American History Midterm Review

Born into slavery just before emancipation, Worked as a teacher in Memphis, early 1880’s Became editor of a local paper, Viewed lynchings as “an excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized”

• Ida B. Wells
• Carrie Catherine Catt
• Susan B. Anthony
• Florence Kelley

1896 Supreme Court ruled that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment; “Separate but equal” had been established

• Plessy v. Ferguson 
• Jim Crow Laws
• Poll Tax
• Grandfather Clause

Advocate for improving the lives of women and children; Illinois Factory Act in 1983; Prohibited child labor, Limited women’s working hours

• Florence Kelley
• Susan B. Anthoyn
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Carrie Catherine Catt

Leading proponent of the suffrage movement; founded the National Women Suffrage Association, NWSA,

• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Florence Kelley
• Marry Harris Jones

Secretary of War under Roosevelt; hand picked by Roosevelt to be the Republican Presidential nominee; lost election to Woodrow Wilson

• William Howard Taft
• William Jennings Bryan
• Eugene V. Debs
• Upton Sinclair

Democratic presidential nominee; ran against Williams Howard Taft; had run for president twice before. 

• William Jennings Bryan
• William Howard Taft
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson

Democratic presidential nominee; won presidency in 1912; 'New Freedom'; established federal income tax and federal reserve. 

• Woodrow Wilson
• William Howard Taft
• William Jennings Bryan
• Theodore Roosevelt

Strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act; Prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another, if it would create a monopoly; Officers would be prosecuted if they did

• Federal Reserve Act
• Underwood Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Federal Trade Commission Act

Magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900’s

• Socialist
• Muckrackers
• Scientific Management
• Initiative 

To illegally execute without a trial

• Reconstruction
• Lynching
• Poll tax
• Jim Crow Laws