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25 Cards in this Set
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Minor VS Hepperset
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Supreme court decision upheld the power of the states to deny women the right to vote.
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Poll Tax
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Voters had to pay an annual tax to vote.
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Williams VS Mississippi
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Upheld the use of literacy tests in the south.
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Literacy Test
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Used by southern states to exclude the poors and blacks from voting.
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Grandfather Clause
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Used to exclude only blacks from voting. Whites who failed literacy could still vote if their father or grandfather voted before 1867.
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Homestead Act
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Granted subsidies to the transcontinental railroad and pushed other measures to encourage economic growth.
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Munn VS Illinois
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Supreme court upheld Illinois legislation. Declaring that private property affecting the public interest mus submit to being controlled by the public for the common good.
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Wabash Decision
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Narrowed the Munn ruling and held that staters could not regulate commerce extending beyond their borders.
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ICC
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Investigate and oversee railroad activity.
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Created ICC.
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Bland-Allison silver purchase act
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Called for partial coinage of silver.
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Pendleton Act
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Made to reform the civil service.
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McKinley Tariff Act
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Raised tariff duties to 4%. Used duties to promote new industries.
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James G. Blaine
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Republican candidate in election of 1884.
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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Treasury purchased 4.5 million ounces of silver a month and was to issue legal tender in form of treasury notes in payment for it.
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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The first federal attempt to regulate business.
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US vs EC Knight
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The first judicial interpretation of the law.
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Silverities
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Happy with the government purchasing most of the country's silver supply.
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Billion Dollar Congress
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Passed a record number of significant laws that helped shape later policy and asserted the authority of the federal government to a degree the country would not then accept.
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National farmers alliance and industrial union
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Promised unified action to all agricultural problems.
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Ocala Demands
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Called for the creation of a sub-treasury system in return, farmers could claim treasury notes for up to 80% of the local market value of crop.
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Populist Party
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Worked to unite black and white farmers.
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Greenback-labor Party
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In favor of paper money.
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Industrial Black Friday
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Stocks plunged and a major panic struck in 1929. Wall streets worst crash since 1893.
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Panic of 1893
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Major stock market crash. Banks cut back in loans causing business to also crash.
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