Presidents, Politics and Policy at the Turn of the Century Chps

Chapter Nineteen: From Stalemate to Crisis The Politics of Equilibrium The Politics of Equilibrium –The Party System  Electoral Stability  High Turnout  Cultural Basis of Party Identification  The National Government –Civil War Pension System

The Politics of Equilibrium The Politics of Equilibrium –Presidents and Patronage  Stalwarts and Half-Breeds  Garfield Assassinated  Pendleton Act Chapter Nineteen: From Stalemate to Crisis President and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes (Library of Congress)

Grover Cleveland ( ) & ( ) D

The Politics of Equilibrium The Politics of Equilibrium –New Public Issues  Sherman Antitrust Act  Interstate Commerce Act Act Chapter Nineteen: From Stalemate to Crisis The State, War, and Navy Building, Washington DC

New Faces In Politics Populist Party  Farmer’s Alliances –Mary Lease  “free silver”  Sherman Sliver Purchase Act –Crime of ’73 –Panic of 1893  Coxey’s Army  James B. Weaver

Benjamin Harrison ( ) R

Benjamin Harrison (con’t) Proposed Annexation of Hawaii King Kamehameha William Hooper G.P.Judd Queen Liliuokalani Pago Pago “billion-dollar Congress” McKinley Tariff

Queen Lydia Liliuokalani

Grover Cleveland ( ) D 2 nd Term…

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

“A Cross of Gold” “A Cross of Gold” –The Emergence of William Jennings Bryan –Cross of Gold Speech From Stalemate to Crisis William McKinley (Library of Congress)

“A Cross of Gold” “A Cross of Gold” –The Conservative Victory  Birth of Modern Campaigning  End of the People’s Party From Stalemate to Crisis

Election of 1896

William McKinley ( ) R

The New Manifest Destiny Imperialism at High Tide, 1900

Intellectual Justification for Imperialism  Increasing Importance of Trade  Alfred Thayer Mahan  Hemispheric Hegemony –Venezuelan Dispute

Wealth of the Sugar Plantations

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

San-Juan Hill –The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders (Library of Congress) The Battle for Cuba

Patterns of Popular Culture: Yellow Journalism The Yellow Dugan Kid (Library of Congress)

“A Splendid Little War”  Supply and Mobilization Problems Problems associated with the Spanish-American War The Spanish-American War in Cuba, 1898.

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

Results of the War with Spain Results of the War with Spain –Puerto Rico and the United States  Annexation of Puerto Rico  Sugar Economy Treaty of Paris

The Republic as Empire The Republic as Empire –The Philippine War  Emilio Aguinaldo Chapter Twenty: The Imperial Republic Filipino Prisoners (Library of Congress)

–The Open Door  Hay’s “Open Door Notes”  Boxer Rebellion The Republic as Empire The American South Pacific Empire, 1900.

Leon Czolgosz

Theodore Roosevelt ( )