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

2. The Populist Challenge

3. The Farmer’s Alliances and the People’s Party

4. Populist Organization
James “Cyclone” Davis
Thomas Watson

5. The Populists and Electoral Politics

6. 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

7. Eugene Debs and the Pullman Strike
The Pullman Community
Eugene Debs

8. Election of 1896

9. The Wizard of Oz and the Election of 1896

10. The Segregated South

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

12. The law of Segregation

13. 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,

14. 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

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

16. Nativism

17. Emergence of Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute

18. The Rise of the AFL
Samuel Gompers

19. The Women’s Era

20. 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.

21. Becoming a World Power

22. The New Imperialism

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

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

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

27. The Spanish-American War, The Pacific Theatre

28. The Spanish-American War, Caribbean Theatre

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

30. 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)

31. 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

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

33. Citizens or Subjects?

34. 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

35. Imperialist Cartoon or Anti-Imperialist Cartoon?

36. Imperialist Cartoon or Anti-Imperialist Cartoon?