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Chapter 20&21 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An early leader of the women's suffrage movement, co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1869 | Susan B. Anthony |
| Organized the first convention on women's rights held in Seneca Falls. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| A group of women who advocated total abstinence from alcohol adn who worked to get laws passed again alcohol | Women's Christian Temperance Union |
| An educator who urged blacks to better themselves through education and economic advancement; he founded the first formal school for blacks, the Tuskegee Institute | Booker T. Washington |
| A black orator and essayist who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | W.E.B. DuBois |
| Said that segregated facilities for whites and blacks were legal as long as they were of equal quality | Jim Crow Laws |
| Said that a citizen could only vote if his grandfather had been able to vote | Grandfather Clause |
| A group of black and white reformers who organized the NAACP | Niagra Movement |
| Founded in 1909 by a group of black and white intellectuals | NAACP |
| Directed the Treasury to buy even larger amounts of silver that the Bland-Allison Act and at inflated prices | Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
| Movement for using silver in al aspects of currency | Free Silver |
| Profits dwindled, businesses went bankrupt and slid into debt | Depression of 1893 |
| Act repealed by President Cleveland to protect gold reserves | Repeal of Sherman's Silver Purchase Act |
| Movement which focused on cooperation between farmers | Farmer's Alliance |
| Officially named the People's Party, wrote a platform for the 1892 election in which they called for free coinage of silver and paper money, national income tax, direct election of senators, regulaton of railroads, and other government reforms | Populist Party platform |
| Three time candidate for president by the Democratic Party, nominated because of supports from the Populist Party. He never won. | Williams Jenning Bryan |
| Given by Bryan on June 18, 1896. He said that people must not be "crucified on a cross of gold." | "Cross of Gold" Speech |
| William McKinley Republican, North, industry, and high tariffs. Williams Bryan Democrat, West and South, farmers and low tariffs | Election of 1896 |
| This was signed by McKinley. It stated that all paper money would be backed only by gold | Gold Standard Act |
| Term used to describe the sensationalist newspaper writings of the time. They were written on cheap yellow paper. William Randolf Hearst. | Yellow Journalism |
| An explosion from a mine in the Bay of Havanna crippled the warship ________. | Maine |
| In July 1898, Congress made Hawaii a U.S. territory, for the use of the islands as naval ports | Annexation of Hawaii |
| The U.S. acquired these territories from Spain through the Treaty of Paris | Phillipines, Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba |
| U.S. declared Cuba free from Spain | Teller Amendment |
| Specified the conditions under which the United States could intervene in Cuba's internal affairs, and provided that Cuba could not make a treaty with another nation that might impair it's independence | Platt Amendment |
| Aguinaldo led a Fillipino insurrection against the Spanish in 1896 and assisted the U.S. invasion | Aguinaldo |
| Journalists who searched for and publicized real or alleged acts of corruption of public officials, businessmen, etc. | Muckrakers |
| This book exposed the monopolistic practices of the Standard Oil Company | Ida Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company |
| American philosopher and educator, he led the philosophical movement called Pragmatism; influenced by evolution | John Dewey |
| American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's | Margaret Sanger |
| 1) The people have the right to propose a new law2) A law passed by the legislature can be reference to the people for approval/veto3) The people can petition and vote to have an elected official removed from office | Initiative, Referendum, and Recall |
| 1) Authorized Congress to levy and income tax2) Gave the people to elect senators to the people3) Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol4) Gave women the right to vote | 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments |
| A fire in the New York Triangle Shirtwaist Company killed 146 people | Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire |
| Nicknamed for Teddy Roosevelt, this is a federal official who seeks to dissolve monopolistic trusts through vigorous enforcement of antitrust laws | Trustbuster |
| Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| The Progressive Party | Bull Moose Party |
| He believed that monopolies had to be broken up and that the government must regulate business | Woodrow Wilson, New Freedom |
| A system in which government authority would be balanced and coordinate economic activity; government would regulate business | Theodore Roosevelt, New Nationalism |
| Wilson, Democrate beat Roosevelt, Progressive | Election of 1912 |
| Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class; in 1889 she founded Hull House in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency in the U.S. | Jane Adams |
| Immigrants were required to pass a literacy test in order to gain citizenship | Literacy Tests |
| A movement in the later 1800s/early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation | Social gospel |
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