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Chapter Nineteen:
From Stalemate to Crisis
Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 4/e
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The Politics of Equilibrium The Party System
Stability and Stalemate High Turnout Cultural Basis of Party Loyalty
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The Politics of Equilibrium The National Government
Weak Federal Government
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The Politics of Equilibrium Presidents and Patronage
Stalwarts and Half-Breeds
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President and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes (Library of Congress)
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The Politics of Equilibrium Presidents and Patronage
Stalwarts and Half-Breeds Garfield Assassinated
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“I am a Stalwart and Arthur is President!”
- Charles Guiteau
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The Politics of Equilibrium Presidents and Patronage
Stalwarts and Half-Breeds Garfield Assassinated Pendleton Act
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The Politics of Equilibrium Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff
Cleveland Elected
Grover Cleveland (Library of Congress)
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The Politics of Equilibrium Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff
Cleveland Elected Election of 1888
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The Politics of Equilibrium New Public Issues
Sherman Antitrust Act Tariff Rates Raised Interstate Commerce
Act
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The State, War, and Navy Building, Washington DC
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The Agrarian Revolt The Grangers
National Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry
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The Agrarian Revolt The Alliances
Social Goals of the Farmers’ Alliances
“Raise less corn and more hell!”
Mary Lease
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The Agrarian Revolt The Alliances
Social Goals of the Farmers’ Alliances People’s Party Established
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The Agrarian Revolt The Populist Constituency
Populism’s Limited Appeal
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The Agrarian Revolt Populist Ideas
The Populists’ Reform Platform
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The Crisis of the 1890s The Panic of 1893
America’s Interconnected Economy Homestead and Pullman Strikes
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The Crisis of the 1890s The Silver Question
“Bimetallism” “Free Silver” Sherman Silver Purchase Act Repealed
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The Crisis of the 1890s “A Cross of Gold”
McKinley Nominated
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William McKinley (Library of Congress)
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The Crisis of the 1890s “A Cross of Gold”
McKinley Nominated “Cross of Gold” Speech
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“You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!”
- William Jennings
Bryan
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The Crisis of the 1890s “A Cross of Gold”
McKinley Nominated “Cross of Gold” Speech “Fusion”
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“A Cross of Gold” The Conservative Victory
Emergence of
Modern Campaigning Demise of the People’s Party
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Election of 1896
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“A Cross of Gold” McKinley and Prosperity
Gold Standard Act
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Debating the Past:
Populism
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