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| 76626175 | (CW) Macune | creator Sub-Treasury plan of the Farmer's Alliance | |
| 76626176 | Mary Lease | "raise less corn and more hell."; Farmer's Alliance | |
| 76626744 | Sam Hose | Disputed wages, accused of killing his employers. Killed in front of a crowd of 2000+ witnesses. Hanged, dismembered, and his knuckles displayed as a warning. | |
| 76626745 | United States v Schipp | the first time any whites were punished for participation in a lynching. Aftermath of the Ed Johnson lynching | |
| 76626771 | Ida B. Wells | began investigating lynchings after Ed Johnson case. co-founded NAACP | |
| 76632599 | Omaha Platform | platform of Populist party to unite all labor, farming & industrial | |
| 76632889 | (Henry Clay) Frick | owned mill in Homestead, PA, where the very important workers strike took place | |
| 76633036 | Coxey's army | Marched on Washington, DC. Demanded public works program. (1890s) | |
| 76642461 | 13th amendment | "Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." | |
| 76642777 | Plessy vs Ferguson | Court rules 8-1 that the law segregating the railcars was constitutional. (1890s) | |
| 76642778 | (John Marshall) Harlan | only supreme court justice who opposed the ruling of Plessy vs Ferguson | |
| 76642990 | 15th amendment | prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" | |
| 76689650 | 14th amendment | "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of live, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." overrules Dred Scott vs Sanford | |
| 76689849 | Chief Joseph | leader of the Nez Perce during General Oliver O. Howard's attempt to forcibly remove his band and the other "non-treaty" Nez Perce to a reservation in Idaho. | |
| 76689850 | Nez Perce | Won every battle but one against the US. was fighting with only ~200 people | |
| 76689986 | (Colonel John) Chivington | man responsible for the Sand Creek massacre. | |
| 76690038 | Wovoka | created the Ghost Dance religion | |
| 76690063 | Carlisle School | Motto was "Kill the Indian, Save the man." It was a school meant to change the Indians into whites | |
| 76690076 | Dawes Act | Each Indian family given 160 acres, drawn from the reservation. (1880s). greatly reduced the amount of land Indian's controlled. The proceeds were used to pay for the ethnocidic schools | |
| 76690144 | (William Randolph) Hearst | established first media empire. established Yellow Journalism. | |
| 76690324 | (Alfred) Sloan | competitor of Henry Ford's. created GM. divided GM into various companies with different images. | |
| 76690528 | Boer War | war in South Africa in the 1900s where the British were fighting for control. | |
| 76690732 | (Samuel) Gompers | became leader of the American Federation of Labor in the 1900s. advocated "bread and butter" unionism and kept unskilled laborers out of the AFL. | |
| 76721491 | sharecropping | a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land (e.g., 50% of the crop) | |
| 76721492 | crop-lien | way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests. resulted in dept-peonage | |
| 76723167 | Mississippi Plan | devised by the Democratic Party to overthrow the Republican Party in the state of Mississippi by means of organized threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote, in order to regain political control of the legislature and governor's office. Later employed by most of the southern states. Included a poll tax, literacy test, & a grandfather clause | |
| 76726862 | Comstock act | made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail, including contraceptive devices and information. | |
| 76727246 | Sand Creek Massacre | 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory. resulted in Congress creating 2 reservations for the Indians. | |
| 76727247 | Custer's Last Stand | an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army | |
| 76729899 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic and Populist candidate in the Election of 1896. He lost. advocated bimetalism | |
| 76734313 | Samuel Tilden | the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876 (he won the popular vote). | |
| 76734314 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican candidate for President in the election of 1876. was elected president through the compromise of 1877. only president whose election was decided by a congressional commission. | |
| 76735110 | cartels (pools) | a voluntary agreement among competing companies to fix prices and divide markets. set prices, set production quotas, determine who can sell where and when. | |
