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20 Cards in this Set
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Homestead Strike
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Violent strike at the Carnegie Steel Company that culminated in the defeat of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, 1st steelworker union
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Populist Party
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It advocated a variety of reform issues, including free coinage of silver, income tax, postal savings, regulation of railroads, and direct election of US senators
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Eugene Debs
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Union leader jailed for contempt of court for violating the judicial order. "Lovers of LIberty"
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Pullman Strike
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Strike against Pullman Palace Car Company in IL by the American Railway Union; the strike was crushed by court injunctions and federal troops two months later
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Coxey's Army
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A band of several unemployed men marched to Washington demanding an economic relief
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Federation of trade unions composed mostly of skilled, white, native born workers
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Mckinley Tariff
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Raised tariffs to protect manufacturing
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L. Frank Baum
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Wrote The Wizard of Oz. Somewhat an interpretation on President Mckinley and mining
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Booker T. Washington
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Advocate of Industrial education and economic self help
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Grandfather Clause
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Loophole for illiterate white males whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote in 1867
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Lynching
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Practice widespread in the south which persons (usually black) accused of a crime were murdered by mobs before standing trial.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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US Supreme Court decision supporting the legality of Jim Crow laws that permitted or required "separate but equal" facility for blacks and whites
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Samuel Gompers
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the AFL's president. Embraced the idea of "freedom of contract" and "business unionism"
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Fong Yue Ting
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The court authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law
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Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
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Largest female reform society; it moved from opposing sale of liquor to demanding the right to vote for women
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USS Maine
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Battleship that exploded in Havana Harbor resulting in 266 deaths; the American public, assuming that the Spanish had mined the ship
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Alfred T. Mahan
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Naval officer that argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade
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Philippine War
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American military campaign that suppressed the movement for Philippine independence after the Spanish-American War
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Spanish American War
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Began after the battleship Maine was sunk against Spain. America worked for Cuban independence
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Yellow Press
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A paper that originally blamed Spain for the sinking of the battleship Maine also helped the Spanish American war escalate
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