Idents
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Essay title: Idents
Populist Party- was a political party that flourished among farmers
Women's Christian Suffrage Association- really for prohibition sought right to vote
National Woman Suffrage Association- opposed the Fifteenth Amendment unless it included the vote for women
Frances Willard- President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
National American Women Suffrage- most important suffrage organization in the US untill the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment
Association- a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose
19th Amendment- intended to extend suffrage to women
Farmers Alliance- was an organized agrarian economic movement among farmers
Cooperatives- a buisness owned and controlled by the people who use its services
Homestead Lockout Strike- A strige between strikers and private security agents, was between the AA and Carnegie Steel Company
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers- was a labor union which represented iron and steel workers
Pullman Strike- reaction to a 28% wage cut ended because the used the trains for mail so it was a civil offense
Depression of 1893- the statutory limit for minimum gold in federal reserves was reached and U.S. notes could no longer be successfully redeemed for gold
American Railway Union- was largest union of its time included all railway workers regardless of craft or service
Eugene Victor Debs- was a founder of the Inernational Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World and a socialist Party of America candidate for President
Injunction- a court order requiring a person to do or cease doing a specific action
Freeloaders- when actors consume