Chapter 17 Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890-1900
Republican 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 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 Farmers' Alliance
Which was NOT part of the Populist platform?
Higher tariffs
The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU):
Moved for 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:
Outlawing the use of black females 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 McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT:
The United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy
The Teller Amendment was an amendment to a joint resolution 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:
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
_____ American territorial expansionism:
Was a feature of American life since well before independence
At the end of the nineteenth century, lynching:
Was an act of violence directed mostly at black men
The Philippine War:
Was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War
After the 1890's, 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 from entering the United States
Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE?
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