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Chapter 20
Commonwealth and Empire
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History
11th Grade
12/19/2005

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Interstate Commerce Commission
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first independent regulatory agency-created in 1887

railroads-shift in power from state to fed government
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Pendleton Act 1883
Definition
three person commission to make guidelines for executive and legislative appointments

president assigns commission
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National Farmers Alliance
Definition
Charles W. Macune and William Lamb-regional organizations-became the Populists party-pledged to restore democracy-pissed off farmers
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Great Uprising of 1877
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first nation-wide strike, railroad workers protested wage cuts and U.S. army suppressed strikes
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WCTU
Definition
Women's Christian Temperance Union (largest women's organization in world)

preached abstinence from alcohol, reformed prison system, banned prostitution, and eliminate wage system
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Populists
Definition
supporters of People's Party

want more direct demorcracy, more control
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Samuel Gompers
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head of American Federation of Labor-nationwide unemployment at 3 million
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Coxey's Army
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mass of unemployed people- marched to D.C. to demand public works program
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Homestead
Definition
Pennsylvania- steal workers who went on strike and fought with replacement workers

governor called in National Gaurd
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Pullman Strike
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strike after wages were cut in half, food/rent prices had not changed

members of commitee that listed greivances were fired
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Eugene V. Debs
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formed the American Railway Union to bring all railroads workers into one union- "champion" of Pullman workers

ran for President as socialist in 1900
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Coinage Act of 1873
Definition
eliminate silver from circulation to tighten money supply- farmers who depended on credit called it the "crime of '73"
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Social Gospel Movement
Definition
church to lead the way for civil service reform and end of child labor

petitioned to regulate corporations and place limit on profits
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Free Silver
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the unlimited coinage of silver
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William Jennings Bryan
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populist candidate for president 1896

supporter for free silver
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William McKinley
Definition
republican candidate of 1896 (won election)
set a new precedent for presidential campaigns- spent 7 million dollars
as president promoted pro-business and expansionist measures
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Jim Crow
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southern local and state government codefied racist ideology by passing discriminatory segregationist legislation
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Poll Tax and Literacy Test
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southern states enacted this so blacks wouldnt be able to vote
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Ida B. Wells
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young editor of a black newspaper in Memphsis

anti-lynching
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World's Fair
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"displayed" people from foreign lands

agricultural hall- all eyes were on world wide markets for American products
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White Man's Burden
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advocated "imperialism of righteousness"
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