Chapter 17

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 appropriations bill that

authorized the united states to intervene militarly 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

tha spanish american war

brought the philippines, guam, and puerto rico and 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

encourages 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 from 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 bkack except

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 condition through cooperatives

farmers believed that their ploght derived from all of the following except

the free and unlimited coinage of silver

president william mckinley justified us annexation of the philippines on all of the following grounds

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

how were federal troops used in the pullman strike of 1894

to help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners

republican presiential candidate william mckinley

ued in favor if the gold standard

in his atlanta speech of 1895, booker t. washington

urged blacks to accept segregation

amerucan 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

chinese exclusion act of 1882

was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the united states

journalists who worked for newspapers like william randolph hearts new york journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called

yellow journalist