AP US History Ch. 19: End-of-the-century Crisis
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Mugwumps | A faction of the Republican party, concerned mainly with honest and effective government. |
| National American Woman Suffrage Association | A merging of the NWSA and the AWSA to pursue women's rights. |
| Greenback Party | A party dedicated to inflating currency through increasing the number of legal tender paper "greenbacks" first issued during the war. |
| Spoils system | The practice of giving government positions to loyal party workers, regardless of their qualifications. |
| Pendleton Act | Outlawed political contributions by appointed officeholders, and established competitive examinations for federal positions to be given by the Civil Service Commission. Although a step in the right direction, overall a fairly timid act. |
| Munn v. Illinois | Supreme Court rules that when "private property is affected with a public interest it...must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good." |
| Interstate Commerce Commission | The first federal regulatory agency, charged with prohibiting pools, rebates, and rate discrimination. |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | Prohibited any "contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce." |
| Patrons of Husbandry | A national farm organization founded by Oliver Kelley. |
| Grangers | Local farmers' groups that sponsored lectures, dances, and picnics, fulfilling the hunger for social interaction. They soon began addressing the economic grievances of farmers. |
| Initiative | Allowed people to propose legislation through petitions |
| Referendum | Allowed the people to enact a law through popular vote. |
| Populist Party | Made up of mostly small-scale farmers in the South and West, urban laborers, Grangers, and Greenbacks, advocated eight0hour day, immigration restriction, the abolition of the Pinkerton system that supplied strikebreakers to management, "fair and liberal" pensions to veterans, etc. |
| Coxey's Army | A demonstration led by Jacob S. Coxey, marching a 40,000-man-strong army of the unemployed to Washington, D.C. to demand action. |
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