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