Freedom’s Boundaries at Home and Abroad, 1890-1900

The Populist Challenge

The Farmer’s Alliances and the People’s Party

Populist Organization James “Cyclone” Davis Thomas Watson

The Populists and Electoral Politics

The Government and Labor We stand here to-day in behalf of millions of toilers whose petitions have been buried in committee rooms, whose prayers have been unresponded to, and whose opportunities for honest…productive labor have been taken from them by unjust legislation, which protects idlers, speculators, and gamblers Coxey’s Army, 1894

Eugene Debs and the Pullman Strike The Pullman Community Eugene Debs

Election of 1896

The Wizard of Oz and the Election of 1896

The Segregated South

Atlanta Editor Henry Grady Failure of the New South Atlanta Editor Henry Grady

The law of Segregation

States with over 200 lynchings, 1889-1918 The Rise of Lynching State Number of Lynchings Georgia 386 Mississippi 373 Texas 335 Louisiana 313 Alabama 276 Arkansas 214 States with over 200 lynchings, 1889-1918 http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html

Redrawing Freedom’s Boundaries “The South…has its negro, the city has its slums…The friends of American institutions fear the ignorant immigrant, and the workingman dislikes the Chinese.” --Economist Simon Patten

Immigration to the United States, 1880–1920 The New Immigration Immigration to the United States, 1880–1920

Nativism

Emergence of Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute

The Rise of the AFL Samuel Gompers

The Women’s Era

Prohibition, 1904 and 1917 Only three states were dry in 1904, but by 1917 over half of the people in the country lived in either a state or county that had gone dry—momentum that led to nationwide prohibition in 1919.

Becoming a World Power

The New Imperialism

The Expansionist Argument Manifest Destiny Economic Opportunity Ideas of racial superiority Alfred Thayer Mahan The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

Spain and Cuba Timeline 1868 -1878 Ten Years War in Cuba 1895 Cuban Revolution begins 1896 Re-concentration Policy Begins

A beautiful naked white woman standing defiantly before three overly curious Spanish officers (truth is that female matrons performed the search)

The Spanish-American War, The Pacific Theatre

The Spanish-American War, Caribbean Theatre

The Spanish Brute, 1898 Wartime journalism portrayed the Spanish as bloodthirsty beasts who murdered and mutilated American servicemen.

The Treaty of Paris Signed Dec. 10 1898 Spain lost Cuba U.S. got Puerto Rico and Guam For $20 million Spain gave U.S. the Philippines The Platt Amendment (1901)

China There are 4000,000,000 active stomachs in China, and each cries for food three times a day John Hay: Sec. of State that circulated notes that called for an Open Door Policy

The Filipino Insurrection “Map of the China Seas ... Under the National Flags, 1898” Emilio Aguinaldo

Citizens or Subjects?

Imperialists Untapped Chinese market was the future Believed in the duty to civilize island peoples Anti-Imperialists Europe was the most important market Subjugating Filipinos to imperial rule violated American principles Burden of colonies would distract from problems at home Yes, as near as I can make out the Constitution follows the flag---but doesn’t quite catch up with it. Anti-Imperialist League: Attracted a broad coalition of Progressives, politicians, laborers, writers, and activists

Imperialist Cartoon or Anti-Imperialist Cartoon?

Imperialist Cartoon or Anti-Imperialist Cartoon?