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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| watering stock (finance) | means shares of a company are issued for a value higher than the actual worth of the assets or cash received in return. |
| Wheeler Compromise | Returned to Congress in 1875, he was appointed to a committee investigating a disputed election in Louisiana and devised the “Wheeler compromise,” by which governmental control of the state was shared between the Democratic and Republican parties.the 19th |
| Whiskey Ring | group of whiskey distillers (dissolved in 1875) who conspired to defraud the federal government of taxes. the Whiskey Ring bribed Internal Revenue officials and accomplices in Washington in order to keep liquor taxes for themselves.Allegations that the il |
| Wilmington Coup | political coup and massacre in which the multiracial Fusionist (Republican and Populist) city government of Wilmington, North Carolina, was violently overthrown on November 10, 1898, and as many as 60 Black Americans were killed in a premeditated murder s |
| Women & Economics by Charlotte Perkins | American feminist, lecturer, writer, and publisher who was a leading theorist of the women’s movement in the United States. she proposed that only economic independence could bring true freedom. |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | American temperance organization, founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, in response to the “Woman’s Crusade,” a series of temperance demonstrations that swept through New York and much of the Midwest in 1873–74. |
| "Your Money or Your Line" by Henry J. Raymond | was a U.S. journalist and politician who, as the first editor and chief proprietor of The New York Times (from 1851), did much to elevate the style and tone of contemporary newspapers and who was prominent in forming the Republican Party.The piece was a s |