A | B |
Rhetorically favored traditional, professional machine politics | Stalwarts |
Rhetorically favored reform | Half-Breeds |
Required that some federal jobs be filled by competitive written examinations rather than by patronage | Pendleton Act |
A group of disgruntled liberal republicans | Mugwump |
Highest protective tariff ever proposed to Congress | McKinley Tariff |
Ruled Granger laws unconstitutional | Wabash v. Illinois |
First major organization (self-help) of 1860s, social and self-help association | Grange |
Farmers concerned with local problems that banded together | Farmer's Alliances |
Only southern congressman to only identify with the Alliances | Tom Watson |
Exultant delegates who proclaimed the creation of a new party, approved an official set of principles, and nominated candidates for presidency and vice presidency | Populist Party |
Former greenbacker who received nomination after death of Leonidas Polk, the early favorite | James B. Weaver |
Proposed a system of subtreasuries which would replace and strengthen the cooperatives with which both Grangers had been experimenting | Omaha Platform |
Began with Philly and Reading Railroad unable to meet payments on loans it had secured from British banks, declared bankruptcy, national Cordage company failed | Panic of 1893 |
March of the unemployed to the capital to present their demands to the government | Coxey's Army |
Recognition of two metals (silver and gold) as basis for dollar | Bimettalism |
Conclusion that a conspiracy of big bankers had been responsible for the "demonetization" of silver | Crime of '73 |
Required government to purchase (but not coin) silver, and pay for it in gold | Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
Confirmed the nations commitment to gold standard by assigning a specific gold value to the dollar and required a currency issued by the U.S. to hew the value | Currency Act of 1900 |
Most effective apostle of imperialism, captain (later admiral) of U.S. navy | Alfred Thayer Mahan |
Engaged in a circulation war, and both sent batteries of reporters and illustrators to Cuba | Pulitzer and Hearst |
Described McKinley as a weak man and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd | Delome Letter |
American battleship that blew up the Havana harbor with a loss of more than 200 people | U.S.S. Maine |
Center of fighting in the battles of El Caney and San Juan Hill | Rough Riders |
Ended military rule in Puerto Rico and established a former colonial government, an American governor, and a two chamber legislature | Foraker Act |
Declared Puerto Rico to U.S. territory and made all Puerto Ricans U.S. citizens | Jones Act |
Pressured Cuba in incorporating terms into its constitution, barred Cuba from making treaties with other nations, gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba | Platt Amendment |
A siege of the entire foreign diplomatic corps, which took refuge in the British embassy in Peking | Boxer Rebellion |
The sending of 16 navy ships around the world in order to have Japan recognize the power of the U.S. | Great White Fleet |
Intervened in domestic affairs of neighbors | Roosevelt Corollary |
Extended American investments into less developed regions | Dollar Diplomacy |
Was more direct in investments | Moral Diplomacy |
The prevailing philosophy of romantic transcendentalism in America | Pragmatism |
Organizing people in the most efficient manner | Scientific management |
Writers specializing in stories about underhanded schemes in politics | Muckrakers |
Author of muckraking articles in McClure's Magazine | Lincoln Steffens |
Wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company | Ida Tarbell |
One of the first photojournalists, published How the Other Half Lives | Jacob Riis |
Author of The Octopus and The Pit | Frank Norris |
Issuing ballots printed by the state and requiring voters to mark their choices secretly within the privacy of a curtained booth | Australian Secret Ballot |
Nominating party candidates by the majority vote | Direct Primary |
Required that all U.S. Senators be elected by the popular vote | 17th Amendment |
Allowed citizens to vote on proposed laws printed on their ballots | Referendum |
To remove a corrupt or unsatisfactory politician by majority vote | Recall |
Established a strong personal following as the governor who won passage of the "Wisconsin Idea" | Robert La Follette |
A series of Progressive measures that included a direct primary law, tax reform, and regulation of railroad rates | "Wisconsin Idea" |
Mediated the labor dispute by calling a Union leader and coal mine owners to the White House | Square Deal |
ICC had greater authority to stop railroads from granting rebates to favored customers | Elkins Act |
Commission could fix just reasonable rates for railroads | Hepburn Act |
Forbade the manufacturers, sale, and transportation of adulterated or mislabeled food and drugs | Pure Food and Drug Act |
Provided that federal inspectors visit meatpacking plants to ensure that they met minimum standards of sanitation | Meat Inspection Act |
Set aside 150 million acres of federal land as a national reserve that could not be sold to private interests | Forest Reserve Act |
Provided money from the sale of public land for irrigation projects in western states | Newland Reclamation Act |
Authorized the U.S. government to collect an income tax | 16th Amendment |
Raised the tariff on most imports | Trustbusting |
Attacked tariffs, bankings, and trusts, in order to bring back conditions of free and fair competition in the economy | Triple Wall of Privilege |
Lowered tariffs for the first time in over 50 years | Underwood Tariff |
A group of black intellectuals who met to discuss a program of protest and action aimed at securing equal rights for blacks | Niagara Movement |
Meant to abolish all forms of segregation and to increase educational opportunities for African American children | NAACP |
Meant to help those migrating for the South to Northern cities | National Urban League |