Crisis 530-539 Flashcards
_____ controlled the Senate, ______ controlled the house.
Republicans controlled Senate.
Democrats controlled the House.
Factors that involved party loyalty:
-region
-religion
-ethnic differences
Civil War Pension System
System of pensions for veterans of the Civil War who had retired from work and also for their widows.
What groups competed for the Republican party and who were they?
Stalwarts- led by Roscoe Conkling (NY), favored professional machine politics
Half Breeds- led by James G. Blaine (Maine), favored reform
Sherman Antitrust Act
Prohibited monopolies and sustain competition
McKinley Tariff
raised the average duty on imports to almost fifty percent, an increase designed to protect domestic industries and workers from foreign competition, as promised in the Republican platform.
Interstate Commerce Act
Banned discrimination in rates between long and short hauls, required that railroads publish their rate schedules and file them with the goverment, and declared all interstate rails must be “reasonable and just”
Purpose of The Grangers
-Bring farmers together to learn new scientific agricultural techniques
-Create a feeling of community to relieve the lonliness in rural life
-Urged cooperative politial action to curb monopolistic practices by railroads and warehouses
The Farmers’ Alliances
-Like the Granges, the Allianes were principally concerned with local problems
-Formed cooperatives/marketing mechanisms
-Established stores, banks, processing plants, and other facilities for their members to keep them from being in debt from “furnishing merchants”
Populism
-Response to real and economic and political grievances
-An approach to politics which views “the people” as being opposed to “the elite” and is often used as a synonym of anti-establishment
Mary Lease
Famous for urging farmers to “raise less corn and more hell”
-Made 160 speeches in 1890 alone
What did Populist have in common?
They were engaged in a type of farming that was becomong less viable in the face of new, mechanized, diversified, and consolidated commercial agriculture.
“Free Silver”
The idea of permitting silver to become, along with gold, the basis of the currency so as to expand the money supply.
“Colored Alliances”
African Americans that were part of the Populist community. Their numbers and poverty made black farmers valuable allies.
What was Washington Government responsible for?
Delivering mail, maintaining a military, conduction foreign policy, and collecting tariffs & taxes
