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| 1146977340 | A belief that unregulated competition was the best option for progress, and the government should encourage economical growth. | laissez-faire | |
| 1146977341 | A social and political group whose members consist of former Civil War veterans who lobbied for the Republican Party, who led the nation out of the Civil War. | Grand Army of the Republic | |
| 1146977342 | Founded in 1877, this supported an expanse in money supply, health and safety regulations in the workplace, and other mutual factors for farmers and workers. | Greenback Party | |
| 1146977343 | "Easy Money" that was used to cover up debts. | Greenbacks | |
| 1146977344 | Instructed the treasury to buy the equivalence of silver outputted by mining (4.5 million) and to issue treasury notes redeemable for silver or gold, which declined as the government didn't want pay as much for silver from overseas as initially. | Sherman Silver Purchase Act | |
| 1146977345 | A Missouri senator alongside an editor of the Nation who argued for a professional civil service based on merit. | Carl Schurz, E.L.Godkin and civil service reform | |
| 1146977346 | Drafted by the Civil Service Reform League in 1881, this established a commission to examine and set standards of merit for federal job positions, forbidding political candidates from soliciting contributions from government workers. | Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 | |
| 1146977347 | Term used for Republican reformers. It is also the Algonquian term for a renegade chief. | Mugwumps | |
| 1146977348 | A major source of revenue from imports before the federal income tax. | Tariff (Duties) | |
| 1146977349 | Distributed money gained from the federal tariff was usually used to pay veterans' pensions and expensive public work programs in the states, called _____. | Pork-barrel projects | |
| 1146977350 | A organization centered in the midwest that aimed to help farmers become more self sustaining by offering discounts on machinery and built stores that removed the middlemen, including local bankers, grain brokers and merchants, by accepting only cash. It laid the foundation for the Farmers' Alliance. | Grange (Patrons of Husbandry) | |
| 1146977351 | Stated that the railroads had to establish maximum rates for the storage of grain, such as the Granger laws, saying the states have the right to police power. | Munn v. Illinois 1877 | |
| 1146977352 | Established the ICC after passing the Interstate Commerce Act in order to reaffirm the federal government's power to oversee interstate transportation. | Wabash v. Illinois 1886 | |
| 1147090650 | Implemented a five-member Commission called the ICC, who oversaw practices of interstate railroads, banning monopolistic activity, including pooling, rebates and discriminatory short-distance rates. | Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 | |
| 1147090651 | Beginning in Texas and soon spreading across the nation, this organization functioned similarly to the Grange, however didn't die off, soon enclosing the Northwestern Alliance, Southern Alliance, and the National Colored Alliance that formed a political campaign. | Farmers' Alliance | |
| 1147833042 | Created in 1891, it was created from former Grangers and prohibitionists, rallying for women equality. | National Women's Alliance | |
| 1147833043 | A Georgia leader from the Southern Alliance who encouraged corporation between white and black farmers | Tom Watson | |
| 1147833044 | A Wichita lawyer who encouraged the nation to plant seeds of change and helped form the Populist Party | Mary E. Lease | |
| 1147833045 | Established by the many alliance leaders from the Farmers' Alliances in 1892, their Presidential nomination went to Civil War hero James B. Weaver of Iowa and the V.P. nomination to Virginian James Field. Their main goals were to reduce tariffs, implement an income tax, to hand over ownership of the railroads to the public, to federally fund irrigation research, ban alien landownership, an increase of governmental involvement for farmers and workers, and allow silver to be able to be coined. | Populist Party (People's Party of the U.S.) | |
| 1147833046 | Inquired by Charles Macune, this allowed farmers to store their nonperishable commodities in government warehouses while receiving small interest loans while using the crops while their commodities where stored and then be able to sell when the demand of the commodities increases. | sub-treasury plan | |
| 1147833047 | A Supreme Court case the upheld a Louisiana law that segregated railroad cars, saying that equal opportunities were available to both race and therefore constitutional. | Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
