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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