US Book 2 Ch. 11 - 15
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What were shut down because of the low money? | railroads, mines, factories, companies |
| What law did congress pass? | a high tariff law |
| What did the law do? | helped business trusts, kept foreign competitors out of the country |
| Who is Jacob Coxey? | farmer, Christian, reformer, thought government should help people find jobs, arrested |
| What happened because of the Pullman Company, and what did it do? | company cut wages, violence, deaths, arrests, huge strike |
| What did President Cleveland do? | led nation back to gold standard |
| What happened to the nation and who helped it? | gold reserves went down, nation was going bankrupt, J.P. Morgan lent money, nation recovered |
| Who is William Jennings Bryan? | great speaker, farmer, protestant, lawyer, congressman, democrat, nominated for president by the democratic party |
| What did William McKinley support? | supported gold standard, supported high tariffs |
| What is agrarian? | farm centered |
| What were clothes made for? | soldiers uniforms, civilians |
| Who is Montgomery Ward? | decided to sell merchandise through mail, made catalogue, companies copied him |
| Who is Alexander Hamilton? | foresaw industrial america, knew what Lincoln wanted |
| What did cities have? | music, shopping, jobs, quick to find a job, entertainment |
| What were the populists ideas? | bi-metal system (silver standard), political rights, direct election of senators, a secret ballot, high tariffs, silver, child labor laws (8 hours a day), income tax, liberal |
| What did the populists want with the direct election of the senators and secret ballots? | they wanted tolet the people have a direct say in who was elected, they wanted privacy and secrecy with no force to vote |
| What are facts about Bryan vs. McKinley? | Bryan thought it was un-American to go colonized, McKinley supported high tariffs, gold standard, and he was a conservative |
| What are facts about Bryan vs. Roosevelt? | Roosevelt was a progressive, agreed more with Bryan than McKinley, Roosevelt disagreed on foreign policy with McKinley |
| What was it about the environmental issues? | they were not thought about, people thought they could just keep getting things and not run out |
| What did catalogues do? | easier to buy things, made people feel less isolated, people across the country in California could buy things from New York |
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