Chapter 7 Eugene Debs and Socialism history

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

"Canton Speech."

Debs reviewed many of the issues that he had spoken about earlier in his career. He talked about capitalism as one of the causes of the war and complained about the burden of the war on workers. He also spoke in praise of socialism:,the speech was considered treason

Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party

Eugene V. Debs was an American Socialist leader and five time presidential candidate. In 1897 he created the Social Democratic Party of America. He received nearly one million votes for president while he was imprisoned in jail.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Founded in 1920. The ACLU seeks to protect the civil liberties of individuals, a group that aimed (and still aims) to defend the constitutional rights of American citizens.

Espionage Act of 1917

forbidding people to speak out against the war.

Pullman Strike

in Chicago, Pullman cut wages but refused to lower rents in the "company town", Eugene Debs had American Railway Union refuse to use Pullman cars, Debs thrown in jail after being sued, strike achieved nothing

Jim Crow/Jim Crow Laws

set of laws in the South that promoted segregation, discriminated against black people

Jane Addams worked with Du Bois and others in forming

the NAACP.

Socialism

was an economic system in which the government controlled or regulated major, or important, industries.

Samuel Gompers

worked to organize workers of different trade unions into one large labor organization called the American Federation of Labor (AFL)