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The Platt Amendment

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

The Populist platform

called for public ownership of railroads

The severe depression of 1893

d to increased conflict between capitol and labor.

The People's Party

evolved out of the Farmers' Alliance

In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court

held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War.

The Teller Amendment stated 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.

The Immigration Restriction League

wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate

Which statement about the People's Party is FALSE

It emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform

Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true

The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties.

ll of the following were used by southern whites to maintain domination over blacks EXCEPT

outlawing the use of black female domestic workers in white homes

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

prohibited any Chinese from entering the United States.

n Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court:

ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional

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

yellow journalists