James L. Roark ● Michael P. Johnson Patricia Cline Cohen ● Sarah Stage Susan M. Hartmann CHAPTER 20 Dissent, Depression, and War, The American Promise: A Concise History, Fifth Edition Understanding the American Promise, Second Edition Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin's
I. The Farmers’ Revolt A. The Farmers’ Alliance 1. Confronting economic challenges 2. Organizing politically 3. Reaching African Americans 4. Alliance meetings 5. Farmers’ cooperatives
I. The Farmers’ Revolt B. The Populist Movement 1. The People’s Party 2. Subtreasury 3. Land Reform 4. Empowering the common people
II. The Labor Wars A. The Homestead Lockout 1. Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers 2. Fort Frick 3. The lockout and the violence 4. Public backlash 5. Bitter defeat
II. The Labor Wars B. The Cripple Creek Miners’ Strike of Depression leads to a strike at the mines 2. Populist support
II. The Labor Wars C. Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike 1. The model town: Pullman 2. Wage cuts 3. Worker revolt 4. A nationwide boycott 5. Manipulating the press 6. The government breaks the strike
III. Women’s Activism A. Frances Willard and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 1. Temperance politics 2. Willard’s tactics 3. Mobilizing women around a women’s issue B. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Woman Suffrage 1. Division and reconciliation 2. New era for women’s rights movement
IV. Depression Politics A. Coxey’s Army 1. Unemployed march to Washington 2. Plight of the unemployed
IV. Depression Politics B. The People’s Party and the Election of Threat to party unity 2. Cries for reform 3. Nominating Bryan 4. A fierce election 5. Sectional divisions 6. Populist agenda
V. The United States and the World A. Markets and Missionaries 1. Economy and expansion 2. Religious zeal 3. The Boxer Rebellion
V. The United States and the World B. The Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door Policy 1. Protecting American hegemony 2. American business in Central America 3. The U.S. in the Far East 4. An open door to China
V. The United States and the World C. “A Splendid Little War” 1. The Cuban rebellion 2. Yellow journalism 3. Economic and territorial Interests 4. The Maine 5. A brief war in Cuba 6. Roosevelt’s Rough Riders
V. The United States and the World D. The Debate over American Imperialism 1. The American empire 2. The fate of Cuba 3. The Treaty of Paris and war in the Philippines 4. The politics of imperialism