Chapter 6, Section 4 Flashcards
(38 cards)
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) approach (state by state or federal)
state-by-state
How many states granted women’s suffrage by 1901?
4 western states
Who broke away from NAWSA to form NWA?
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns
National Women’s Association (NWA) approach (federal or state-by-state)
Federal- wanted constitutional amendment
What were some of the NWA’s tactics?
-used radical tactics
-arrested, hunger strikes
What did the 19th amendment do?
granted women the right to vote
Why did WW1 help with the suffrage movement?
Women helped and supported the war effort
What was the Brownsville Incident of 1906?
There was a lot of tension between black soldiers at Fort Brown and white citizens. On August 13th gunshots killed a white bartender and wounded a Hispanic police officer. The residents immediately blame black soldiers. All of the white commanders said soldiers were all at barracks. The (white) residents provided “evidence” of spent bullet shells. The soldiers were pressured to name who fired the shots. The 12 soldiers were investigated but no charges were brought. However, the residents still complained
What was Roosevelt’s dark mark of his presidency?
He ordered all 167 soldiers dishonorably discharged
What happened when the soldiers were dishonorably discharged?
lost pensions, could not work in military or civil service positions
When was the Brownsville Incident of 1906 reinvestigated?
1970
What/when was the verdict of the second investigation?
1972- the soldiers were innocent
Who was the president in 1970-72?
Richard Nixon
How did Nixon react to the new verdict in ‘72?
The soldiers were given pardons, and the only survivor was given a $25,000 as compensation
Woodrow Wilson: racist or very racist?
very racist
What did Wilson allow to happen for the first time in Washington D.C.?
segregation
What federal law did he oppose?
anti-lynching law (show be left to the states)
What did Wilson illegalize?
black and white marriage
When and why did progressivism end?
1914-> the start of WW1, because more people were concerned about the war than anything else
3 candidates in the election of 1908
Eugene Debs (s)
William Taft (R)
William Jennings Bryan
Who was William Taft?
an unwilling candidate who was hand picked to be TR’s replacement (wanted to be a supreme court justice)
4 accomplishments of Taft’s presidency
-16th Amendment
-2 new states (AZ and NM)
-reputation as a trustbuster
-17th Amendment
3 reasons why Taft lost the support of Republicans
-signed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff
-supported Richard Ballinger over Gifford Pinchot
- backed Joseph Cannon
What was the Payne-Aldrich Tariff
tariff supposed to lower tariff but actually raised it after it had so many revisions. Taft signed it anyway. Progressives angry because they saw the tariff as a way to lower prices of consumer goods.
