| A | B |
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| Boxer Rebellion | 1899-1901 Chinese natives attempt to overthrow imperialist rule. |
| Credit-Mobilier Scandal | 1872 Union Pacific Railroad scandal involving gifts to congressional members |
| Cross of Gold Speech | 1896 William Jennings Bryan advocates for Free Silver |
| Filipino Insurrection | 1896 attempt by Emilio Aguinaldo to overthrow US occupation |
| Fisk-Gould Scandal | 1869 attempt to manipulate gold prices and crashed the market |
| Haymarket Riot | 1886 Labor protest resulting in violence and anti-labor backlash |
| Homestead Strike | 1892 Carnegie Steel Strike involving heavy use of Pinkerton's and ultimately ended by the state militia |
| Pullman Strike | 1894 Railroad worker strike ended by US army |
| Seward's Folly | 1867 Purchase of Alaska from Russia |
| Sioux Wars | 1890-91 Battles for Northern Plains resulting in Massacres at Wounded Knee and removal of Sioux |
| Spanish American War | 1898 War to "free" Cuba ended with US acquisition of lands in Caribbean and South Pacific |
| USS Maine | 1898 Explosion of US ship in Havana harbor triggers Spanish American war |
| Union Pacific and Central Pacific Joining | 1869 Trans-continental railroad completed |
| American Federation of Labor | 1886 founded by Samuel Gompers specializing in skilled workers |
| American Protective Association | 1887-99 Anti-Catholic, anti-immigration group |
| Chester A. Arthur | Republican, 21st President of US, becomes president after the assassination of Garfield in 1881 |
| William Jennings Bryan | Democrat, Populist, Orator, Democrat nominee for Pres 1896-1908, Cross of Gold speech |
| Cross of Gold Speech | 1896 Speech by W.J. Bryan arguing for relaxation of the Gold Standard / Free Silver |
| Chief Joseph, Nez Perce | 1877 Leader of the Nez Perce indians, forcibly removed from their homes in Idaho because prospectors wanted to mine for gold |
| Civil Service Commission | Created in 1883 as a result of Garfield's Assassination, effectively limited the spoils system, |
| Coxey's Army | 1894 march on Washington by unemployed workers lead by Jacob Coxey |
| Eugene V. Debs | Union Leader and many time Social Candidate for President. Jailed following the Pullman Strike and during WWI |
| Thomas A. Edison | Inventor, businessman, industrialist. Invented light bulb 1879, many others |
| James A. Garfield | Republican, 20th President, assassinated by disgruntled federal employee |
| Samuel Gompers | Union Leader. Founded AFL in 1886 and lead until 1924 |
| The Grange | Founded 1867, advocated farmers' interests, and in particular for public grain storage |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Victorious Union General of Civil War. Republican 18th President, scandal ridden. |
| Greenback Party | 1876-84 3rd Political Party, favored paper money and a pro-farmer inflationary monetary policy |
| Benjamin Harrison | Republican 23rd President. Defeated Cleveland in 1888, Running Bloody Shirt campaign. Lost to Cleveland in 1892. |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Winner of "stolen" election of 1876. Compromise to end reconstruction gives him election in House of Rep |
| William Randolph Hearst | Publisher, Yellow Journalist, Spanish American war Proponent |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th President, Lincoln's Vice President. Impeached after bitter fight with Congress |
| Knights of Labor | 1869 founding. Included all workers regardless of skills. Declined rapidly following Haymarket riot |
| Ku Klux Klan | Founded in 1866 by Confederate Veterans, advocating White Supremacy and oppression of African Americans. Flourished again in 1910s-20s |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | Naval Officer and Scholar advocated a strong Navy as a key to imperil power |
| William McKinley | Republican 25th President. Defeats Bryan in bitter contest over monetary policy, Spanish-American War, assassinated. |
| National Labor Union | Founded 1866, largely White Only and Male Only construction and skilled labor, paved way for Knights of Labor |
| Populists | 3rd Political party, grew out of Farmer's Alliance, favored Free Silver. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Editor, Publisher, Yellow Journalist, proponent of Spanish-American War. |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Last Sovereign Queen of Hawaii, deposed by American Sugar interests in 1893 |
| Rough Riders | Nickname for Volunteer Calvary in Spanish American War lead by TR |
| 7th Day Adventist Church | Protestant Sect founded in 1863, arising from earlier Adventist movements |
| Frederick Jackson Turner | Scholar, Author of "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" in 1893, arguing success tied to Westward expansion |
| Boss Tweed | Leader of New York's Tammany Hall. Prototypical Corrupt Political Boss. |
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union | 1873 founded by Francis Willard, led drive for Prohibition of Alcohol |
| Brooklyn Bridge | 1883 completed, major engineering achievement, suspension bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan |
| The Philippines | Pacific islands annexed from Spain after Spanish-American War |
| Puerto Rico, Samoa, Guam | Islands acquired by treaty following the Spanish American War |
| 13th Amendment | Ratified 1865, outlawed Slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Ratified 1868, extended due process and equal protection guarantees to the states. |
| 15th Amendment | Ratified 1870, guaranteed to Right to Vote to all Men, regardless of race |
| Amnesty Act | 1872 restored the right to vote and run for office for all Southerns, except 500 leaders |
| Black Codes | Laws established in the South in an attempt to undermine Emancipation |
| Bland-Allison Act | 1878 law requiring small amounts of silver to be purchased and used as currency |
| Bradwell v Illinois | 1872 Case denying the right of women to practice a profession of their choice |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law banning Chinese immigration |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Banned discrimination against African Americans, ruled unconstitutional in 1883 |
| Command of the Army Act, 1867 | Required Johnson to issue orders only through US Grant, not the military Governors of the South |
| Compromise of 1877 | Hayes gets the White House; Reconstruction Ends. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | 1865 Department created to assist freed slave and poor whites after the Civil war |
| Interstate Commerce Act | 1887 Law creating the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the railroads |
| Mckinley Tariff | 1890 Law increasing tariff rate to 48.4% on imported goods |
| Military Reconstruction Act | 1867 Law creating 5 military districts in the South, Congressional Approval for state constitution, voting rights to all men, and 14th Amendment ratification |
| Open Door Policy | Allowed for Free Trade by all nations in China |
| Pendleton Act | 1883 creates the Civil Service Commission in response to the assassination of Garfield |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 case establishing the precedent of "Separate but Equal" |
| Protective Tariff | A tax on imported goods intended to help a domestic industry |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | 1890 Law intended to limit US cartels and monopolies |
| Sherman Silver Purchase Act | 1890 Law dramatically increasing the amount of silver purchased, but far short of free silver |
| Teller Amendment | 1898 Law forbidding the annexation of Cuba |
| Tenure of Office Act | 1867 forbidding Johnson from Firing cabinet members without Senate Approval |
| United States v Knight Co | 1895 Sugar Trust Case, banning congress from regulating the sugar monopoly |
| Wabash Case | 1886 Case banning States from regulating railroads |
| Wilson-Gorman Tariff | 1894 slight reduction of McKinley tariff |
