Presidents
His assassination resulted in the Pendleton Civil Service Act.
Who is James Garfield?
Bombing in May of 1886 that took place at this square in Chicago that also had a strike, rally, and execution of four leaders involved in the incident.
What is the Haymarket Square Bombing?
1906 act which set federal regulations for meatpacking plants and established a system of federal inspection
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism
What is Tammany Hall?
Allowed citizens to vote on an issue suggested by the state legislature
What are referendums?
Created his "New Freedom", the Federal Reserve Act, and oversaw a great wave of progressive reforms.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
A strike of the workers living in George Pullman's model company town near Chicago. In 1894 he announced a general cut in wages and fired the leaders of the workers' delegation that came to bargain with him
What is Pullman's Strike?
Lengthened Sherman Anti-Trust Act's list of practices. Exempted labor unions from being called trusts, legalized strikes and peaceful picketing by labor union members.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
FRACTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY; led by James G Blaine; favored reform; against patronage
What are Half-Breeds?
1912 election split republicans, so Roosevelt broke away forming his own Progressive Party. His loss led to the election of Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson, but he gained more third party votes than ever before
What is the Bull Moose Party?
This Republican candidate defeated William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 presidential election. As a supporter of big business, he pushed for high protective tariffs. Under his leadership, the U.S. became an imperial world power.
Who is William McKinley?
Serious economic depression. Began due to rail road companies over-extending themselves, causing bank failures. Was the worst economic collapse in the history of the country until that point, and, some say, as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s
What is the Panic of 1893?
President Theodore Roosevelt's plan for reform; all Americans are entitled to an equal opportunity to succeed
What is the Square Deal?
Allowed the president to decide which federal jobs would be filled according to bipartisan Civil Service Commission
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
Establishes the direct election of US senators by popular vote
What is the 17th Amendment?
26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, and "Square Deal"
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
An impassioned address by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic Convention, in which he attacked the "gold bugs" who insisted that U.S. currency be backed only with gold
What is the Cross of Gold Speech?
Act that ended child labor, and ended selling products made from child labor and gave congress the responsibility of regulating interstate commerce
What is the Keating Owen Act?
1887, dismantled American Indian tribes, set up individuals as family heads with 160 acres, tried to make rugged individualists out of the Indians, attempt to assimilate the Indian population into that of the American
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
Any government activity designed to break up trusts or monopolies.
What is Trustbusting?
The most significant 3-way election since 1860
What is the Election of 1912?
Fire in New York City in 1911 that killed 146 workers and later led to new factory inspection and safety laws
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
(1903) Fined Railroads who gave rebates and shippers who accepted them. It gave more power than the ICC to regulate the monopolistic railroads
What is the Elkins Act?
Political bosses ran organizations that helped immigrants/poor people in exchange for their vote
President Taft's policy of using economic interests as an inconspicuous way to bind other nations to the US
What is Dollar Diplomacy?