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Give Me Liberty: An American History Volume 2 seagull 3rd edition by Eric Foner
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Farmer's Alliance
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The largest citizen's movement of the 19th century; farmers fought to lower freight rates, make interest rates for loans fairer, and to change the fiscal policy of reduced money supply. Proposed federal warehouses for storage of crops (subtreasury plan). Founded in texas in 1870s.
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Populists/People's Party
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evolved from the Farmer's alliance;

wanted: direct election of senators, government control of currency, graduated income tax, low cost public financing for marketing crops, right to form labor unions, & public ownership of railroads

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Colored Farmer's Alliance
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started because of populists; created to unite white and black farmers with unfair conditions
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Eugene Debs
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lead socialist party of 1901; Strike union leader, jailed for violating judicial order.

wanted: free college education, economic freedom and equal opportunity, public ownership of railroads

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Free coinage
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the demand for "free silver";called for by William Jennings Bryan; would increase money supply and help farmers
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William Jennings Bryan
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supported by democrats and populists for presidency; for gold coinage
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Jane Addams
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founded Hull house- designed to help women get back on their feet
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Emma Goldman
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early centry radicalists; anarchist; arrested 40 times for obscene statements
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Progressivism
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Modern society: structural organization

social control: lower class movement to slow down revolution

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Upton Sinclair
Definition
muckracker who wrote "the jungle"
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muckrakers
Definition
writers who exposed corruptness in world
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Lincoln Steffens
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wrote "the shame of the cities" to expose urban corruption
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Ida Tarbell
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wrote "the history of the standard oil company"
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Progressive Movement: expansion of power
Definition

women's right to vote (19th amendment)

senators became popularly elected

 

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Progressive Movement: contraction of power
Definition

Racially divided

narrowing of poor people's voting rights

desire for beurocracy

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Teddy Roosevelt
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progressivism president- "the square deal" domestic policy for equal opportunities for success; wanted to limit power of businesses
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Good trusts
Definition
provided necessities; were fair and should be left alone
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bad trusts
Definition
took advantage of workers and cheated public, should be broken by government
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19th amendment
Definition
women's right to vote
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Theodore Dreiser
Definition

 “Sister Carrie” about how women were prevented from education and jobs forcing them into prostitution

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Frederick taylor
Definition
pioneered the scientific management program
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scientific management
Definition
sought to streamline production and boost products by controlling costs and work practices
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Square deal
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Roosevelt's domestic policy for equal opportunity for success
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plessy vs. ferguson
Definition
made state laws for seperate facilities
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alfred t. mahan
Definition
argued for international trade
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election of 1896
Definition

the first modern presidential election (with mckinnley and bryan)

beginning of increased government size

marked period of republican domination

decline of populists

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ignatius donnelly
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wrote Omaha Platform which led to progressive movement
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Omaha Platform
Definition
direct election of senators, public financing for farmers, legalize labor unions, public ownership of railroads       consumer desire to control prices, and graduated income tax
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Tom watson
Definition
huge ga populists leader who wanted interracial farmer's alliance
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convict-lease system
Definition
to prevent overcrowding of jails, government would lease out inmates to work for certain periods of time
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Ida B Wells
Definition
most vocal opponent of lynching
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lynching
Definition
hanging
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nativism
Definition
restricting immigrants in the U.S
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riff-raff imigrants
Definition
south eastern jews and europeans
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
Black activist who wrote  "up from slavery"
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Accommodationism
Definition
1895 cotton exposition
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1895 atl cotton expo
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lobbied against jim crow

urged blacks to gain economic independence

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nationalism
Definition
pride in one's country
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josiah strong
Definition

wrote "our country"

       about extending manifest destiny internationally in order to “civilize and Christianize the inferior races of the world”

 

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U.S.S Maine
Definition
battleship that exploded in the Havana Harbor; thought to have been bombed, the Spanish American war began a couple months later
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Platt Amendment
Definition
change to cuban constitution declaring ability to intervene in cuban affairs (foced cuba to host american naval bases)
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Angel & ellis Island
Definition
reception center where immigrants arrived and were processed
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Fordism
Definition
economic system of high wages and mass consumption
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Roosevelt Corollary
Definition
addition to Monroe Doctrine that stated that the U.S could police the western hemisphere
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Moral imperialism
Definition
Wilson's idea that americans were meant to carry liberty and justice throughout the world
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Zimmerman Telegraph
Definition
instructions to offer to recover Texas, new mexico and arizona for mexico in order to distract U.S from germany and entering war
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Sedition Act
Definition
made it a crime to direpute the government or interfere with the war effort
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