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
Who set up the Tuskegee Instute in Alabama in 1881 but was an accomodationist
Booker T washington
Who was the VP that had the deciding vote to annex the Philippines according to historian Harold Evans
Garrett Augustus Hobart
Who was the historian that suggested US imperialism was motivated by a desire to imrpove the lives of non americans
Walter McDougall
Whose thesis had a big imoact on the american frontier
Frederick Jack Turner in 1983
Who offered the USA the naval base of Pago Pago on the eastern island of Tutuila in 1872
The King of Samoa
In 1891, what was the name of the new Hawaiian queen that led a rebellion and american residents called for help from the us
Liliuokalani
What was the name of the British prime minister who first rejected sending the dispute with Venezuala to arbitartion
Salisbury
Who was the navy one fleet under, whilst playing an important role in cuba
Rear Admiral Sampson
Who was the navy under in a second fleet
Commodore Winfield Schley
17,000 US troops under which general landed near santiago
General William Shafter
As early as the 60s did which US secretary of state begin to negotiate with the govt of colombia
William Seward
Who’s French company had built the Suez Canal in 1881
French engineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps
Who was the Nicaraguan anti- American president during 1909
Jose Sntos Zelaya
Who was the pro american president that taft sent to nicaragua
Adolfo Diaz
Who was Taft’s secetary of state who extended us influence in nicaragua by providing huge loans and in return the US controlled the Nicaraguan National Bank?
Philander C Knox
Who was the US secretary of state during 1899 who introduced the open door policy with the first open door note asking states to respect each others trading rughts in china even in each others spheres of interest
John Hay
