HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture I Haymarket Riots II Pullman Strike III Political Power IV Civil Service Reform V Tariff Issue VI Greenback and Silver Movements VII Depression of 1893 1897 VIII Farmer s Alliance Outline of Current Lecture I The Rise and fall of the People s Party II The Silver Issue III The Election of 1896 IV Test Review V Essay Questions Current Lecture These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute I The Rise and fall of the People s Party Support for the populists in the plain and mountain states Farmers are in the Plains and Miners are in the Mountain states A person very important in the bringing together of various groups was Leonidas L Cope He was from North Carolina and was a prominent member of Farmer s Alliance He dies early while the party is till being formed The evolution of the Farmer s Alliance they hold their first political election in 1892 The two major parties are going to run the same candidates and they will still be arguing over the Tariff issue 1892 election there is a reaction from what the lower classes felt about the tariff so republicans are going to lose this election The platform they put together is going to mirror the Ocala demands in 1892 The Populous names James B Weaver as their nominee from Iowa which was a farm state To balance the ticket they have a Virginian also heavily agricultural named James Field They do not win the presidential election but they do take control of many western legislatures The South is heavily agricultural and you think they do well but the Democrats have control of the South and use Racial Demogauary They tell people if you vote for the populous then you will give blacks control so political votes stayed with the Democrats II The Silver Issue 1896 a person is going to bring the Democratic Party around to the silver argument William Jennings Bryan is a Nebraskan congressman that showed up at the Democrat convention 1896 not as a delegate but to push certain ideas He is successful at getting the silver plan adapted to the Democratic Platform Bryan wanted to be the nominee for the Democrats but by the end of the convention Bryan is requested to give a speech on the Silver Plank being added to their platform Bryan gives the Cross of Gold Speech You shall not crucify silver etc He uses biblical symbolism to gain popularity and is nominated for the democrats This creates a major issue for the Populous They can t fight the Democrats so they just nominate William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate as well The Democratic Whale swallows the populous fish and they cannot field candidates at a NATIONAL level even though they have some success at the state level III The Election of 1896 Democrats choose William Jennings Bryan and the republicans choose William McKinley They choose to run a Tariff campaign instead of the silver issue Republicans paint Bryan as an irresponsible inflationist If you elect the democrats your dollar will only be worth 0 57 Mark Hanna s idea was the William McKinley would not leave his front porch and the press would talk to him from here Bryan breaks a convention by being the first person to openly campaign at the convention for votes McKinley is more conventional except for the press being able to report everything he says This election is the most impassioned in a generation The South and the West for Bryan against the North beating for McKinley Unfortunately for the Democrats the population majority is the northern states so Mickenly wins Farmers are not happy but Gold is being discovered all over the world and more gold end this long deflationary period Those who are arguing for silver cannot argue about the benefits of inflation No political solution does this it s a change in the world s gold found Republicans have control from this point well into the beginning of the second decade of the 20th century 1896 1912 There will be battles between the Republican Party but democrats will not be part of these elections IV Test Review As far as presidential reconstruction know the parties involved in each of them the basic arguments that were made by Lincoln and by Johnson What were the most important ideas that criticized Lincoln Wade Davis manifesto the reaction to the pocket veto of the wade Davis bills What was the congressional reconstruction meant to do Black codes do not confuse them with Jim Crow laws because not one of the possible answers Tenure of office act 1867 what was the main reason for its passage and who did it target Lqc Lamar Mississippi delegates concerned with the Mississippi plain Concentration native Americans how they were being treated and pushed on reservations Board grant put this in place Dawes severalty act Williams v Mississippi what was the finding of the court Munn vs Illinois what did the court fin Interstate congress act what did it do and what group it aimed at All book titles know that author and the general ideas Knights know the basic platform and how it differs from American Federation of Labor Sherman anti trust act what did it provide for Who was the person who put it forward Free silver 16 1 silver to gold ratio then coined V Essay Questions 1 Impeachment process went through in class give that back in an essay but also include the issues between congress and Johnson TELL HIM ABOUT THE IMPEACHMENT PROCESS FROM BEGINNING TO END 2 5 major provisions of the 14th amendment but break it down according to how he told it Tell him how the 14th amendment was significant to the previous passage of the civil rights act of 1865 How this was part of the congressional reconstruction 3 Describe the rise of Jim Crow tell the story of Plessy vs Ferguson and explain the story he relayed to us TELL THE STORY OF THE CASE 4 Compare and contrast pools trust and holding companies tell what each of them is and they say how they are differed and how they are structures Then how they are alike 5 Notice how some of these questions work in with some of the terms in the fill in the blanks Need to explain how the factions fit into the process How long should my Essay be However long it needs to be to answer the question in the time allotted You have to decide what is important and then be able to write a coherent essay in the most important part of time You will not be able to adequately answer in less than 3 well developed paragraphs