A | B |
Dispensary | System that allowed only the state to sell alcoholic beverages |
Lynching | A mob killing |
Yellow Journalism | Writing outrageous headlines to sell newspapers |
Imperialists | People who wanted the US to expand its "empire" overseas |
Grange | The Patrons of Husbandry |
Platt Amendment | Stated that the US could enter into Cuba if necessary |
Plessy vs. Ferguson | Supreme Court decision to legalize segregation |
Stump Meeting | Outside public debates where speakers used cut down trees as pedestals |
"Remember the Maine" | Motivator during the Spanish-American War |
Segregation | The act of separating people by race |
Primary | A system for nominating candidates for office |
Jim Crow | Laws that uphold segregation |
Darlington Riot | Violent event prompted by the Dispensary laws |
People's Party (Populists) | Political party formed from an alliance of farmers |
Seventeenth Amendment | Provided for the direct election of U.S. Senators |