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| In elections, winning the highest number of votes of all candidates, but less than half of all |
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| 1890 legislation which raised tax rates to an all-time high. |
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| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
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| According to some interpreters, an allegory relating to the gold standard and financial issues. |
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| Supreme Court decision which upheld the right of states to regulate private property “devoted |
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| 1890 manifesto released by the National Farmers Alliance, reflecting their deep distrust of |
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| Social organization, first formed by Oliver Hudson Kelley in 1867; commonly called the |
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| Political movement which supports the rights and powers of the common people in opposition |
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| In elections, receiving more than half of all votes cast. |
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| "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" |
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| Phrase, applied to the Democratic Party during the election of 1884, which helped elect |
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| 1878 legislation which committed the U.S. government to silver coinage. |
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| Leader and organizer of the 1894 “Tramp’s March on Washington.” |
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| Nebraska congressman, called the Great Commoner” and selected as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1896. |
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| Outspoken critic of Southern violence and Jim Crow laws, and an organizer of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896. |
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| Alliance organizer, known as the “Kansas Pythoness” for her biting attacks on big business. |
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| Acquisition of control over the government and the economy of another nation, usually by conquest. |
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| Founder of Tuskegee Institute and author of the 1895 “Atlanta Compromise” who preached accommodation to the racial caste system of the South. |
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| Location of Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Mill and site of a violent labor battle in 1892. |
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| Location of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ “discovery” of the New World. |
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| Theories of warfare and trade that rely on a nations’ military as a principal instrument of policy. |
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| Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
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| Repealed by Grover Cleveland in 1894 in an attempt to restore business confidence. |
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| Admiral in the United States Navy who wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History." |
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| Supplement to the Monroe Doctrine that committed the United States to an exercise of international police power in Latin America. |
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| Recognized Congressional authority to establish an inferior status for Puerto Rico. |
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| Commander of the Rough Riders and military governor of Cuba. |
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| Compromise between the United States and Japan which limited Japanese immigration. |
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| French agent of the Panama Canal Company who assisted Theodore Roosevelt in fomenting a Panamanian revolt against Colombia and gaining concessions for the United States. |
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| U.S. attempt to maintain the opportunity to share in the commercial exploitation of China. |
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| Leader of the Philippine Insurrection against U.S. occupation. |
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| Document which restricted Cuban independence and assured its subservience to the U.S. |
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| First governor general of the U.S. occupied Philippines. |
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