| 1147833048 | Punishment for those who disregarded the law, usually used on blacks. Through the 1880s and 1890s, about a hundred blacks were lynched annually in the United States, mainly in the South. The stated reasons, often the rape of a white woman, frequently arose from rumor and unsubstantiated accusations. | lynching | |
| 1147833049 | Said that if equal opportunities were available to both races separately, segregation was acceptable and constitutional. Wasn't abandoned by the Supreme Court until 1954. | "separate but equal" doctrine | |
| 1147833050 | The nation's foremost black leader from the 1890s to his death in 1915, he organized a black state vocational school in Alabama that became Tuskegee University while urged American blacks to learn skills, such as farming, and persevere through, believing that seeing blacks economical value, racism would fade. | Booker T. Washington | |
| 1147833051 | Set off a four-year economic decline. By 1897, about a third of the nation's railroad mileage had plunged into bankruptcy. | Panic of 1893 | |
| 1147833052 | Proposed an idea to solve unemployment by funding a $500 million public-work program using paper money not based on gold but "legal tender" (greenbacks), he was arrested while leading his followers to the Capital. | Jacob Coxey | |
| 1147833053 | Decided by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional because the tax didn't bend to the differing numbers of people in the states. | Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895) | |
| 1147833054 | Democratic nominee for President in 1896 who favored a silver-backed economy. He lost the election to Republican William McKinley. | William Jennings Bryan | |
| 1147833055 | Supported Agrarian radicals who supported the free coinage of silver and were against the gold standard. | free silver | |
| 1147833056 | Set America on the gold standard. | Currency Act of 1900 | |
| 1147833057 | Writer of The Influence of Sea Power upon History, he compared national greatness with sea power and encouraged the U.S. to build theirs up. | Alfred Thayer Mahan | |
| 1147833058 | Written by Alfred Thayer Mahan, it told that national greatness was a by-product of navel power. | The Influence of Sea Power | |
| 1147833059 | Writer of Our Country in 1855, saying that America was trying to train and Christianize the weaker races in the world. | Josiah Strong | |
| 1147833060 | A group of expansionists who proclaimed national greatness and military strength, while supporting social darwinism. | Henry Cabot Lodge, John Hay, Theodore Roosevelt | |
| 1147833061 | A doctrine that claims natural selection as the main force of progression. Therefore, war is seen as vehicle for natural selection to rebuild American manhood. | Social Darwinism | |
| 1147854913 | Editor of the New York City newspaper "The Journal", his attack on the Cuban crisis was called this. | William Randolph Hearst and yellow journalism. | |
| 1147854914 | Editor of the New York City newspaper the "World", he battled with William Hearst's Journal in criticizing the Cuban crisis. | Joseph Pulitzer | |
| 1147854915 | Renounced any U.S. interest in "sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control" of Cuba once its independence was assured. | Teller Amendment | |
| 1147854916 | The president of the American Association for Red Cross who visited Santiago during the Spanish-American War in 1898 and organized relief efforts; even then, 379 American soldiers died and 5000 came down with food poisoning, yellow fever, malaria, or other diseases during and after the war. | Clara Barton | |
| 1147854917 | Stated that America would only withdraw troops after Cuba agreed not to make any treaty's with any foreign power to limit their independence and not borrow outside its means while agreeing to America's right to intervene if necessary; America as established a navel base. | Platt Amendment | |
| 1147854918 | Believe America was violating the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence by ruling over other peoples. | Anti-Imperialist League | |
| 1147854919 | Organized a Filipino independence movement against Spain and fought back against American troops when the Philippines were taken by America using guerrilla warfare. | Emilio Aguinaldo | |
| 1147854920 | Gave authority to a Presidentially appointed Governor General over the Philippines while allowing for a Philippine elected assembly to be formed and gave a promise of eventual self-government, which came in 1946. | Philippine Government Act of 1902 |
