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| American industrialists that created the Pullman Sleeping Car for trains. |
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| Leader of American Railway Union (ARU), and founder of International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
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| Presidential cantidate for People's Party in 1896 election |
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| American Newspaper publisher and important influence whom participated in journalism that uses less facts and more eye catching pieces |
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| Hungarian-American newspaper published that created yellow journalism and was against big business and corruption |
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| type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers |
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| War hero in Spanish-American war that led American troops to victory in Cuba |
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| People’s (Populist) Party |
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| Political party based on Populists views that participated in critical 1896 election |
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| agricultural economic movement amongst U.S. farmers |
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| Populists plan that would allow farmers to store nonperishable crops in governmental storehouses until market prices rise. |
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| Frick turned Carnegie's Homestead steel mill into a Fort and locked out union laborers forcing them to go on a violent strike |
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| private, professional security/ police force for hire. |
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| panic that was marked by the collapse of railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing which set off a series of bank failures |
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| Labor union founded June 20, 1893, by railway workers gathered in Chicago, Illinois, and under the leadership of Eugene V. Debs. Coalition of ALL railway workers |
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| laborers of the ARU went on strike against Pullman railrays which got violent and required help from federal troops to control chaos |
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| protest march by unemployed workers to Washington D.C to try and force federal relief legislation |
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| the doctrine of a nation's expanding its territorial base or economic influence within other countries around the world |
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| America fought with Great Britain and France for which country should annex Hawaii, and America's business triumphed |
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| pro nationalist movement in China between 1898 and 1901, opposing Western imperialism and Christianity |
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| concept in foreign affairs allowing multiple Imperial powers access to economic markets and religious influence in China, with none of them in control of that country |
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| War between America and Spanish troops over power of Spanish controlled Cuba. America was victorious in releasing Cuba from Spain's unmoral treatment |
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| Military ship sent to Cuba that was mysteriously destroyed killing 267 crew members and prompting cries for war back home |
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| name given to 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry for Spanish-American War |
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| decisive battle of the Spanish-American War that pulled victory towards America |
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| the creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship |
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| stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba after the Spanish-American War |
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| Treaty that ended Spanish-American war and ceded the Philippines along with Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S |
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