Freedom's Boundaries

Question 1

People’s Party (Populists)

Answer 1

• created in response to the growth in corporate power
• called for political reform (election of senators, secret ballot)
• increased government involvement in economy

Question 2

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 2

• US lawyer and politician
• advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a TN high school

Question 3

New South

Answer 3

idea that the South should industrialize after the Civil War
- calls for industrialization, sharecropping, and tenant farming

Question 4

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 4

• 1896 SCOTUS decision
• legalized state ordered segregation
• “separate but equal”

Question 5

Lynching

Answer 5

putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

Question 6

Booker T. Washington

Answer 6

• prominent black American
• born into slavery
• believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and provided economic value to society
• head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881
• “Up from Slavery” book

Question 7

W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 7

• opposed Booker T. Washington
• wanted social and political integration and higher education for 10% of AA (“Talented Tenth”)
• founder of the Niagara Movement which led to the creation of the NAACP

Question 8

American Federation of Labor

Answer 8

• 1886
• founded by Samuel Gompers
• sought better working wages, hours, conditions
• skilled laborer’s arose out of dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor
• rejected socialist, communist ideas
• non-violent

Question 9

Homestead Strike

Answer 9

• violent 1894 railway workers’ strike
• began outside of Chicago and spread nationwide

Question 10

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 10

• leader of the American Railway Union
• voted to aid workers in the Pullman strike
• jailed for 6 months for disobeying a court order after the strike was over

Question 11

Social Darwinism

Answer 11

application of ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies, particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion

Question 12

Spanish-American War

Answer 12

• 1898, a conflict between the US and Spain
• US supported the Cubans’ fight for independence

Question 13

Philippine War

Answer 13

(1898-1902)
- war in which US used brutal tactics to crush rebellion
- involved executions, concentration camps, destruction, savagery
- Jones Act allowed for independence of this nation when ready, but did not specify a specific date
- eventually, citizens would gain independence in 1946

Question 14

Anti-Imperialist League

Answer 14

organization formed during the Philippine War to oppose the establishment of US colonies
- opposed US annexation of the Philippines following the Spanish-American War
- saw that the colonies violated the principles of self-governance and democracy that the US stood for

Question 15

Panama Canal

Answer 15

ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama
- built by the US
- 1904-1914