Unit 2: Freedom's Boundaries flashcards

Disenfranchisement

the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote

Gold Standard

system by which the value of a currency was defined in terms of gold, for which the currency could be exchanged.

Protective Tariff

a tax on imported goods designed to make foreign products more expensive and less competitive.

Bimetallism

 a monetary system where the nation's currency was backed by, and convertible to, both gold and silver at a fixed ratio.

Cooperative

an association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic needs through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.

Populism

political program or movement that champions, or claims to champion, the common person, usually by favourable contrast with a real or perceived elite or establishment.

Lynching

 informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate others.

Convict Leasing

system of forced penal labor where private individuals and corporations could lease labor from the state in the form of prisoners.

“Jim Crow”

name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s.

Sharecropping

a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

Nationalism

ideology based on the premise that the individual’s loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass other individual or group interests.

“Yellow Peril”

racist color metaphor that depicts the peoples of East and Southeast Asia as an existential danger to the Western world.

Jus Soli

Latin for “right of the soil”; principle of nationality where citizenship is granted to a person based on their birthplace rather than their parents' lineage.

Sovereignty

the authority of a state to govern itself or another state

Imperialism

state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.

Protectorate

a state that is controlled and protected by another

Annexation

possession taken of a piece of land or a country, usually by force or without permission.

The Southern Farmers’ Alliance was the first organization to propose the idea of

a subtreasury system to store crops in taxpayer-funded government warehouses

The Omaha Platform proposed all the following ideas except

equal tax rates for all wage earners

Ignatius Donnelly, the author of the preamble to the Omaha Platform, inspired Populist voters with his

dramatic imagery of a nation divided between rich and poor

Those who favored free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 silver dollars to one gold dollar argued it would

inflate money and raise prices for goods

In the 1896 election, the Democratic Party effectively neutralized the Populist challenge to the traditional two-party system by

nominating pro-silver politician William Jennings Bryan for president

The People’s (or Populist) Party was most successful in what region of the United States?

The West

The 1890s political label “silverite” refers to a person who

supported a 16-to-1 ratio of silver to gold as currency

Resolution 4 in the excerpt ( Ignatus Donnelly and the 1892 populist platform) has most in common with what other political movement?

Know Nothings of the 1850s

What was a major impetus for the social and political movement that inspired the excerpt?

Unlimited immigration to the United States by southern and eastern Europeans

Several ideas for reform expressed by the Populist Party were

later incorporated into U.S. policy as constitutional amendments or laws

James Weaver

William Jennings Bryan

William McKinley

Henry Grady

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du bois

Ida B. Wells

People’s Pary (populists)

convict lease system

paper sons/daughters