Economic Crash and Political Upheaval: 1890 1900

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Economic Crash and Political Upheaval 1890 - 1900

• Chapter 19

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1890-1900
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The Country

• Changing economy
• Changing population
• Role of individual

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Urban Conditions

• Jacob Riis How The Other Half Lives
• Henry George Progress and Poverty
• An inquiry into the cause of industrial
  depressions and of the increase of want with
  increase of wealth...
• Remedy?

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Urban Conditions - Reaction

• Settlement House
• Jane Addams
• Hull House

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Urban Conditions

• Social Gospel
• William Gladden - Applied Christianity
• C.S. Sheldon
• Pope Leo XIII - Rerum Novarum (Of New Things)

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Federal Surplus 1865-1901
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Role of Government?

• Whose money is it?
• Bystander or activist?
• Senator John Sherman

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Nativism

• What is an American?
• Image
• Reality
• Events in Europe
• Fear of radicals
• American Protective Association

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Political Reaction

• Populism
• Grange and Greenback failed
• Farmers Alliance
• Three groups
• Populist Party Peoples party
• James Weaver

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Popular Vote for Weaver 1892
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Economic Problems

• Panic of 1893
• 15,000 business failed
• Why?
• Reaction
• Coxeys Army
• Labor difficulties

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Labor Issues

• Homestead Steel Strike
• American Railway Union

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Recorded Mergers in Mining and Manufacturing
18951905
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Times are Changing

• 1883 - Civil Rights Act of 1875 -
  unconstitutional
• Fourteenth Amendment - only states
• Separate accommodation laws
• Grandfather clause
• Plessy vs. Ferguson - 1896

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Atlanta Compromise

• Booker T. Washington
• "In all things that are purely social we can be
  as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand
  in all things essential to mutual progress."

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Cross of Gold
William Jennings Bryan
Having behind us the producing masses of this
nation and the world, supported by the
commercial interests, the laboring interests and
the toilers everywhere, we will answer their
demand for a gold standard by saying to them
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor
this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify
mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Election of 1896
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1892 versus 1896
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Turner Thesis

• Deeper significance of the frontier - effects of
  this social recapitulation on the American
  character
• People came faster than expected
• 1890 Census frontier gone
• What next?

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

• The Influence of Sea Power upon History
• Great nations - sea powers
• Productive domestic economy
• Foreign commerce
• Strong merchant marine
• Navy defending trade routes
• Colonies and naval bases

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American Acquisitions in the Pacific
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Summary

• Decade of change
• Some positive, some negative
• Realization
• Country was different
• Times were changing
• People needed to act, or did they?