Question | Answer |
Year: Wabash v. Illinois | 1886 |
Year: Sherman Anti-Trust Act is signed | 1890 |
Year: Populist National Convention in Omaha, NE | 1892 |
Year: Plessy v. Ferguson | 1892 |
Year: Pendleton Act is passed | 1883 |
Year: Grange is founded | 1866 |
Year: Farmers Alliance is founded | 1877 |
Year: Colored Farmers’ National Convention is founded | 1886 |
Who were the stalwarts, half breeds, and mugwumps? | Mugwumps: Republican à Democrats, Halfbreeds: Republican reformers, Stalwarts: Republican political machines |
Type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers | Yellow journalism |
The separation or isolation of a race, class, or group | Segregation |
The actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over a smaller or weaker nation | Imperialism |
T/F The three causes of the Spanish-American war were imperialist attitudes, yellow journalism, and the sinking of the Maine. | T |
T/F Teddy Roosevelt became the president after McKinley died. The Republican party was very excited that he was their new president. | F not excited |
T/F President Roosevelt won a Noble Peace Prize for his excellent negotiation work between the Chinese and Koreans | F Japan/Russia |
T/F Prez Roosevelt helps Panama win freedom from Colombia. After independence, U.S. buys rights to build canal. | T |
T/F President McKinley was elected president in 1896 and 1900. | T |
T/F Officials were absolutely sure that the Maine sunk because of the Spanish. | F. Not sure |
T/F Most of the workers on the Panama Canal died from malaria or tuberculosis. | T |
T/F Before Roosevelt became president he was the leader of the group known as the Terrible Dozen, who took the battle at San Juan Hill. | F. Rough Riders |
T/F After the Spanish-American War the United States found themselves with an empire consisting of Guam, the Philippines, and Jamaica. | F. Not Jamaica |
Statues or laws created to enforce segregation | Jim Crow laws |
Owner of the New York Journal | William Randolph Hearst |
Led 4 warships into Tokyo Bay | Matthew Perry |
How does the U.S. acquire Hawaii? | Us fruit planters want cheaper taxes. Overthrow HI gov’t. Put Queen Liliuokalani in prison. Dole in charge. 1899: US annexed HI |
How did the sinking of the USS Maine cause the Spanish-American War? | 1898 Maine sinks and American die. Caused by Spanish, sabotage, or explosion? US blames Spain. WAR!!! |
Farmer who works land for an owner who provides equipment and seed and receives a share of the crop | Sharecropper |
Explain the concept: “white man’s burden.” How was this concept expressed in American imperialist attitudes toward Hawaii, the Philippines, and Cuba? | WMB: burden of civilizing/Christianizing non-white nations. HI: non-white population. Us needs sugar. Takes over. Philippines: US takes it from Spain. Can’t govern themselves. US wants naval base. Cuba: US takes it from Spain. Has right to intervene |
Describe how African Americans were disenfranchised in the 1880s. | Poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause |
Cuban revolutionary leader | Jose Marti |
A policy that allowed each foreign nation in China to freely trade in the other nation’s spheres of influence | Open Door policy |
A policy of joining the business interests of a country with its diplomatic interests abroad | Dollar diplomacy |
A piece of U.S. paper money first issued by the North during the Civil War | Greenback |
A country that is technically independent but is actually under the control of another country | Protectorate |
A clause that allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction had began | Grandfather clause |
Rough Rider who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto | Theodore Roosevelt |
Ran for president 3 times. Never elected | William Jennings Bryan |
Owner of the New York World | Joseph Pulitzer |
Last queen of Hawai’i | Liliuokalani |
Filipino revolutionary leader | Emilio Aguinaldo |
Assassinated while in office | William McKinley |