Chap. 19 Notes
The Politics of Equilibrium
Electoral Stability
High Turnout
Cultural Bias of Party Identification
The National Government
Civil War Pension System
Presidents and Patronage
Stalwarts and Half-Breeds
Garfield Assassinated
Pendleton Act
Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff
Election of 1884
New Public Issues
Sherman Antitrust Act
McKinley Tariff
Interstate Commerce Act
The Agrarian Revolt
The Grangers
Origins
Economic Grievances
Political Program
The Farmers’ Alliance
Mary Lease
Birth of the People’s Party
The Populist Constituency
“Free Silver”
“Colored Alliances”
Populist Ideas
Populist Platform
Populism’s Ideological Challenge
The Chautauguas
The Crisis of the 1890s
The Panic of 1893
Overexpansion and Weak Demand
“Coxey’s Army”
The Silver Question
“Crime of ‘73”
Symbolic Importance of the Currency Question
Populism
“A Cross of Gold”
The Emergence of Bryan
William McKinley
“Cross of Gold” Speech
“Fusion”
The Conservative Victory
Birth of Modern Campaigning
End of the People’s Party
McKinley and Recovery
Currency Act
Stirrings of Imperialism
The New Manifest Destiny
Increasing Importance of Trade
Intellectual Justifications for Imperialism
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Imperialism
Hemispheric Hegemony
Venezuelan Dispute
Hawaii and Samoa
Self-Sufficient Societies
Queen Liliuokalani
Yellow Journalism
Acquisition of Samoa
War With Spain
Controversy Over Cuba
Cuban Revolt
The Maine
“A Splendid Little War”
Supply and Mobilization Problems
Seizing the Philippines
The Battle For Cuba
The Rough Riders
Puerto Rico and the United States
Annexation of Puerto Rico
Sugar Economy
The Debate Over the Philippines
The Philippines Question
Anti-Imperialist League
Election of 1900
The Republic As Empire
Governing The Colonies
Platt Amendment
American Economic Dominance
The Philippine War
Emilio Aguinaldo
Growing Economic Dependence
The Open Door
Hay’s “Open Door Notes”
Boxer Rebellion
A Modern Military Strategy
Root’s Military Reforms
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