Term 1-5
a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, country, or state
What are Political Machines?
This began with financial crises in Vienna in June and in New York City in September, marked the end of the long-term expansion in the world economy that had begun in the late 1840s.
What is Panic of 1873?
This concisely documented the grievances and demands of farmers in 1892. It was also one of the most radical platforms to this point in American history. Among other things, it called for government ownership and operation of the railroad, telephone, and telegraph systems.
What is Omaha Platform?
Between 1894 and 1900 the North Carolina Republican and Populist Parties cooperated in state elections and in state government. That cooperation was labeled "Fusion" by its Democratic opponents, although Republicans and Populists maintained separate organizations and did not describe their actions as fusion. In the middle and late 1890s Republican-Populist cooperation resulted in newly configured delegations from North Carolina to the U.S. Congress, Populist-Republican control of the General Assembly, Republicans and Populists in state executive offices, and a non-Democratic state supreme court.
What is Fusion of Democrats and Populists?
The founding of this was by several unions of skilled workers in 1886 marked the beginning of a continuous large-scale labor movement in the United States. Its member groups comprised national trade or craft unions that organized local unions and negotiated wages, hours, and working conditions.
What is American Federation of Labor?
policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society.
What is Laissez-Faire economics.
a federal statute which prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace. It outlaws any contract, conspiracy, or combination of business interests in restraint of foreign or interstate trade.
What is Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890?
This as an economic depression in the United States that began in 1893 and ended in 1897. It deeply affected every sector of the economy and produced political upheaval that led to the political realignment of 1896 and the presidency of William McKinley.
What is the Panic of 1893?
the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A violent confrontation between police and labor protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers’ rights. It has been associated with May Day (May 1) since that day’s designation as International Workers’ Day by the Second International in 1889.
What is Haymarket Bombing?
20th president of the United States, who had the second shortest tenure in U.S. presidential history. On July 2, 1881, after only four months in office, while on his way to a family vacation in New England, Garfield was shot twice in the railroad station in Washington, D.C., by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker with messianic visions.
What is the Assassination of James Garfield?
on February 4, 1887, this created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry. With this act, the railroads became the first industry subject to Federal regulation.
What is Interstate Commerce Act?
The Panic of 1907 was a financial crisis set off by a series of bad banking decisions and a frenzy of withdrawals caused by public distrust of the banking system. This person and other wealthy Wall Street bankers lent their own funds to save the country from a severe financial crisis.
What is JP Morgan Bail Out?
an expansion strategy adopted by a company that involves the acquisition of another company in the same business line.
What is Horizontal Integration?
A violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892, in Pennsylvania. This event pitted the company’s management which included owner American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and American industrialist Henry Clay Frick, the strikebreakers who had been hired, and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency against members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, who worked for the company.
What is Homestead Strike?
This provided that federal government jobs be awarded based on merit and that government employees be selected through competitive exams.
What is the Pendleton Act of 1881?
The 51st United States Congress, was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Another name for this congress is?
What is Billion Dollar Congress?
This person was a Democratic and Populist leader and a magnetic orator who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency. He was influential in the eventual adoption of such reforms as popular election of senators, income tax, creation of the Department of Labor, Prohibition, and women’s suffrage.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
an expansion strategy where one company takes control over one or more stages in the production or distribution of a product.
What is Vertical Integration?
This is your APUSH teacher's favorite color. This color is usually found on a solanum melongena in which are cultivated mainly in warm climate areas like Southwest Asia.
What is Eggplant Purple?
The 24th president of the United States and the only president ever to serve two discontinuous terms. He distinguished himself as one of the few truly honest and principled politicians of the Gilded Age. His view of the president’s function as primarily to block legislative excesses made him quite popular during his first term, but that view cost him public support during his second term when he steadfastly denied a positive role for government in dealing with the worst economic collapse the nation had yet faced.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
Farmers in 1890 decided to field candidates for state and national offices under diverse party labels. Farm leaders surprised themselves by gaining partial or complete control of twelve state legislatures and by electing six governors, three senators, and approximately fifty congressmen. Elated over their success, the agrarian leaders decided it was time to create a national farm and labor party. Accordingly in July 1892, they held a convention in Omaha, Nebraska. The agrarians created the People’s or Populist Party, drafted a platform, and nominated James B. Weaver for president and James G. Field for vice president.
What is the Rise of the Farmer’s Populist Party?
classic of American political oratory delivered on July 8, 1896, by William Jennings Bryan in closing the debate on the party platform at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago during the campaign for the presidential election of 1896.
What is the “Cross of Gold Speech” ?
the first important national labor organization in the United States, founded in 1869. Named by its first leader, Uriah Smith Stephens, it originated as a secret organization meant to protect its members from employer retaliations. Secrecy also gave the organization an emotional appeal.
What is Knights of Labor?
This grade is what we will recieve after submitting this project. It is the grade you wish you got in precal or physics.
What is 100?