to be repaid in the same number of dollars. Which money demand followed from that?

A Nebraska farmer pays more to ship grain 200 miles over the one line that reaches his town than a shipper pays for 500 miles where two lines compete. Which Omaha demand was aimed at that pattern?

Railroads held millions of acres of land grants beyond what their tracks needed, and foreign syndicates bought large blocks for resale, so settlers found good land priced out of reach. Which Omaha demand answered this?

In the 1890s state legislatures chose United States senators, and farm groups complained that railroad and banking interests could win a seat by working on a few hundred legislators. Which Populist demand answered that?

The People's Party platform adopted at Omaha on July 4, 1892 states: 'We demand a graduated income tax.' What was that plank meant to change?

An Omaha plank says the telegraph and telephone, 'like the post-office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people.' What change did it seek?

An Omaha plank demands 'that postal savings banks be established by the government for the safe deposit of the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange.' What was that meant to give people?

The Omaha Platform demands 'a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the general government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private.' What did 'by the general government only' change?

An Omaha plank demands 'that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita.' What did Populists expect that to do for a farmer carrying debt?

Running for president in 1892, the People's Party's James B. Weaver carried Colorado, Idaho, Kansas and Nevada and drew votes across the plains and parts of the South. What was the result of that campaign?

Gold reserves drained during the Panic of 1893, and President Cleveland called a special session of Congress over the 1890 law requiring the Treasury to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver a month. What did Congress do with it?

After the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan in July 1896, the People's Party met at St. Louis, endorsed Bryan for president, but rejected the Democrats' running mate Arthur Sewall. Whom did it name for vice president?

Bryan closed the 1896 campaign in defeat, McKinley taking 271 electoral votes to Bryan's 176. In March 1900 Congress passed the Gold Standard Act. What did that law settle about American money?