Chapter 17 Freedom's Boundaries, Home and Abroad

Republicans presidential candidate William McKinley

Argued in favor of the gold standard

The New South as promoted by Henry Grady

Attempted to appeal to northern business interests but failed to bring prosperity to the region

The Platt Amendment was passed as part of a 1901 Army Appropriations Bill that

Authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba

Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League

Believed that American energies should be directed at home not abroad

Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus

Blacks

The Spanish-American War

Brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under the U.S. control

The new immigrants

Came from southern and eastern Europe

The 1894 Pullman Strike

Collapsed when union leaders were jailed

The "White Man's burden"

Comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling

Booker T. Washington

Encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation and abandon the push for civil rights

The People's Party

Evolved out of the Farmer's Alliance

Which was NOT part of the Populist Platform: -A graduated income tax -Direct election of U.S. Senators -Government ownership of railroads -Higher tariffs -Workers' right to form unions

Higher tariffs

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Moved form demanding prohibition of alcohol to pushing for women's right to vote

All of the following were used by southern whites to maintain domination over blacks EXCEPT -Racial segregation -Disenfranchisement -Limiting economic opportunities -Inferior education -Outlawing the use of black female domestic workers in white homes

Outlawing the use of black female domestic workers in white homes

William Jennings Bryan

Ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform

The silver issue

Refers to the fight to increase the money supply by minting silver money

Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor

Restricted membership to only skilled workers

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court

Ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional

The Farmers' Alliance

Sought to improve conditions through cooperatives

President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT -The United States needed to civilize Filipinos -The United States needed the islands for business and trade -The United Sates believed the Filipinos were not ready for self-government -The United Sates needed to christianize the Filipinos -The United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy

The United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy

The Teller Amendment was an amendment to a joint revolution of Congress that authorized the President to use military force to end hostilities in Cuba with the understanding that

The United States would not annex Cuba

Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT: -High freight rates charged by railroads -Excessive interest rates for loans from bankers -The High tariff policies of the Federal Government -The fiscal policy that reduced the supply of money in the economy -The free and unlimited coinage of silver

The free and unlimited coinage of silver

How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894

To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners

In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington

Urged blacks to accept segregation

At the end of the 19th century, lynching

WAs an act of violence directed mostly at black men

American territorial expansionism

Was a feature of American life since well before independence

The Philippine War

Was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War

After the 1890s, American expansionism

Was fueled in part by the need to stimulate American exports

The severe depression of 1893

Was marked by high and long-term unemployment, exemplified by Coxey's Army

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people fro entering the United States

Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE -William McKinley's victory ended the political stalemate that had persisted since 1876 -The Populist party declined after the election -The election is considered the first modern presidential campaign -William McKinley's campaign raised millions of dollars compared to William Jennings Bryan's coffer, which was less than 500,000 dollars -William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard

William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard

Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called

Yellow journalists