The Wizard of Oz.
Crisis Time
Who Said, What Said
Imperial Designs
Not Teddy, Not Yet
"A Splendid Little War"
Populist Issues
100
Dorothy and her companions are a stand in for this real-life event where real people took to the road to see "the wizard" and ask for government created public works projects to put them back to work and make them whole.
What is Coxey's Army?
100
Political party that dominated southern politics and northern urban centers
What is the Democratic Party
100
Upon killing him Charles Guiteau shouted "I am a stalwart and Arthur is president now!"
Who is James A. Garfield?
100
Writer John Fiske echoed this popular belief at the time, when he predicted in 1885 that the English-speaking people of the world would eventually control every land that was not the seat of an "established civilization." That nations, were like biological species, and they struggled for survival and supremacy.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
At the time war with Cuba broke out, Teddy Roosevelt was a high ranking civilian official in this military branch
What is the U.S. Navy?
100
At the same time Cuba was engulfed in a violent revolt, American publishers were engaged in a ruthless circulation war at home. The uprising helped sell newspapers and this type of journalism helped shape public opinion against the Spanish monarchy and support for U.S. intervention.
What is Yellow Journalism?
100
Voting reform measure championed by the Populists to reduce voter intimidation. Also used by Southern whites to enact voter suppression.
What is the Secret Ballot/ Australian Ballot
200
"Emerald City" is a stand in this real city. A place where people go and petition for representation or to represent:
What is Washington D.C.
200
This strike in 1894 resulted in the stoppage of railroads and commerce in 27 states. Coupled with the Homestead strike, it created fear and anxiety for many the country was on the brink of revolution.
What is the Pullman Strike?
200
The wilderness masters the colonist....But the most important effect of the frontier has been in the promotion of democracy here and in Europe. As has been indicated, the frontier is productive of individualism.
What is Frederick Turner Jackson/ Frontier Thesis?
200
In 1893, American planted staged a coup in this pacific nation and called for U.S. protection. They hoped being part of the United States would remove high tariffs on their exports.
What is Hawaii?
200
Teddy Roosevelt's passion to join the fight in Cuba reflected his desire to correct his father's reluctance to fight in this major war:
What is the Civil War?
200
May 1, 1898- First shots of the Spanish-American war are fired not in Cuba, but in this pacific imperial territory.
What is the Philippines?
200
Fiery populist orator from the plains of Kansas. The "Kansas Pythoness" gave voice to farmers plight and rage against capitalists, monopolists, and establishment politicians.
Who is Mary E. Lease?
300
Oz is derived from ounce, which is a standard measurement of this item:
What is Gold?
300
Started when the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was unable to meet payments on loans. A shock reverberated through the economy, leading to the collapse of the stock market and a wave of bank failures. Within six months- 8,000 businesses, 156 railroads, and 400 banks failed.
What is the Panic of 1893?
300
The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts his country, the over-civilized man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man, and the man of dull mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills “stern men with empires in their brains”-all these, of course, shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties; shrink from seeing us build a navy and an army adequate to our needs; shrink from seeing us do our share of the world’s work,"
Who is Teddy Roosevelt/ The Strenuous Life?
300
The Cleveland administration took an active interest in Latin American affairs and upholding the Monroe Doctrine. A major test to their commitment occurred in 1895 when Venezuela was involved in a border dispute with this major European power over land where gold was discovered.
What is Great Britain?
300
Famous Volunteer group of Cavalry soldiers during the Spanish-American War. One big band of misfits: bankers, cowboys, polo players, criminals, and one future president of the United States.
Who are the Rough Riders
300
Sent to the Philippines in 1900, General Arthur MacArthur made the assessment that the rebels were not a small following. Declaring "I have been reluctantly compelled to believe that the Filipino masses are loyal to" this man whom is actually at the head the government.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
300
Early supporters of the populist cause supported expanding suffrage to women, as well as this. The prohibition of alcohol, to maintain moral stability is society.
What is Temperance?
400
Dorothy's slippers in the book were made of this. "There is no place like home" was a stand-in for Populists' hopes that inflation would lower their depts and make it easier to pay the mortgages on their homes.
What is Silver?
400
Jame G. Blaine and the Half-breeds battled this senator from New York and the Stalwarts for control of the Republican party
Who is Roscoe Conkling?
400
There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive’s new freedom away from him..... then kills him to get his land. . . .
And as for a flag for the Philippine Province, it is easily managed. We can have a special one—our States do it: we can have just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones
Who is Mark Twain?
400
Seized during the Spanish-American war and held by the military until the Foraker Act ended military occupation, It was not until 1917 that congress passed the Jones Act, declaring this island an American territory and its inhabitants American citizens.
What is Puerto Rico?
