Chapter 20 - Commonwealth and Empire, 1870-1900
Toward a National Governing Class
Growth of Government
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Cities
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National
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Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
Political Machines
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Republicans/Democrats
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Tariff
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Political Parties/Candidates
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Political Machines
James Garfield
Spoils System
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Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
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“Insiders” controlling Government
Farmers and Workers Organize their Communities
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The Grange
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Grange Movement
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Complaints
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Enterprises
The Farmers Alliance
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Southern Farmers
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Large Northern/Western Farmers
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Grange Legislation
Workers
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Urban Workers
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Railroad Industry
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Great Uprising of 1877
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Labor Movements
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Tammany Hall
Women Build Alliances
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Women in
Unions
Farmers Organizations
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Frances E. Williard
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
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National Woman’s Alliance
Farmer Labor Unity
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Farmers’ Alliance’s Goals
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Populists and Grover Cleveland
Crisis of the 1890’s
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Financial Collapse of Railroads
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Depression
Strikes/Labor Solidarity
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Wage Cuts for Miners
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Steel Unions
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Pullman Town
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Eugene V. Debs
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Pullman Strike
Social Gospel
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Restoring Christianity
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Women
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Environment
Politics of Reform/Politics of Order
Soft/Hard Money
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Political Platform
Populism’s Last Campaign
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Election of 1896
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William Jennings Bryan
Republican Triumph
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William McKinley
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Reasons for victory
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End of Populism
Limits of Democracy
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Anti-Immigration
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White Supremacy/Violence
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Restrictions on African American Voting Rights
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Racial Violence
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Ida B. Wells
Tom Watson
Imperialism of Righteousness
The White Man’s Burden
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The Chicago World’s Fair
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Celebration of Industry
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Spreading “American Ideals”
Foreign Missions
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Goals of Missions
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Participants in Missions
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Successes of Missions
An Overseas Empire
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Business/Political Influence Overseas
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Historical Beliefs Plans for Western Hemisphere
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Good Neighbor Policy
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Annexation of Hawaii
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Overthrow of Monarchy
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Open Door Policy
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Nationalist Rebellion
The Spanish American War
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Cuba
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McKinley
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USS Maine
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Yellow Journalism
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Spain’s Surrender
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War in the Philippines
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Filipino Rebels