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History Ch 20 Flashcards

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1890s depression

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time of increased rural hostility toward cities, bitter fighting over currency, new thoughts about govt, unemployment, and reform

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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won election of 1876, worked for reform in civil service, placed reformers in high offices, ended military reconstruction

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Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act

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compromise between groups favoring the coinage of silver and those opposed to it, calling for the partial coinage of silver

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James A. Garfield

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became president in 1880, determined to unite Rep party, anguished by hoards of office seekers, shot by one

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Charles J. Guiteau

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disappointed office seeker who shot Garfield in 1881

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Chester A. Arthur

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Garfield’s VP who became president when he died, worked to lower tariff, passed Pendleton Act to appoint qualified officeholders

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Pendleton Act

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passed in 1883, act to lessen the involvement of politicians in running of the govt; officeholders appointed based on merit, created bipartisan Civil Service Commission

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Civil Service Commission

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bipartisan group created under the Pendleton Act, examined and appointed qualified officeholders

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Grover Cleveland

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became pres in 1884, Dem, vetoed over 2/3 of bills presented, committed to lowering tariff

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Benjamin Harrison

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Rep pres in 1888, narrowly won

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Sherman Silver Purchase Act

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bill authorizing the Treasury to buy great quantities of silver each month

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McKinley Tariff

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raised tariff duties higher than ever before

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Dependent Pensions Act

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granted pensions to Union army veterans and their wives and children

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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bill outlawing “every contract or combination in the form of a trust”

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“billion-dollar congress”

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name for Rep congress of 1890 b/c it spent a lot in appropriations and grants

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National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union

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large reform movement, sought to organize farmers in the South and West to fight for reforms of agricultural problems

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Southern Alliance

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AKA Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union, welcomed farmers’ “natural friends”, massive organization

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Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union

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affiliated w/ Southern Alliance, enlisted black farmers in the South, led a strike for higher wages

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Northwestern Alliance

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small alliance organization on the Plains, liked openness/ decentralized control/desegregation

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Ocala Demands

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adopted in 1890 by Farmers’ Alliance, became main platform (sub-treasury system to store crops, free coinage of silver, end to tariffs and national banks, fed income tax, election of senators by voters, tighter regulation of railroads)

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“sub-treasury system”

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system to allow farmers to store crops in govt warehouses in return for Treasury notes for up to 80% of local market value of crops (to be repaid when crops were sold)

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People’s (Populist) Party

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political party organized in 1892, mainly from Farmers’ Alliance, reflected Ocala Demands

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James B. Weaver

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former congressman, Populist candidate for president in 1880

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1892 election

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election in which many voters switched parties (most to Democrat), Farmers’ Alliance ended

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Panic of 1893

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depression due to rapid expansion of the economy in the 1870s-80s, investment dropped sharply, people sold stocks and depleted gold in US Treasury

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Pullman Strike

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May 1894, employees at Pullman Palace Car Company struck to protest wage cuts, high rents for company housing, and layoffs

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Eugene V. Debs

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leader of American Railway Union

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American Railway Union

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union that joined the Pullman Strike by refusing to handle trains with Pullman sleeping cars

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Grover Cleveland

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president in 1892, broke Pullman strike b/c it obstructed mail delivery

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Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act

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act passed in 1894, modestly reduced duties and imposed a small income tax

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1894 elections

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elections that ended the party deadlock w/ Republicans winning

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Mark Twain

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changed American prose style by replacing literary language with common speech and dialect

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Louisa May Alcott

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described the daily life of four New England girls in Little Women

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Stephen Crane

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depicted the impact of poverty in “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets”

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Joel Chandler Harris

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regional writer who depicted the South

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Theodore Dreiser

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portrayed a grim world of the exhausted factory worker in “Sister Carrie”

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Mothers Congress of 1896

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group of women who called for education to get children out of factories and into classrooms

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Horatio Alger

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author who provided lessons to succeed in business and life

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Anna Sewell

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author of Black Beauty

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pragmatism

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new philosophy which stressed the relativity of values

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Hamlin Garland

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author who described the grimness of life on the Great Plains

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Bret Harte

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regionalist author who portrayed local color of CA mining camps

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naturalists

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writers who wrote of a cruel environment that determined human fate

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Jack London

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naturalist author who traced the power of nature over civilized society in The Call of the Wild”

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William McKinley

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Republican nomination for president in 1896, winner

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gold standard

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financial policy common in other nations- coining only gold-no silver

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William Jennings Bryan

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leader of the anti-Cleveland Democrats in 1896, lost election, pro-silver coinage

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“Cross of Gold Speech”

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Bryan’s speech at the Dem convention which won him the nomnation

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Dingley Tariff

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1897 law that raised average tariff duties to a record level

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Gold Standard Act

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passed in 1900, declared gold the nation’s standard of currency (all currency redeemable in gold)

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1900 election

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McKinley won election, with Roosevelt, stressed his record at home and abroad

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1901 Pan-American Exposition

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display of new discoveries

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Leon Czolgosz

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unemployed laborer and anarchist who shot McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition

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