Test 2-The gilded age Flashcards
(33 cards)
3 factors that have national politics during the gilded age its distinctive texture
- national political parties were “dominant forces”
- the close division between republicans and democrats in congress
- very high voter turnout
3 types of differences between the parties
- religious
- ethnic
- geographic differences
Republicans
Prohibiting alcohol
Democrats
Irish immigrants
3 factions within the Republican Party
- the stalwarts
- the half breeds
- the mugwumps
Interstate commerce commission was created to
Regulate the railroad
The problem with the tariff was
It fostered big business at the expense of small producers
Who didn’t support for coins of silver to be made available?
Big business
What was hard on farmers?
Property taxes
The farmers alliance
Helped form the populist party
The populist party:
- small farmers and wage labored
- more government intervention
Jim Crow laws were
Laws passed in the south that mandated the seperation of races in public places
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Separate by equal facilities
Booker T Washington: true or false?
False
WEB Dubois: true or false?
False
4 reasons the US expanded its military presence: name the 1 false reason
Communist trying to take over the pacific
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Powerful navy
Queen Liliuokalani:
The sister of the Hawaiian king
She intended to stop the political power that American planters had in the gov
Who was elected president when Hawaii was annexed to the US and it was in 1898?
William McKinley
Yellow Journalism: true or false?
False
The Maine: true or false?
False
Teller amendment
Statement declaring that the US has no intention of annexing Cuba
Battle of Manila Bay: true or false?
True
Rough riders were made up of:
Former Ivy League athletes, ex convicts, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Pawnee,Creek Indians, southwestern sharpshooters, Theodore Roosevelt