Politics and Parties
The Progressive Party candidate in 1912
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Using both gold and silver as the standard for money
What is bimetallism?
He was assassinated in 1881 and succeeded by Chester A. Arthur
Who is James A. Garfield?
Pioneers in catalog sales (3 possible)
Who are Montgomery Ward, Sears, Roebuck?
The movement that brought speakers and entertainment to many towns and cities
What is the Chautauqua Movement?
The 2 factions of the Republican Party around 1880
What are the Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds?
The term used to describe southern Democrats after Reconstruction (2 possible)
The President most associated with the construction of the Panama Canal
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The term given to the practice of Theodore Roosevelt's administration of filing suits to break up business trusts
What is trust-busting?
The party supported by wealthy industrialists, Midwestern farmers, blacks, & Union war veterans after the Civil War
What is the Republican Party?
A chartered business that is considered a legal person
What is a corporation?
Secretary of State for most of Wilson's first term
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The black educator who founded Tuskegee Institute and accepted social segregation and discrimination
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The banking system begun in 1913
The party formed in the early 1890s by farmers who felt overlooked by the Republicans and Democrats
What is the Populist Party (or the People's Party)?
The Supreme Court decision that upheld the practice of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
The office Theodore Roosevelt held before becoming Vice President
What is the Governor of New York?
The Wisconsin senator who was a leading spokesman for Progressivism
Who is Robert LaFollette?
The British passenger liner sunk by the Germans on May 7, 1915
What is the Lusitania?
The political party that controlled the South after Reconstruction
What is the Democratic Party?
The name given to journalists and authors who exposed the abuses and failings of American life
Who are Muckrakers?
The phrase used in Wilson's 1916 campaign that helped him get re-elected
What is "He Kept Us Out of War"?
John Dewey was influential in this field
What is education?
The treaty negotiated to end The Great War and was defeated by the Senate
What is the Treaty of Versailles?