Politics 18801892

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Politics 1880-1892

• Corruption
• Richard Croker, Tammany Hall in New York
• Pork

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• Rutherford Hayes President 1876-80
• James Garfield-Republican
• Chester Arthur
• Pendleton Act

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Election of 1884

• Democrat Grover Cleveland

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Election of 1888

• Republican William Henry Harrison Defeats
  Cleveland
• Tariffs Good for Republican Industrialists not so
  much for Democrats
• Cleveland again 1892

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Populism

• More Government Control and Subsides for Farmers
• Graduated Income Tax
• Senators Elected by Popular Vote
• Get off Gold into Silver

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Election of 1896

• Depression of 1893 Hurts Cleveland and Democrats
• Populists and Democrats Unite-William James Bryan

William McKinley Republican
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Progressivism

• Reform Movement
• Both Parties
• Many Different Agendas and Platforms

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• Settlement Houses Jane Addams
• William James Pragmatism
• Eugenics

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Muckrakers

• Uncover Corruption
• McClures, Cosmopolitan, Upton Sinclair

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• Robert La Follette
• Hiram Johnson California

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African Americans and Progressivism

• Jim Crow and Disenfranchisement
• Plessy Vs Ferguson Separate But Equal

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• W.E.B. Dubois NAACP Souls of Black Folk
• Booker T Washington Tuskegee Institute

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Feminism

• Elizabeth Stanton
• Suffrage
• Susan B. Anthony
• Carrie Catt-National American Womens Suffrage
  Association

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• Prostitution 1910 Mann Act

1920 Illegal in all states except Nevada
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Women-Prohibition

• Carrie Nation

Francis Willard WCTC
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Socialism

• Karl Marx

Bill Haywood I.W.W. Wobblies
Eugene Debs Socialist Party Of America
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Social Life-Universities

• Morrill Land Grant
• Elizabeth Blackwell

George Washington Carver
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The Middle Class
Chautauqua
Spas and Resorts
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The Working Class Leisure
Chicago Worlds Fair
Coney Island
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Sports
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Boxing

• John L. Sullivan

Jack Johnson
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Cars
Ford Model T
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The Women
The Gibson Girl