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?