| 76735756 | trusts | Competing companies give control of their business to a board of trustees, which then run all of the companies as a single entity. | |
| 76735757 | holding company | A company that buys stock in other companies. | |
| 76739730 | Queen Lil | Last queen of Hawaii. Was imprisoned by American businessmen looking to annex Hawaii to the US | |
| 76740500 | USS Maine | exploded under mysterious conditions. Helped to spur the Spanish American War | |
| 76740561 | DeLome Letter | Letter written by Spain's ambassador to the US insulting Pres. McKinley. Helped to spur the Spanish American War | |
| 76741633 | Mahan | favored modernization and expansion of the Navy. Ideas were followed by US and Germany. | |
| 76741889 | Teller amendment | the US has no territorial designs on Cuba and will not seek to annex Cuba. | |
| 76742270 | (Major Littleton) Waller. | destroyed the entire village of Samar during the Spanish American War | |
| 76742271 | (General Jacob) Smith | ordered the destruction of Samar (Spanish American War) | |
| 76742788 | Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine | US will militarily intervene in the western hemisphere to contain any problem that might bring foreign intervention. | |
| 76742858 | Platt Amendment | amendment to Cuban constitution allowing US to intervene in Cuban affairs as it deemed necessary. | |
| 76804880 | Marcus Garvey | founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Pan-Africanist. Separatist. | |
| 76804881 | IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) | international workers union. split by internal conflict in the 1920s. | |
| 76804882 | muckracker | a reporter or writer who investigates and publishes truthful reports involving a host of social issues, broadly including crime and corruption | |
| 76805803 | The Jungle | novel by Upton Sinclair. highlighted the plight of the working class and showed the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century. | |
| 76806090 | 16th amendment | allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. | |
| 76806091 | 17th amendment | established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote | |
| 76806092 | 18th amendment | established Prohibition in the United States | |
| 76806093 | 19th amendment | prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. | |
| 76815452 | Zimmerman telegram | letter from German Foreign secretary to Germany's ambassador to Mexico proposing that Mexico join Germany in war against the United States. As part of this, if the Germans won, they promised to return the land of the US that was part of the Mexican Cession. | |
| 76815453 | Lusitania | British ship sunk during WWI | |
| 76816785 | Espionage Act | prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations, support America's enemies during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or interfere with military recruitment. (WWI era) | |
| 76816786 | Sedition Act | forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt | |
| 76929666 | AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) | the government paid farmers to grow nothing or eliminate excess livestock. | |
| 76929667 | NRA (National Recovery Act) | bring together labor, management, and government to rationally plan industry. | |
| 76930951 | fascism | government directs and controls the economy with private investment. | |
| 76930952 | welfare capitalism | government assumes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens | |
| 76930953 | totalitarian communism | state direction AND state ownership. | |
| 76931370 | (John Maynard) Keynes | author of the Economic Consequences of Peace | |
| 76932297 | (Samuel) Insull | Created the national power grid. Built a business empire on massive debt. | |
| 76934051 | Scopes Trial | high school biology teacher was accused of violating the state's Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution. | |
| 76948553 | Immigration Act | Ethnic groups could come into the United States each year at a rate of 2% of their 1890 population (1920s) | |
| 76950169 | (David) Stephenson | organized the KKK in the 20's, sold robes. His conviction for kidnapping signaled the end of the new KKK. | |
| 76950365 | UNIA (United Negro Improvement Agency) | organized by Marcus Garvey. Operated grocery stores, restaurants, clothing stores, and even operated a steamship line called the Black Star Line | |
| 76950617 | Eugene Debs | leader of the IWW. Was arrested for violating Espionage & Sedition Acts. Ran for president from Jail. | |
| 76975311 | Blue Laws | Made it illegal to conduct most forms of business on Sunday. | |
| 76983758 | Seward | Envisioned an empire stretching from Alaska to Mexico to Iceland, but only acquired Alaska and the Midway Islands. |
