APUSH Ch 20 Terms – Flashcards

A term of ridicule used in the 1880s and 1890s to refer to politicians -- especially republicans -- who according to critics, whipped up old animosities from the Civil War era that ought to be set aside.

A term invented in the 1920s describing the late nineteenth century as a period of ostentatious displays of wealth, growing poverty, and government inaction in the face of income inequality.

An 1883 law establishing a nonpartisan Civil Service commission to fill federal jobs by examination.

A late-nineteenth-branch of reform-mined Republicans who left their party in 1884 to support Democratic presidential candidate Grover Cleveland.

Landmark 1890 act that forbade anticompetitive business activities, requiring the federal government to investigate trusts and any companies operating in violation of the act.

Also known as the Federal Elections Bill of 1890, a bill proposing that whenever 100 citizens in any district appealed for intervention, a bipartisan federal board could investigate and seat the rightful winner.

An 1892 statement by the Populists calling for stronger government to protect ordinary Americans.

A policy of loosening the money supply by expanding federal coinage to include silver as well as gold.

an 1898 Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to impose poll taxes and literacy tests.

The post-Reconstruction goal --achieved by the early twentieth century -- of almost complete electoral control of the South by the Democratic Party.

A 1905 Supreme Court ruling that New York State could not limit bakers' workday to ten hours because that violated bakers' rights to make contracts.

A 1902 law, supported by Theodore Roosevelt, that allowed the federal government to sell public lands to raise money for irrigation projects that edxpanded agriculture on arid lands.

greater government intervention in the economy.

voting to remove unpopular politicians from office.

voting directly on a proposed law rather than leaving it in the hands of legislators.

A reform organization that worked (unsuccessfully) to win a federal law banning child labor.

upheld an Oregon law limiting women's workday to ten hours.

A term used by Du Bois for the top 10 percent of educated African Americans, whom he called on to develop new strategies to advocate for civil rights.

An organization founded in 1910 by leading African American reformers and white allies as a vehicle for advocating equal rights for African Americans, especially through the courts.

An umbrella union and radical political group founded in 1905, dedicated to organizing unskilled workers to oppose capitalism.

In a 1910 speech, Theodore Roosevelt called for a "New Nationalism" that promoted government intervention to ehance public welfare, including a federal child labor law, more recognition oof labor rights, a national minimum wage for women, women's suffrage, and curbs on the power of federal courts to stop reform.

The central bank system of the United States, created in 1913. It helps set the money supply level, thus influencing the rate of growth of the U.S. economy, and seeks to ensure the stability of the U.S. monetary system.

A 1914 law that strengthened federa definitions of "monopoly" and gave more power to the Justice Department to pursue antitrust cases.

kansas populist political organizer.

free-silver advocate. passionately defendeed farmers and attacked the gold standard. "Burn down your cities and leave our farms."

republican new york assemblyman. served in the war of 1898. pushed through civil service reform and a tax on corporations. replaced mckinley as president.

promoted the wisconsin idea. combined respect for expertise with commitment to "more democracy". gave wisconsin citizens to right to recall and referendum.

son of jewish immigrants. widely known as the people's lawyer. created the Brandeis brief which cleared the way for use of social science research in court decisions.

called for a talented tenth of educated blacks to develop new strategies. harvard-educated sociologist.

socialist. founded the american railway union.