400
Before becoming Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he served in this city post. He ensured officers walked their beat and did not take bribes. His decision to enforce an unpopular law that banned the sale of alcohol in saloons on Sundays made him a very unpopular figure in New York, but he persisted in the crusade even after receiving two letter bombs in the mail.
What is Commissioner of the Police/ Police Commissioner/ NYPD Commissioner.
400
Represents what Kipling argued was Americans' duty as representatives of a modern and "civilized" Christian society
What is "White Man's Burden"?
400
Populists emphatically rejected a major principle of American Industrial capitalism, the belief government should take a hands-off approach to matters of regulating business
What is Laissez-faire?
500
Person who defeated Bryan during the election of 1896, becoming the 25th president of the United States. Helped model the powerless wizard of Oz.
Who is William McKinley?
500
Ohio businessman and populist that gained attention in 1894 for leading a band of 500 unemployed men to Washington D.C. to advocate for a massive government-funded public works program and get people back to work.
Who is Jacob S. Coxey/ What is Coxey's Army
500
"Raise less corn and more hell."
Who is Mary E. Lease?
500
Apostle of Imperialism. American naval officer. His Thesis was simple: Countries with a sea power were great nations of history. U.S. Greatness would rest on its ability to build up its naval strength.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
500
Between 1895 and 1901, Teddy Roosevelt had a total of 6 jobs- Police Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Rough Rider, Governor of this state, Vice-President, and President.
What is New York?
500
When the newly independent Cuba drew up their constitution with no reference to the U.S., congress responded by passing this in 1901 and pressuring Cuba to incorporate it in to their founding document. It barred Cuba from making treaties with other nations and also gave U.S. right to intervene militarily in times of crisis.
What is the Platt Amendment?
500
Republican commitment to Gold with the Gold Standard Act of 1900 could have been a failure and Populist predictions of financial disaster might have been proven correct had it not been for the discovery of huge deposits of Gold in South Africa, Australia, and Seward's folly; otherwise known a the 49th state of the union.
What is Alaska?
600
William Jennings Bryan, "the boy wonder of the platte," "The Great Commoner" received fame and the nomination for the Democratic Presidential candidacy in 1896 with his speech
What is the "Cross of Gold" Speech?
600
Formed by Oliver H. Kelley in 1867, a minor government official. Appalled by the drabness and isolation of rural life, he originally organized this group to give support and community to farmers. After the Panic of 1873, it acted as vehicle of political mobilization.
What the Grange/ National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry/ Patrons of Husbandry?
600
That capitalism, the private ownership of the means of production, is responsible for the insecurity of subsistence, the poverty, misery, and degradation of the ever-growing majority of our people.
What is the Socialist Democratic Party Platform?
600
Proposed by Secretary of State John Hay, This plan hoped to avoid wars with the other great powers, allow American access to trade with China, and maintain the illusion of Chinese Sovereignty and preventing colonial dismemberment
What is Open Door Note/ Open Door Policy?
600
Republican Mark Hanna objected when this man named Roosevelt his running mate:
“Don’t any of you realize there’s only one life between this madman and the presidency?”
Who is William McKinley?
600
This was an important event for the role of the United States in China. Not only were troops sent in 1900, but it also placed the U.S. as head of a multinational coalition. It also helped Hay and Mckinley get support from other great powers for their Open-Door approach.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
600
Populists never attracted much labor support, except from miners from the Rocky Mountain states. Their slogan for expanding the money supply with silver, along with Gold fell in line with the miners' interests.
What is "Free Silver"?
700
Where monetary policy is not only determined by the amount of Gold the government holds, but also by the amount of Silver in its stock. This was a major policy proposal put forward by the Populists and William Jennings Bryan.
What is bimetallism
700
Chester A. Arthur, a known spoilsman and ally of Roscoe Conkling, sought to chart an independent path as President. In 1883, congress passed, with Arthur's support, the first national civil service reform act, requiring some federal jobs be filled by competitive examinations instead of patronage.
What is the Pendleton Act?
700
We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder....... We charge that the controlling influences dominating both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any substantial reform.
What is Omaha Platform/ Populist Party Platform?
700
Frederick Jackson's Turner's Frontier Thesis lamented an end to this early call for expansion that settled the west and unified the continent. The fact that the Frontier was declared closed in 1893 did not stop renewed calls that America's future prospects now lay abroad.
What is Manifest Destiny?
700
Teddy Roosevelt boldly led a charge up Kettle Hill. Though 100 soldiers died around him, and he called it the "Greatest day of my life," It was minor part of a larger battle, which he would be called the hero of.
What is The Battle of San Juan Hill
700
Before he would become Roosevelt's successor and one-term president, he served as the first civilian governor of the Philippines. Announcing that his role was to prepare the island and its people for eventual independence.
Who is William H. Taft?
700
For the Populists and their allies, the gambled and lost everything on their "fusion" with this party.
What is the Democratic Party/ The Democrats?