Presidents, Politics and Policy at the Turn of the Century

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Presidents, Politics and Policy at the Turn of
the Century

• Chps. 19-20

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Chapter Nineteen From Stalemate to Crisis

• The Politics of Equilibrium
• The Party System
• Electoral Stability
• High Turnout
• Cultural Basis of Party Identification
• The National Government
• Civil War Pension System

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Chapter Nineteen From Stalemate to Crisis

• The Politics of Equilibrium
• Presidents and Patronage
• Stalwarts and Half-Breeds
• Garfield Assassinated
• Pendleton Act

President and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes (Library
of Congress)
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Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) (1893-1897) D
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Chapter Nineteen From Stalemate to Crisis

• The Politics of Equilibrium
• New Public Issues
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Interstate Commerce
• Act

The State, War, and Navy Building, Washington DC
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New Faces In Politics

• Populist Party
• Farmers Alliances
• Mary Lease
• free silver
• Sherman Sliver Purchase Act
• Crime of 73
• Panic of 1893
• Coxeys Army
• James B. Weaver

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Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) R
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Benjamin Harrison (cont)

• Proposed Annexation of Hawaii
• King Kamehameha
• William Hooper
• G.P.Judd
• Queen Liliuokalani
• Pago Pago
• billion-dollar Congress
• McKinley Tariff

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Queen Lydia Liliuokalani
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Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) D2nd Term
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Grover Cleveland

• Pan-American Congress
• Wilson-Gorman Tariff
• Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act

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From Stalemate to Crisis

• A Cross of Gold
• The Emergence of William Jennings Bryan
• Cross of Gold Speech

William McKinley (Library of Congress)
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From Stalemate to Crisis

• A Cross of Gold
• The Conservative Victory
• Birth of Modern Campaigning
• End of the Peoples Party

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Election of 1896
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William McKinley (1897-1901) R
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The New Manifest Destiny
Imperialism at High Tide, 1900
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Intellectual Justification for Imperialism

• Increasing Importance of Trade
• Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Hemispheric Hegemony
• Venezuelan Dispute

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Wealth of the Sugar Plantations
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Spanish American War

• New Manifest Destiny
• Spanish-American War
• Wilson-Gorman Tariff
• William Randolph Hearst Joseph Pulitzer
• Remember the Maine

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The Battle for Cuba

• San-Juan Hill
• The Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders (Library
of Congress)
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Patterns of Popular Culture Yellow Journalism
The Yellow Dugan Kid (Library of Congress)
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Problems associated with the Spanish-American War

• A Splendid Little War
• Supply and Mobilization Problems

The Spanish-American War in Cuba, 1898.
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The terms of peace

• Treaty of Paris
• Annexation of Philippines, Guam Puerto Rico
• Foraker Act
• Jones Act
• Anti-Imperialist League
• Cuba
• Platt Amendment 1901

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Treaty of Paris

• Results of the War with Spain
• Puerto Rico and the United States
• Annexation of Puerto Rico
• Sugar Economy

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Chapter Twenty The Imperial Republic

• The Republic as Empire
• The Philippine War
• Emilio Aguinaldo

Filipino Prisoners (Library of Congress)
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The Republic as Empire

• The Open Door
• Hays Open Door Notes
• Boxer Rebellion

The American South Pacific Empire, 1900.
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Leon Czolgosz
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Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)