How did the role and responsibilities of the federal government change during the Progressive Era and the New Deal?
Politics and Foreign Relations in a Rapidly Changing Nation,
1865-1902
Chapter 18
Parties, Spoils, Scandals, and Stalemate, 1865-1880
- Parties, Conventions, and Patronage
- Political Parties dominated the political process in this era
- Democrats & Republicans had similar organizations and purposes
- Party conventions
- Party platforms
- Republicans and Democrats
- Republicans: patriotism and prosperity
- Democrats: explained what they opposed
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- Grant’s Troubled Presidency
- Credit Mobilier and Whiskey Ring
- The Politics of Stalemate, 1876-1889
- Contested 1876 election
- Harrison and the Fifty-first Congress
- Republican control
Parties, Spoils, Scandals, and Stalemate, 1865-1880
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Challenges to Politics as Usual
- Grangers, Greenbackers, and Silverites
- Farmers joined organizations for relief
- The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)
- Greenbackers
- Silverites
- Reforming the Spoils System
- Pendleton Act of 1883
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- Challenging the Male Bastion: Woman Suffrage
- The struggle for woman suffrage was long standing
- Women increasingly participated in public affairs prior to the Civil War
- NWSA and AWSA
- Structural Change and Policy Change
- reformers
Challenges to Politics as Usual
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Political Upheaval in the 1890s
- The People’s Party: Revolt of the West and South
- Farmers’ Alliances
- Women took a prominent role in campaigning
- The Elections of 1890 and 1892
- Democrats chose Cleveland
- Populists strong in West and South
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- Failure of the Divided Democrats
- Silver coinage
- Role in depression
- The 1896 Election and the New Republican Majority
- McKinley vs. Bryan
- Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech
Political Upheaval in the 1890s
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Standing Aside from World Affairs, 1865-1889
- Alaska, Canada, and the Alabama Claims
- Secretary of State Seward
- The United States and Latin America
- Canal
- Eastern Asia and the Pacific
- Strong commercial interest
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Stepping into World Affairs: Harrison and Cleveland, 1889-1897
- Building a Modern Navy
- Alfred Thayer Mayan’s The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
- A New American Mission?
- Josiah Strong
- “Progress” and Social Darwinism merged with a belief in Anglo-American superiority
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- Revolution in Hawai’i
- McKinley Tariff (1890)
- Queen Liliuokalani
- Sugar planters
- Crisis in Latin America
- Chile
- Venezuelan boundary dispute (1895-1896)
- Yellow journalism
Stepping into World Affairs: Harrison and Cleveland, 1889-1897
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Striding Boldly in World Affairs: McKinley, War, and Imperialism, 1898-1902
- McKinley and War
- “Remember the Maine”
- Teller Amendment
- The “Splendid Little War”
- 1st engagement occurred in Philippines
- Spanish-American War
- The Treaty of Paris
- 1st US treaty that failed to convey citizenship
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- The New American Empire
- Cuba
- Foraker Act
- 1901 Insular Cases
- The Open Door and the Boxer Rebellion in China
- Commercial markets in Asia
Striding Boldly in World Affairs: McKinley, War, and Imperialism, 1898-1902
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