Elections & Politics
Won the presidential election of 1892?
Who is Grover Cleveland?
These issues divided the Democrats
What are tariffs & the gold vs. silver issue?
Tactics used in the south to prevent blacks from voting
What are Residency rules, crimes, poll tax, literacy test, primaries, grandfather clause?
Factors that led to the success of the Progressive Movement?
What is middle-class, urban, educated reformers, Populism?
Two books that encouraged overseas expansion
What are Strong's Our Country and Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power?
Hit the country soon after Cleveland took office
What is the Panic of 1893?
This was passed and then declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
What is personal income tax?
Things blacks in the North were facing during this time
What is prejudice, discrimination and segregation?
Secret ballot, primaries, initiative, referendum, recall, direct election of Senators, off-year elections, women’s suffrage
What election reforms did Progressives propose?
Whites overthrew the monarchy, appealed for annexation
How did the U.S. take over Hawaii?
President Cleveland blamed the economic downturn on this.
What is the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?
The dilemma of the Populist Party in 1896
What is whether to nominate Bryan or another candidate?
Applied only to state action, not individuals
What did the Supreme Court rule in 1883 about the 14th Amendment?
The first city to adopt a commission government
What is Galveston, TX?
Insulting letter about McKinley; USS Maine explosion
What events pushed the U.S. into the Spanish-American War?
McKinley – Republican; Bryan – Democrat
Who were the major party nominees in 1896?
McKinley = front porch speeches; Bryan = nationwide tour
How did McKinley and Bryan differ in their campaigning?
Upheld “separate but equal”
What was the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
Wisconsin Senator who was the leading Progressive spokesman
Who is Robert M. LaFollette
Land the U.S. gained after the Spanish-American War
What are Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam & Wake Island?
Two important pieces of legislation passed during McKinley’s term
What are the Dingley Tariff and Gold Standard Act?
Bryan weak with laborers; Democrats blamed for recession
What are reasons why McKinley won the election in 1896?
Lynching
What is the term for mob execution of a black person?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Reasons European nations had spheres of influence in China