AP U.S. 1/28/14 DBQ Between 1875 and 1900‚ there were organized labor forces popping up left and right‚ and the purpose of all of them was to improve the common workers position. However‚ few of these unions managed to bring much of a positive change. At the time‚ the three most influential labor forces were the Knights of Labor‚ who fell from power before they could bring much change‚ the American Federation of Labor‚ who didn’t fare any better‚ and the Populist party‚ who could be seen as the
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Cooke Roscoe Conkling James G. Blaine Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel Tilden James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur Winfield S. Hancock Charles J. Guiteau Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Thomas Reed William McKinley James B. Weaver Tom Watson Adlai E. Stevenson William Jennings Bryan J. P. Morgan Define and state the historical significance of the following: soft/cheap money hard/sound money contraction resumption Gilded Age spoils system crop-lien system pork-barrel bills populism
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AP US History Mrs. Norris 6th hour Sample DBQ Response to demonstrate document integration Prompt The 1920s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the tension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested The firestorm of the Great War revealed an American society rife with conflict and opposing values. Americans reacted to the legacy of the war with new political doctrines‚ contentious
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nominate Ohio Gov. William McKinley and the Democrats were split between the gold standard and the silverites . The silver Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan and the gold standard Democrats switch sides and went with McKinley. This is the first time that one of the major political parties and defected and joined the other party. With this defection is tilted the scales in McKinley’s favor. The election was close as McKinley received only 51% of the popular vote and Bryan received 47% of the
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the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1890. Both of these acts were passed in Congress to provide free coinage of silver. The reasoning for the silver standard in the Populist platform in 1892 (Document A) was justified by the same reasoning as William Jennings Bryan in his “Cross of Gold” speech. Both describe how the conspiracy that the gold standard is better because England still uses it questions why America became an independent nation. However‚ the farmers still remained defeated on the currency
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In a time when American industrialism was rising‚ and a shift from isolationism to imperialism occurred within American society. It is in this context that industrialization would grow to impact farmers and industrial workers. Two significant ways that farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age by attempting to unionize and forming political parties to further their interests. One significant way that farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization
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people arguing in the other side the people seemed content. The last image describes the rule over Cuba in the left side is rule by Spain and in the right side is rule by America. These series of images show how the world might have been if William Jennings Bryan had instead won the White House on the Democrat ticket with closed factories‚ no railroads‚ plows rusting in the fields‚ a currency based on silver rather than gold‚ and Cuba before the Spanish American War‚ which was won during McKinley’s
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segregating African Americans”. In 1914 well known William Monroe Trotter delivered a stinging protest towards Wilson concerning segregation in federal bureaucracy. However‚ Woodrow reneged on his promise and created a policy of racial segregation in both the Department of the Treasury and the Post Office Department. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) sent a letter of protest to Wilson‚ but their efforts were ignored. William Trotter gathered Afro Americans and went to
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16th Amendment - allowed the government to levy taxes based upon a person’s income. 17th Amendment - gave voters the power to directly elect their senators 18th Amendment - established prohibition in the United States 19th Amendment - granted full voting rights to women Alexander Graham Bell - patented the telephone in 1876 Bessemer process - was a method of steelmaking that burned off impurities in molten iron with a blast of hot air. Carrie Chapman Catt - became the president of NAWSA in
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Indians who thought they’d been given immunity. This was the infamous Sand Creek Massacre (1864). Two years later‚ the Indians struck revenge in the Fetterman Massacre. The Sioux sought to stop the Bozeman Trail to Montana’s gold and killed Capt. William J. Fetterman and his 81 soldiers. These two tic-for-tac massacres set the stage for terrible Indian-white relations and started the Indian wars. Just after Fetterman‚ the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) was made between the federal government and
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