From 1880-1906‚ western farmers were affected by multiple issues that they saw as threats to their way of life. The main threats to the farmers were railroads‚ trusts‚ and the government‚ because these institutions all had the power to drastically affect the ability of the farmers to make profits. Therefore‚ the farmers were not wrong to feel frustration toward those institutions when the institutions caused the farmers to live lives of increasingly extreme poverty. The main source of agrarian
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MATTERS NOW •Oliver Hudson Kelley •Grange •Farmers’ Alliances •Populism Many of the Populist reform issues‚ such as income tax and legally protected rights of workers‚ are now taken for granted. •bimetallism •gold standard •William McKinley •William Jennings Bryan One American’s Story As a young adult in the early 1870s‚ Mary Elizabeth Lease left home to teach school on the Kansas plains. After marrying farmer Charles Lease‚ she joined the growing Farmers’ Alliance movement
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Theodore Roosevelt And the Rise of America to World Power By Howard K. Beale Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power was published by John Hopkins University Press in 1956. Beale’s books emphasized and interpreted economic factors during the Reconstruction Era. His scholarly works gained the term “the Beale Thesis”‚ which was based upon Beale’s theory that Reconstruction was the effort of big business to seek control over the federal government for their own gain by eliminating
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The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution The Clash of Cultures on the Plains The West‚ after the Civil War‚ was still largely untamed. It was inhabited by Indians‚ buffalo‚ coyotes‚ Mexicans‚ and Mormons. The American Indians found themselves caught in between their own traditions and the westward-pushing white man. Indians fought one another as with the Comanche over the Apache‚ the Chippewa over the Cheyenne‚ and the Sioux over the Crow‚ Kiowa‚ and Pawnee
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York‚ 1972 L E. Cobbs Hoffman‚ and J. Gjerde‚ Major Problems in American History. Vol. II Since 1865; Boston‚ Houghton Mifflin Co.‚ 2002 M T. Mahan‚ Lessons of war with Spain; London‚ Sampson Low‚ Marston & Co. Ltd.‚ 1899 J C. S. Olcott‚ Life of McKinley – Vol. II; Boston‚ Houghton Mifflin Co.‚ 1916 J G. Brown Tindall and D. E. Shi‚ America: A Narrative History – Sixth edition; New York‚ W.W. Norton & Co.‚ 2004 -----------------------
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The so-called "Indian Wars" took place roughly from 1864-1890 (from the Sand Creek Massacre to the Battle of Wounded Knee). It was really less of a war than a long series of skirmishes‚ battles‚ and massacres. At first‚ the Indians actually had the advantage because their arrows could be fired more rapidly than a muzzle-loading rifle. The invention of the Colt .45 revolver (the six-shooter by Samuel Colt) and Winchester repeating rifle changed this. Notably‚ one-fifth of the U.S. Army out West
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Question 1 The treaty ending the Spanish-American War: Select one: a. said that Spain could keep Guantanamo Bay b. was ratified in the Senate over the protests of William Jennings Bryan c. provided for Hawaiian autonomy d. was opposed by most Democrats and Populists e. provided for Spain to pay to the United States $10‚000 for each American soldier killed in the war Question 2 Alfred Thayer Mayhan wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History Select one: a. False b. True Question
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Introduction The brief Spanish-American War that lasted from April 1898 through to August 1898 was fought over the issue of the liberation of Cuba‚ a Spanish colony that was suffering under the brutality of Spain’s authority. “The war essentially grew out of Cuba’s struggle for independence. Since the early 19th century‚ many Americans had watched with sympathy the series of revolutions that ended Spanish authority throughout the Americas” ‚ yet it was in Cuba where Spain kept their autocracy
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Spain. President William McKinley it was wise to become allies with Cuban rebels who were led by General Garcia. Cuba at the time was under Spanish control and allying with the Cuban rebels seemed to be a powerful foothold for the U.S. General Garcia‚ Cuban rebel leader‚ was isolated in the mountains and nearly impossible to find. The search for the man or men who could handle the task of not only finding Garcia but delivering a personal message from President McKinley. The president was given
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situation in Cuba because William Randolph Hearst’s sensational newspaper accounts of Spanish atrocities in Cuba Even before the sinking of the Maine‚ the American public’s indignation at Spain had been whipped into a frenzy by President McKinley was reluctant to get into a war Even after the Maine exploded‚ the United States did not immediately declare war on Cuba because the leader of Filipino insurgents against Spanish rule Emilio Aguinaldo was The Virgin Islands Which of the
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