Chapter 20: Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age

chapter 20: Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age (ch 22.1: Defining America’s World Role, 1902-1914) APUSH - Cornwell Readings: Wed, Jan 21 Mon Jan 26  Gilded Age Politics • TBA  pp. 609-615 Tues Jan 27  Populism Thurs Jan 22  Multiple Choice Exam (609-629)  pp. 615-629 Wed Jan 28 Fri Jan 23  2007 DBQ in Class (question at the end of this  Populism document)  Readings Quiz over 615-629  Notecards due  Short Answer/Focus Questions due Sat and Sun Jan 24, 25  Populism Readings and questions

Identifications: These items come from 609-629 14. Coxey's army 1. Greenback party 15. Panic of 1893 and Depression of 1893-1897 2. Bland-Allison Act 16. free silver 3. Sherman Silver Purchase Act 17. William Jennings Bryan 4. James G. Blaine 18. Mark Hanna and the "front-porch campaign 5. the Half-Breeds and the Stalwarts 19. The Grange 6. Pendleton Act 20. Grover Cleveland – presidential issues 7. "Billion-Dollar Congress" 21. Tom Watson, Ignatius Donnelly, Jerry 8. the farmers' alliance movement Simpson, Mary Elilzabeth Lease 9. Populist party – Populist platform 22. James B. Weaver 10. convict-lease system 23. McKinley Tariff 11. Civil Rights Cases (1883) 24. Election of 1896 – Significance 12. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 25. Currency Act of 1900 13. Munn v. Illinois (1877)

Short Answer/Focus questions: 1. How did the Democratic and Republican parties build coalitions of loyal followers out of their diverse ethnic and regional constituencies? 2. How did environmental factors influence the rise of the Grange and the Farmers’ Alliance movements? 3. Why was the election of 1896 a watershed event? Why did William Jennings Bryan fail to win the presidency?

Essays: 1. In what sense were late nineteenth-century politics an exuberant affair? Discuss the factors that shaped American politics in this period. How did politics function? Who voted for whom? What determined those voting patterns? How did economic conditions lead to a basic political realignment?

2. The late-nineteenth-century American money supply can appear to be a very tangled web indeed. Try to untangle it. What was the purpose of expanding or contracting the supply? What difference did it make whether the federal government issued paper money, gold, or silver? Who supported each position, and why? Explain how the "money question" was both an economic and a political problem.

2007 DBQ: ANALYZE THE WAYS IN WHICH TECHNOLOGY, GOVERNMENT POLICY, AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS CHANGED AMERICAN AGRICULTURE IN THE PERIOD 1865-1900. IN YOUR ANSWER BE SURE TO EVALUATE FARMERS’ RESPONSES TO THESE CHANGES.