This speech asks if a nation of 70 million, which has descended from one of 3 million, shall declare that it is “less independent than our forefathers?” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, which declares that you shall not “crucify” mankind upon its title object.
ANSWER: “Cross of Gold” speech
[10m] In its last few lines, the “Cross of Gold” speech also declares that “you shall not press” this object “upon the brow of labor.”
ANSWER: a crown of thorns [prompt on crown or thorns]
[10h] Delivering the “Cross of Gold” speech secured Bryan the nomination over this Missouri representative. This man, nicknamed “Silver Dick,” is the alphabetically-first namesake of an 1878 law vetoed by Rutherford B. Hayes that required the government to buy silver and circulate it.
ANSWER: Richard P. Bland [accept Bland–Allison Act]
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