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Politics and Expansion in an Industrial Age

Politics and Expansion in an Industrial Age. Chapter 20. Guiding Questions. 1.) What were the issues and the political spoils that Democrats and Republicans fought over? 2.) What caused the rise of the Grange, Farmers’ Alliances, and the Populist Party?

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Politics and Expansion in an Industrial Age

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  1. Politics and Expansion in an Industrial Age Chapter 20

  2. Guiding Questions 1.) What were the issues and the political spoils that Democrats and Republicans fought over? 2.) What caused the rise of the Grange, Farmers’ Alliances, and the Populist Party? 3.) What was at stake in the election of 1896 and what was its outcome? 4.) Why did the United States go to war with Spain in 1898 and what resulted from the American victory?

  3. Politics Party Politics Republican Views Democratic Views Tariffs The money supply The role of local and state governments

  4. Politics Voter Turnout From where did each party gain its support? The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Hayes restores confidence in the White House Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

  5. Politics Regulating the money supply Gold VS Silver Farmers and the money supply The Greenback Party The Sherman Silver Purchase Act James B. Weaver, 1880 Presidential nominee of the Greenback Party.

  6. Politics The Spoils System James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur Garfield’s assassination The Pendleton Act The Civil Service Commission

  7. Politics The Election of 1884 James Blaine Grover Cleveland Tariffs Pensions

  8. Politics The Election of 1888 Benjamin Harrison The McKinley Tariff The GAR Civil War Pension

  9. Farmers The Grange Movement The Patrons of Husbandry The Grange Oliver H. Kelley Grange Laws The Wabash Case (1886) The Interstate Commerce Act

  10. Farmers The Alliance Movement The Farmer’s Alliance Graduated Income Tax “Free Silver” The People’s Party

  11. African Americans African Americans after Reconstruction Black Codes The Convict Lease System Lynching Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)

  12. African Americans Booker T. Washington The Tuskegee Institute Economic Goals Accepting Second Class Citizenship

  13. Politics The Election of 1892 Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison James Weaver The Panic of 1893

  14. Economic Depression The Depression (1893-1897) Unemployment The Populists Jacob Coxey’s march on Washington (monetary expert)

  15. The Depression Years Cleveland’s response to the Depression Cleveland’s use of force The Gold Standard The Sherman Silver Purchase Act “Gold Bugs” “Silverites”

  16. Politics 1894: Republicans regain control in Congress The Election of 1896 The Silver Question William Jennings Bryan William McKinley

  17. Politics Bryan’s Cross of Gold Speech McKinley’s “Front Porch Campaign” Republican Dominance The disintegration of the Populist Party

  18. Expansion Overseas Markets The Influence of Sea Power Upon History Alfred T. Mahan Establishing Colonies Josiah Strong Our Country (1885)

  19. Expansion Hawaii Queen Liliuokalani Sugarcane Potential Naval Base William McKinley (1898)

  20. Expansion Cuba American Interests Cuban Rebellions Yellow Journalism The New York Journal (owned by William Randolph Hearst) New York World (owned by Joseph Pulitzer)

  21. The Spanish-American War Enrique Dupuy de Lome (the Spanish ambassador to the United States) The de Lome Letter “weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd.” The Maine

  22. The Spanish-American War Congress Responds with War Preparations “Remember the Maine” On April 19, 1898, Congress demanded that Spain withdraw from Cuba. On April 24 McKinley declared war on Spain.

  23. The Spanish American War the annexation of Hawaii the capture of Manila Harbor in the Philippines (naval base) US Commodore George Dewey The Anti-Imperialists McKinley’s response to the Anti-Imperialists (Social Darwinism)

  24. The Spanish American War Theodore Roosevelt The Rough Riders A new American hero Treaty of Paris (1898) Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and control of Cuba

  25. The Spanish American War Guerilla Fighters in the Philippines The United States Supreme Court ruled in several cases (collectively known as the Insular Cases) that the Constitution does not follow the flag so subject peoples did not have the same rights as citizens of the United States. The perception of the United States among subject peoples therefore changed from a champion of liberty to a colonial power.

  26. US involvement in Latin America increased after the Spanish American War. The Platt Amendment to the Cuban Constitution brought about an extended American supervision over Cuban affairs and the right to lease a military base at Guantanamo Bay.

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