Populism, Progressivism, and Imperialism Key Individuals- needs oxford notes Flashcards
In 1986, who believed that the confidence of the business community had been lost because of the use of silver in the coinage?
Grover Cleveland
Who did the Populist Party choose to stand for president in 1892
James B Weaver
For the 1896 election, who did the Populist/ Democratic party choose as their candidate
William Jennings Bryan
Who spent $3 mn supporting William McKinley and smearing the reputation of Jennings Bryan
Mark Hanna
Name the three progressive presidents
Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
Who was one of the first historians of Progressivism who wrote a book on it in 1913 saying the movement was focused on the regulation of big business, political reform and social reform
De Witt
Who are seen as the main three robber barons, who seemed to put their own profits before the interests of the masses
Rockefeller, Morgan and Carnegie
Name three journalists and writers who wroted muckraking articles, which greatly influenced public opinion and accelerated reform
Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens and Upton Sinclair
Who was the governor of Wisconsin between 1901 and 1906 that fought corruption and broight in a whole series of progressive reforms like railroad rate reform and minimum wage and progressive taxation
Robert La Follette
Who was president 1901-08
Theodore Roosevelt
Who did Roosevelt’s Anti trust measures mainly affect (2)
Rockefeller and JP Morgan
Who was president 1909-12
William Taft
What was the name of the person Taft sacked which made progressives oppose taft as he was a great conservationist and had originally been appointd by roosevelt in his term
Gifford Pinchot
Who ran the American Railway Union
Eugene Debs
Name the two men involved in the seperate but equal faculities case of 1896
Homer Plessy and Ferguson
