Politics of Deadlock
White southerners were strong supporters of this party
Democrats
Journalists who exposed problems of society
mukrakers
Urban political system progressives sought to eliminate-although it sometimes cooperated with political reform
boss or machine system
Economic catastrophe that shaped 1890s politics
Panic of 1893
US Supreme Court case allowing Jim Crow system in post reconstruction South
Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896, or Civil Rights Cases 1883
This law was the beginnings of civil service for the US
Pendleton Act
She led the settlement Ouse movement of the 1890s, a source of progressive ideas
Jane Addams
This method of selecting candidates from each party to run in the general election was designed to reduce the power of the party bosses
Direct primary
Democratic and populist nominee from President in 1896
William J Bryan
Most dominant politician of the 1820s and 1830s
Jackson
First attempt to limit power of monopoly with this 1890 law
Sherman Antitrust Act
Outside the US, the “progressive reform” was most often called this
Social Democracy
She led the early 20th century women’s suffrage movement, and sought to make it less threatening to traditional ideas about women
Carrie C. Catt
Republican program to end the depression, enacted quickly after election of 1896
high tariff
Architect of the American System, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Whig Party
Henry Clay
According to your text, the most important job of the President in the Gilded age
Hire people for Federal jobs
Progressives believed that this trained group could best manage government and the economy
Professionals or experts
Most famous progressive governor of Wisconsin, later US Senator
Robert LaFolette
This Chicago strike of 1894 increased middle class fear of revolution
Pullman Strike
Popular sovereignty in this territory in the 1850s led to a violent conflict
Kansas
After state laws were struck down by Supreme Court in the Wabash Case, the congressional attempt to regulate the railroads
interstate commerce commission
Many progressive ideas emerged from this religious movement of the 1890s, led by Fr. William D.P. Bliss in Boston
Social Gospel Movement
Led by the Big Bill Haywood, his labor union was unafraid to use violence, and sought to end the capitalist system
Industrial Workers of the World, or wobblies
He led a large group of unemployed workers to Washington, DC, demanding a government road building program
Jacob Coxey
Southerners claimed his 1831 slave uprising was inspired by Northern Abolitionists
Nat Turner