320657157 | Frances Willard | temperance and womens's suffrage advocate; leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union | 0 | |
320657158 | Henry Clay Frick | toughest anti-labor man in the steel industry; put in charge of the Homestead plant | 1 | |
320657159 | Alexander Berkman | Russian immigrant who killed the strike by trying to assasinate Frick | 2 | |
320657160 | George M. Pullman | owner of a railroad car making company | 3 | |
320657161 | Eugene V. Debs | leader of the American Railway Union | 4 | |
320657162 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | suffragette who established the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) | 5 | |
320657163 | Susan B. Anthony | suffragette who established the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) | 6 | |
320657164 | William McKinley | governor of Ohio; Republican candidate | 7 | |
320657165 | William Jennings Bryan | 36-year-old Democratic candidate from Nebraska also backed by the People's Party | 8 | |
320657166 | Tom Watson | Bryan's running mate who was chosen by the People's Party | 9 | |
320657167 | Theodore Roosevelt | an expasionist who was in the Navy and orchestrated the attack on Manilla in the Philippines | 10 | |
320657168 | Farmer's Alliance | Lampass County Texas; farmer's union | 11 | |
320657169 | Colored Farmer's Alliance | African American farmer's union in Texas | 12 | |
320657170 | People's Party (Populist Party) | new 3rd party; farmers, laborers, and common folk; started Populist Movement | 13 | |
320657171 | subtreasury | farmers store nonperishable crops and receive commodity credit from the government | 14 | |
320657172 | Homestead lockout | strike for better working conditions, higher wages, shorter hours, and control over mechanization--lockout of Carnegie mill; involved Frick and hired Pinkerton security guards; broken by Berkman's attempted assasination of Frick | 15 | |
320657173 | Cripple Creek Miner's strike of 1894 | Colorado; caused by demands for a shorter work day | 16 | |
320657174 | American Railway Union (ARU) | railway union that supported the strikers in the Pullman boycott | 17 | |
320657175 | Pullman boycott | ARU boycotted Pullman railway cars | 18 | |
320657176 | Coxey's Army | led by Jacob S. Coxey (Massilon, OH) army of inemplyed marched on Washington | 19 | |
320657177 | Boxer uprising | Chinese club that killed Chinese Christians and missionaries | 20 | |
320657178 | Monroe Doctrine | Europe stay out of Western affairs | 21 | |
320657179 | Open Door policy | trade with China don't colonize it | 22 | |
320657180 | Spanish-American War | In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence; US gainedPuerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines | 23 | |
320657181 | yellow journalism | Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers; named for the colored ink used | 24 |
The American Promise: A Compact History--Ch20 Dissent, Depression, and War Flashcards
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