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Chapter 21

Chapter 21. Populism. Cartoon Analysis. 300 word minimum Analyze your assigned cartoon using the website provided http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/1896home.html PRINT OUT CARTOON AND ATTACH TO YOUR ANALYSIS

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Chapter 21

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  1. Chapter 21 Populism

  2. Cartoon Analysis • 300 word minimum • Analyze your assigned cartoon using the website provided • http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/1896home.html • PRINT OUT CARTOON AND ATTACH TO YOUR ANALYSIS • What is the cartoonist trying to say, and how does this fit into the Populist Era and 1896? • Due January 31

  3. City Bosses • Corruption • Party Machines • Sullivan: NYC • Kenna: Chicago • Tweed and NY’s Tammany Hall • Popularity?

  4. Party Politics • Swing States • Role of NY, OH, IN, and IL • Lackluster leaders • Hayes: tariff, gold, South? • Garfield: indecisiveness, South?, Stalwarts and Half-breeds get him nominated, assassination • Arthur: defended spoils system, but helped pass Pendleton Act • Cleveland: illegitimate child, mudslinging • Blaine: tied to Mulligan letters (favors for RR) • Harrison: reserved, protective tariffs, said he favored civil service reform…?

  5. Agrarian Revolt: Populists • The Grange, 1867 • Farmers’ Alliances • Mary Ellen Lease • 1892, nominate James B. Weaver • Populists • “free silver”, anti-immigration stance, in South controversy over Blacks in party • Omaha Platform, 1892: subtreasuries, direct election of senators, regulation of RR/telephone/telegraphs, graduated income tax, currency reform • Role of Panic of 1893 • Coxey’s Army due to “Crime of ’73” • Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech

  6. 1896 Election • Democrats, Republicans, Socialists, Populists • Democrats and Populists both nominated Bryan…McKinley wins as Republicans associate POPULISM with SOCIALISM • McKinley “in pocket of Big Business” • Collapse of Populist Party • Significance of Election?

  7. “Cross of Gold”

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