history exam Chapter 17-18

The segregated south:

How did the liberties of blacks after 1877 give away to legal segregation across the south Plessy vs. ferguson- "separate but equal" Jim crow acts- enforced blacks to be minority by a set of laws created by redeemers. civil rights act of 1875- prohibted discrimination in public affairs

Mark Hana

Mark Hanna was McKinley's campaign manager. He created a powerful national political machine that flooded the country with pamphlets, posters and campaign buttons.

muckrakers.

Newspaper and magazine writers, who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the progressive movement.

What was gain after the Spanish-American War to the USA?

brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under US control

Chapter 17: the populist platform

called for public ownership of railroads

The new immigrants

came from southern and eastern Europe

In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court

determined that Puerto Ricans and Filipinos were entitled to the same rights as US citizens

In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington

encouraged blacks to adjust to segragation

the teller amendment-

go after spain, but don't take cuba

chapter 18

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Cause of the Spanish-American War

1. USS Maine 2. Cuban revolt. 3. Yellow journalism ( News with the purpose of selling papers at all cost.)

-Treaty of Pairs 1898

1. cuba independent 2. US gets Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines 3. U.S paid 20 million to spain

difference between the old immigrants vs. the new immigrants

the old immigrants- moved permanently for religious freedom, jobs, the new immigrants- southern Europeans; who came only temporarily for jobs.

Platt Amendment

Cuban constitution US can intervene in Cuba Cuba can't make treaties without US approval.

Imperialism

Definition- one country exercises power over another one The us emerge as an imperial power during the 1890's because they started to conquer land in different places. they began to create navy bases throughout the island they had, so that their route could be easier. Americans started to become a spread nation. America had the control of Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam, and helped Cuba.

Insular cases:

Insular cases:relating to or referring to an island that the US owns. Should

Why were republicans against free silver

Republicans thought that by abandoning the gold standard it might destroy business confidence and prevent recovery from the depression by making creditors unwilling to extend loans.

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

The Supreme Court made a ruled that was called "separate but equal" because Plessy bought a first class ticket, when he interracial, and only pure whites were allow to first class, the case was took to the court,.

the old Immigrants vs. the new immigrants

The old immigrants came from Northern-west of Europe. The new immigrants started to come from Southern-eastern Europe.

African Americans in government:

many lost rights to vote due to Father clause, literacy test, taxes results- less African American politicians.

Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor restricted their membership to.....

only skilled workers

The Chinese Expedition Act of 1882

prohibited any Chinese from entering the US

what institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South

public schools, because they lowered taxes so public schools couldn't be financed so African Americans children didn't go to school.

the populist challenge:

what were the orgins and the sign. of populism Millions of farmers joined the Populist movement in an attempt to reverse their declining economic prospects and to rescue the government from what they saw as control by powerful corporate interests. They embraced the modern technologies that made large-scale cooperative enterprise possible—the railroad, the telegraph, and the national market— while looking to the federal government to regulate those technologies in the public interest. They promoted agricultural education and believed farmers should adopt modern scientific methods of cultivation.

Yellow Journalism

worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, "Remember the main, to hell with Spain"