| A | B |
|---|
| Benjamin Harrison | Republican President after Grover Cleveland; called "White House Ice Chest." |
| Thomas B. Reed | Republican Speaker of the House; Changed the HOuse rules against quorums; called "Czar" Reed. |
| James B. Weaver | First Poupulist nominee for president; Populists represented southern and western agricultural interests. |
| Jacob S. Coxey | Led a march to get government to relieve unemployment; Marched to Washington and was then arrested for walking on the grass. |
| Eugene V. Debs | Organized American Railway Union and Pullman strike; one of the more famous socialists of the Gilded Age. |
| William Jennings Bryan | Primiere orators of the time; known for his Cross of Gold speech; was nominated by Democratic and Populist party in 1896. |
| William McKinley | Member of the House of Representatives from Ohio; Wrote and proposed McKinley tariff; Tariff wasn't well liked in the west and they called McKinley, "Bill" McKinley. |
| Marcus A. Hanna | Friend of President McKinley; He led the supporters of hard money; McKinley won in 1896 but many accused Hanna of floating him in there. |
| Richard Olney | Corporate attorney who saw advantages in the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act, saying that it represented the "view" that government was regulating business when in fact it was not. |
| Injuction | "Government by injustion;" Government got involved in legal prosecution of strikers; signaled to companies they could do the same with Unions. |
| Free silver | One of the slogans promoting silver to be included as money; favored the unlimited coinage of silver. |
| Sixteen to one | Ration of silver to gold; also famous political slogan. |
| "Billion dollar" congress | First Congress to appropriate a billion dollars during peacetime. |
| Pension Act | Passed in 1890 and gave pensions to amputee's of the Civil War; Annuel bill for warfare pensions shot up 54 million dollars because of this Act. |
| Sherman Silver Purchase Act | Raised the amount of silver the government bought and put in the market each year; Government almost bought all of the silver mined in the Uited States. |
| McKinley Tariff | Boosted tariff rates to highest peacetime amount, 48.4% on dutiable goods; boosted farmers, sugar producers, and dispose of the troublesome surplus of money in Treasury. |
| Omaha Platform | A prolific reform of governmental injustice. |
| Homestead strike | One of the many strikes in 1892; This strike was at Carnegie's homestead steel plant near Pittsburgh; 300 Pinkerton detectives caled in, didn't help and troops had to be called in; 10 killed and 60 wounded; dispute over pay cuts. |
| Jay Crow Laws | Designed to enforce racial segregation in public places. |
| Depression of 1893 | Worst disaster that century in America; caused by over-speculation, overbuilding, labor disorders, and agricultural depression at the time; started after European banking houses started calling in loans from the United States. |
| Pullman Strike | Strike of railway workers after wages cut and rent, etc. stayed the same; workers overturned cars delayed all rail traffic from Chicago to west Coast; Government crushed strike and arrested key leaders. |
| Wilson-Gorman Tariff | Reduced tariffs from 48.4 percent to 41.3 percent; Failed because became a scandalous bill after big business had inserted little benefits for themselves. |
| "Cross of Gold" Speech | Free ssilver speech by Bran; Called for free coinage of silver and for the nation's labor to not be crucified by the "gold bug." |
| Dingley Tariff | Tariff Bill that raised the tariff to 46.5% |
| Gold Standard Act | Set gold as standard and paper money redeemable for gold. |
| Bimetallism | The term used to support American currency which use the usage of silver and gold. |
