In the democratic political machine, a shady and powerful politician who ran Tammany Hall
Who was Boss Tweed?
100
Ready-to-fight politician who ordered George Dewey to capture the Spanish Philippines and then went down to Cuba to fight the Spaniards himself.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt???????????????!!!!
100
Angry farmers who wanted to go into politics to stop the rich minority from victimizing the poor majority.
What are populists?
100
This group sought to improve conditions for workers by making sure the government kept issuing depreciating paper money.
What is the Greenback Labor Party?
100
A disorganized victory for the Americans that won the US Cuba, Puerto Rico, and also a free ticket to that rollercoaster ride called imperialism in 113 days.
What was the Spanish-American War?
200
Also known as horizontal integration, this form of monopoly allowed businesses to work together as if they were one company.
What is a trust?
200
These people snuck into certain Indian lands to claim property before others had a chance.
Who were the Sooners?
200
Angry strike caused by the Pullman Palace Car Company cutting wages. Troops were called in and people were jailed without a trial, which made the populists even more mad, if that's even possible
What was the Pullman strike (1894)?
200
Formed in 1890. They brought feminism BACK!
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association? (NAWSA)
200
This 1887 act dissolved native tribes, removing their status as legal entities, and it attempted to make the Indians more like whites. It allotted land to Indians and said they could keep that land and become citizens if they "behaved."
What was the Dawes Severalty Act?
300
An agreement between corporations to divide up business in a certain area and share the profits.
What is a pool?
(Okay fine trust is alright too)
300
If this man could marry silver, he would.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
300
Angry Cubans were real angry because this amendment limited Cuban independence and said Cuba would have to sell/lease coaling/naval stations to the US.
What is the Platt Amendment?
300
These states were rushed into the country because the Republicans in Congress wanted more Republican states.
(Name at least 3)
What are Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, (and a partridge in a pear tree?)
300
The decision to take control of this country/area pitted the Protestant missionaries and jingoists against the Anti-Imperialist League.
What are the Philippines?
400
Unfair agreements that corporations forced on workers so that they wouldn't join labor unions.
What are ironclad oaths/yellow dog contracts?
400
The main type of people that went out West.
What are farmers and miners?
400
Angry Republicans were real angry because ______ did not support imperialism and jingoism, so no taking Hawaii by force.
Who was Grover Cleveland?
(Who at one receives too little credit and too much screen time, in my opinion)
400
This act, passed when William McKinley was in office, made it so that all paper money had to be redeemed with gold.
What was the Gold Standard Act of 1900?
400
The McKinley Tariff of 1890 hurt sugar production here, so whites and American troops assisted the people in a revolt and hoped to annex _____ to the US.
What is Hawaii?
500
Controlling every step of the manufacturing process
Think
Carnegie
the
steel
man
What is vertical integration?
500
While US was in the midst of the clamor for more kindergartens and high schools, this educator and orator argued for better education for blacks.
Who was Booker T. Washington
500
This book made some somewhat angry high schoolers real angry.
What is the American Pageant, 15th edition, by David Kennedy and Lizabath Cohen?
500
This act barred an entire country's people from immigrating to the US.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
500
Theory that caused a religious split in between fundamentalists and accomodationist Christians who didn't take the Bible word for word/adapted religious thinking for modern times.