Week 4 Friday Lecture

Week 4, Friday Lecture

I. The Crisis of the Late 19th Century

II. Late Nineteenth-Century Politics

A. Civil War and Reconstruction
B. Retreat from federal power
C. A Succession of weak presidents: Hays, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison
D. Gilded Age Congress
E. Absence of Federal Administration

III. A POLITICIZED NATION

IV. Election of 1896

A. Democratic Division
IMAGE: Grover Cleveland

B. William McKinley
IMAGE: William McKinley

C. William Jennings Bryan
IMAGE: William Jennings Bryan
Bryan's "Cross of Gold Speech"

D. Populist Fusion

E. THE BATTLE OF STANDARDS

1.      Pietism and Agrarianism
2.      Nationalism and Pragmaticism
3.      Why Bryan Lost

V. Long-Term Implications: The System of 1896

A.     National Republican Domination
B.     No Labor Party in the US
C.     Solidly Democratic South

VI. A New Direction

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