Us History Quiz 3

Notes from class February 2, 2026

Election 1888 Republican Candidate

Benjamin Harrison; his grandpa was the first president to die in office

Election of 1888 Issues

Tariffs and Reform

Harrison Admin

sherman antitrust act 1890; made monopolies illegal - no one could define a monopoly so that was a problem

Agriculture Post Civil War

farmer problem: following the war there was too much supply and too little demand which led to a decrease in prices

The Grange 1860s

founded by Oliver H. Kelley

for social, political, and economic purposes for famers

helped farmers to know what was going on in congress

what was the Grange replaced by

Regional Alliances

Farmers needed a national organization

1890 meeting in Florida

list of ideas was created

populists

1890 mid term election

populist party candidates did well

there was a republican party, a democratic party, and a populist party

populist party ideas

free coinage of silver, popular election of senator, initiative and recall, 1 term president, secret ballot, shorter work day, income tax, immigration restrictions

1892 election populist

James Weaver

1892 election republican

Benjamin Harrison

1892 election democrat

Grover Cleveland

what did labor need

organization

what were the Knights of Labor

founded by uriah Stephens

1869

all workers into 1 union (skilled and unskilled)

what did industrialization lead to

rise of labor/working class

Knights of Labor demands

8 hour day, equal pay for men and women, no child labor, government regulate trusts, graduated income tax, government own railroads and telegraph lines

Knights of labor did not favor ___ and preferred ____

the use of strikes, boycotts

Jacob Coxey

populist from Ohio

economic panic

people began to panic

Coxey’s goal

walk to DC to get the government assistance

Coxey’s Army

march from Ohio to DC by going town to town and gathering people to walk with them

Coxey Army results

only a few hundred made it to DC

Coxey was arrested for trespassing

imperialism

extending a nation’s power or influence through diplomacy and military action

connection to today for imperialism

Greenland

Pre civil war

US not interested in imperialism

John Louis O’Sullivan

1845, “manifest destiny”

US changed mind about imperialism

1. industrialization needed resources

2. markets needed to produce and sell

3. social darwinism (survival of the fittest)

4. agricultural surplus to sell

5. Frederick J. Turner (historian)

6. Josiah Strong: minister, christian duty to spread the gospel

7. Alfred Mahan: recommended to annex Hawaii, bases in Caribbean, a canal in Central America