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Freedom’s Boundaries at Home and Abroad, 1890-1900. The Populist Challenge. The Farmer’s Alliances and the People’s Party. Populist Organization. James “Cyclone” Davis. Thomas Watson. The Populists and Electoral Politics. The Government and Labor.
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Populist Organization James “Cyclone” Davis Thomas Watson
The Government and Labor We stand here to-day in behalf of millions of toilers whose petitions have been buried in committee rooms, whose prayers have been unresponded to, and whose opportunities for honest…productive labor have been taken from them by unjust legislation, which protects idlers, speculators, and gamblers Coxey’s Army, 1894
Eugene Debs and the Pullman Strike The Pullman Community Eugene Debs
Failure of the New South Atlanta Editor Henry Grady
The Rise of Lynching States with over 200 lynchings, 1889-1918 http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
Redrawing Freedom’s Boundaries “The South…has its negro, the city has its slums…The friends of American institutions fear the ignorant immigrant, and the workingman dislikes the Chinese.” --Economist Simon Patten
The New Immigration Immigrationto the UnitedStates, 1880–1920
Emergence of Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute
The Rise of the AFL Samuel Gompers
Prohibition, 1904 and 1917 Only three states were dry in 1904, but by1917 over half of the people in the countrylived in either a state or county that had gonedry—momentum that led to nationwideprohibition in 1919.
The Expansionist Argument Alfred Thayer Mahan The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
A beautiful naked white woman standing defiantly before three overly curious Spanish officers (truth is that female matrons performed the search)
The Spanish Brute, 1898 Wartime journalism portrayed the Spanish as bloodthirsty beasts who murdered and mutilated American servicemen.
China There are 4000,000,000 active stomachs in China, and each cries for food three times a day John Hay: Sec. of State that circulated notes that called for an Open Door Policy
The Filipino Insurrection “Map of the China Seas ... Under the National Flags, 1898” Emilio Aguinaldo
Yes, as near as I can make out the Constitution follows the flag---but doesn’t quite catch up with it. Anti-Imperialist League: Attracted a broad coalition of Progressives, politicians, laborers, writers, and activists