CHAPTER TWENTY: COMMONWEALTH AND EMPIRE, 1870–1900

Edward Bellamy- Looking Backward

The Growth of Government

            New agencies

            ICC

The Machinery of Politics

            Republicans v. Democrats- tariff

            “The Lackluster Presidency”

The “Boss”

William Tweed- Tammany Hall

The Spoils System and Civil Service Reform

            Arthur & Pendleton Act

Populists

The Grange

            Munn v. Illinois

The Farmers’ Alliance

Workers Search for Power

            Great Uprising

            Henry George, Progress and Poverty

WCTU

NAWSA

Farmer-Labor Unity

Financial Collapse and Depression of 1893

Strikes and Labor Solidarity

            “protective association”

The Social Gospel

The Free Silver Issue

Populism’s Last Campaigns

            “Cross of Gold”

Nativism

Jim Crow

            Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

            Grandfather clauses

            Poll taxes

Mob Violence

Ida B. Wells

Tom Watson