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34 Cards in this Set
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Minor V Happerset
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Supreme Court upheld power of state to deny suffrage to women. 1875
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Poll Tax
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voters pay annual tax to vote-a way to limit Black voting
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Williams V Mississippi
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Supreme court upheld literacy tests 1898
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Literacy Test
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Test to prevent African American's from voting.
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Grandfather Clause
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to allow poor whites who couldn't read to vote. If had father/grandfather who voted before 1867 to vote.
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Homestead Act
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1862-passed by Republicans and granted subsidies to transcontinental railroad and pushed other measures to ensure economic growth.
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Munn V Illinois
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1877-upheld Illinois legislation that declared railroads public highways and authorized passage of legislation that established max rates and allowed discrimination.
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Wabash Decision
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court weakened Munn V Illinois-held states could not regulate commerce extending beyond their borders
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ICC
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Interstate commerce commission- investigate and oversee railroad activities.
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Interstate commerce Act
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Created ICC, outlawed rebates and pooling agreements
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Bland-Allison Silver purchase act
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call for partial coinage of silver
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James G Blaine
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Republican nominee in election of 1884- lost to Cleveland.
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Pendleton Act
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reform civil service- create bipartisan civil service commission to administer competitive examination and appoint officeholders on bases of merit
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McKinley tariff act
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raise tariff about 4% , allow novel reciprocity commisions and allow pres to lower duties if other countries do the same.
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Sherman Antitrust act
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first fed attempt to regulate big businesses- declared contracts/combinations illegal
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US V E.C Knicht Co
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first judicial interpretation of teh lawseverely cripple Antitrust act. Allowed company (as manufacturer) to not be subject to law
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Sherman silver purchase act
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try to end trouble with silver. directed treasury to purchase 4.5 mil ounces of silver a month and issue legal tender in form of treasury notes to pay for it.
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silverites
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political party wanted 16:1/silver to be part of currency
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Billion Dollar Congress
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spent billions on grants and appropriations
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National Farmers alliance and industrial union
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southern alliance-1875 estblished grain elevators, marketing assoc and reatil stores.
Colored Farmers nat alliance-enlist southern black farmers. struck for higher wages in S. NW alliance-small organization. wanted similiar things to S alliance but did not like S's secrecy, central control and seperate organizations for blackss. |
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Ocala demands
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creation of nat sub treasury system, claim treasury notes for up to 80% of local market value of crop, urge free coinage of silver, end to protective tariffs, fed income tax, direct election of senators by voters instead of state leg, tioghter reg of railroad companies
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populist party
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July 1892 created in Omaha. work to unite black/white farmers. platform similiar to ocala demands,
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greenback-labor party
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created in 1875-main support came from farmers. coinage of silver on par with gold, adequate supply of money, taxing of governement bonds, max 8hr work day, grad. income tax, opposition to RR land grants
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industrail black friday
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great crash of 1929-railroad and industrial stock plummet, several major firms went backrupt,.
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panic of 1893
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major railroads failed, factories/mines shut down.
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coxey's army
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unemployed marched on Washington led by Jacob Coxey
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pullman strike
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Coxey's army failed, as did others, but people still upset. employees of Pullman car company went on strike to protest wage cuts, high rents and layoffs. Strike paralyze W side of nation. Cleveland put end to strike because it mess with mail
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in re debs
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Supreme court endorse use of injunction in labor disputes-give businesses and gov effective antilabor weapon.
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wilson-gorman tariff act
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slightly reduce tariff rates from numbers in 1890 McKinley tariff act.
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romanticism V realism
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in romanticism-charcters larger than life, plot has unusual events, ending happy, language literary, settings made up.
Realism-charcters resemble ordinary people, plot develpoed with ordinary events, ending may be unhappy, writer uses common speech, settings usually exist |
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coins financial school
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most popular of silver pamphlets, published in 1894. had young cointutoring people on the currency and left bankers, lawyers and scholars leaning toward silver.
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W.J. Bryan
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pres nominee for silverites party. public speaker, wanted silver currency
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cross of gold speech
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given by W.J.B as a speech against gold.
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gold standard act
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March 1900-declare gold the standard of currency and end silver controversy.
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