Upload
simone
View
80
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Citation preview
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
Coxey’s Army, 1894
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
Eugene Debs and the Pullman Strike
The Pullman Community
Eugene Debs
Election of 1896
The Wizard of Oz and the Election of 1896
The Segregate
d South
Failure of the New South
Atlanta Editor Henry Grady
The law of Segregation
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
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 1917Only 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 ArgumentManifest
Destiny
Economic Opportunity
Ideas of racial superiority
Alfred Thayer MahanThe 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 ParisSigned 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
“Map of the China Seas ... Under the National Flags, 1898”
The Filipino Insurrection
Emilio Aguinaldo
Citizens or Subjects?
Imperialists
Untapped Chinese market was the future
Believed in the duty to civilize island peoples
Anti-Imperialist League: Attracted a broad coalition of Progressives, politicians, laborers, writers, and activists
Yes, as near as I can make out the Constitution follows the flag---but doesn’t quite catch up with it.
Imperialist Cartoon or Anti-Imperialist Cartoon?
Imperialist Cartoon or Anti-Imperialist Cartoon?