Unit 6 2 Flashcards
The 1887 law that expanded federal power over business by prohibiting pooling and discriminatory rates by railroads and establishing the first federal regulatory Agency
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
Boston organization offering classes to wage earning women
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
A law of 1883 that reformed the spoils system by prohibiting government workers from making political contributions and creating the civil service commission to oversee their appointment on the basis of merit rather than politics.
Pendleton civil service reform act
A major third party of the 1890s formed on the basis of the southern farmers alliance and other reform organizations
Populist movement
a national organization of farm owners formed after the Civil War
Grange
A broad mass movement in the Rural south and west during the late 19th century, encompassing several organizations and demanding economic and political reforms.
Farmers alliance
Unsuccessful railroad strike of 1877 to protest wage cuts and the use of federal troops again strikers; the First Nationwide work stoppage in American history.
Great uprising
Women’s organization whose members visited schools to educate children about the evils of alcohol, addressed pioneers, and blanketed men’s meetings with literature
Where did this Christian temperance union (WCTU)
The organization formed in 1890, that coordinated the ultimately successful campaign to achieve women’s right to vote.
National American woman suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Philosophy that the government should expand the money supply by purchasing and coining all the silver offered to it
Free silver
1890 act which directed the treasury to increase the amount of currency coin from silver mind in the west and also permitted the US government to print paper currency backed by the silver
Sherman Silver purchase act
Favoring the interests and culture of native born inhabitants over those of immigrants
Nativism
Segregation laws that became widespread in the south during the 1890s
Jim Crowe laws
A system of racial control that separated the races, initially by custom but increasingly but wall during and after reconstruction.
Segregation
Rules that required potential voters to demonstrate that their grandfathers had been eligible to vote; used in some southern states after 1890 to limit the black electorate.
Grandfather clauses
