The platform also called for a graduated income tax, direct election of Senators, a shorter workweek, restrictions on immigration to the United States, and public ownership of railroads and communication lines. The Populists appealed most strongly to voters in the South, the Great Plains, and the Rocky Mountains.
Not following the Jim Crow laws would be a huge problem for African-American people depending on what they did. They could be incarcerated, fined, beaten, or even worse, lynched and killed. A famous African-American child was killed by an angry mob after a white woman claimed that his behavior was inappropriate and what's even worse is that the people who killed him were acquitted.
Free trade and custom union is similar based on internal arrangements.
Explanation:
In case of free trade no tariff is required but each and every member state is free to set their own external tariff. On the other hand the custom union is not having any tariff but all members of custom union has a same external affair.
In case of free trade all the barriers regarding trade among the member countries are not there. On the other hand the custom union develops a common trade with respect to the non members.
One of the example of free trade is NAFTA and on the other hand the example of custom union is single market.
