UNITED STATES HISTORY II
LECTURE OUTLINE TWO
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- LABOR UNREST AND VIOLENCE
- URBANIZATION AND ITS IMPACT
- reasons for urbanization
- urbanization, industrialization and the impact upon the family
- the family as a "community of affection"
- IMMIGRATION
- reasons for emigration
- overview of post-1880 immigration--statistics and demographics
- immigrants, culture and religion
- Reform and Orthodox Judaism
- Roman Catholics (Americanism vs. Traditionalism)
- PROTESTANTISM IN THE CITIES
- defensive response
- offensive response--evangelism and social uplift
- THE SOUTH UNDER THE REDEEMER GOVERNMENTS
- stagnation of sharecropping and tenancy
- "New South" Movement
- policies of the Redeemers in Southern state governments
- Readjusters' opposition to Redeemer governments
- Redeemer governments and freedmen--reassertion of white supremacy
- DISFRANCHISMENT AND JIM CROW LAWS
- disfranchisement through poll taxes and literacy tests
- beginning of "separate but equal" and Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
- Jim Crow and segregation
- influence of the Populists upon Jim Crow and disfranchisement
- BLACKS' RESPONSE TO JIM CROW
- Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise
- W.E.B. DuBois and the NAACP
- POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE (1877-1896)
- Overall relative decline of governmental activism
- Politics as a vital part of culture
- Era of political equilbrium and its characteristics
- Major parties were divided into factions/groups
- Republicans--Stalwarts, Half-Breeds, and Mugwumps
- Democrats--Northern and Southern factions
- Important issues of the day
- Civil War emotions
- civil service reform and the 1883 Pendleton Act
- monetary policy
- The Crime of '73
- 1878 Bland-Allison Act
- 1890 Sherman Silver Purchase Act
- tariff
- Ethnocultural political patterns
- Democrats as "liturgicals"
- Republicans as "pietists"
- the characteristics of liturgicals and pietists
- the relationship of these groups to the two major parties
- RISE OF AGRARIAN UNREST
- Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange)--its functions and goals
- Alliance Movements--their functions and goals
- Populist Party
- its programs and reforms--the importance of free silver
- eventual influence upon the 1896 Democratic platform
- the Populists and labor
- 1890s AND THE OVERTURN OF POLITICAL EQUILIBRIUM
- Panic of 1893
- Grover Cleveland's responses to the Panic--repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
- Cleveland epitomized the Democrats' view of goverment
- The Election of 1896
- William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan
- the candidates' images and visions
- the importance of the money issue
- the overtone of ethnocultural issues in the 1896 campaign
- how Bryan alienated voters
- how McKinley attracted voters
- the beginning of the ascendancy of the Republican Party