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©2006 PEARSON EDUCATION, INC. Publishing as Longman Publishers

The 1890s

CREATED EQUAL

JONES WOOD MAY BORSTELMANN RUIZ

CHAPTER 18Political and Cultural

Conflict in a Decade of Depression and War

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“If we are not striving for equality, in heaven’s name for what are we living?”

John Hope, black professor at Roger Williams University, 1896

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TIMELINE

1887 U.S. gains control over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and Pogo Pogo, Samoa

1889 Oklahoma opened to white settlers

1890 Territory of Oklahoma established by Congress

Congress establishes Yosemite Valley as a national park

Massacre at Wounded Knee

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

First Pan-American Conference in Washington

National-American Woman Suffrage Association formed

1891 The Court of Private Land Claims

11 Italian prisoners lynched in New Orleans

1892 Sierra Club founded by John Muir

230 deaths of black men by lynching

First national convention of Populist party

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TIMELINE

1893 Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”

September 16, 100,000 people claimed 6.5 million acres in Oklahoma Territory

Immigration Restriction League launches campaign to impose literacy test on incoming aliens

Western Federation of Miners founded

National depression hits

Laws protecting women and ending child labor

1895 Encyclopedia Britannica first published

United States v. E.C. Knight

Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company

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TIMELINE

1896 Plessy v. Ferguson

National Association of Colored Women

McKinley wins Presidency over Bryan

1897 Peary returns from Arctic accompanied by 6 Eskimos

1898 Commodore Dewey sinks Spanish ships in Manila Bay

U.S. declares war on Spain

Hawaii annexed

Rough Riders and San Juan Hill

1899 U.S. fights war against Filipino rebels

White Man’s Union

1900 Between 1890 and 1900, 3 million immigrants entered the United States

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POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CONFLICT Overview

Frontiers at Home, Lost and FoundThe Search for AlliancesAmerican Imperialism

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FRONTIERS AT HOME, LOST AND FOUND

Exceptionalism: the idea that its individualism and democratic values make the US unique among nations.Turner’s thesis: “The Significance of the Frontier in

American History”

The need to assimilate and Americanize certain groups of people and to tighten systems of legal discrimination against others

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Claiming and Managing the Land

1889: unoccupied lands opened to settlers, “Sooners”, and to oil developers

The government oversaw the land:Court of Private Land Claims, USDA, Weather Bureau,

Division of Road Inquiries, Division of Biological SurveyNational Parks are created

Yosemite, Mount Rainier, GlacierSierra Club founded by John Muir

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Indian Territory and the State of Oklahoma, 1885-1907

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The Tyranny of Racial Categories

Factors in new obsession with raceColonization brings whites face to face with dark

skinned people“New Immigration” from eastern EuropeViolence along the US-Mexican borderResistance of African Americans and Indians to

authority of white people

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Indian Reservations, 1900

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Establishing “racial” categories

Encyclopedia Britannica lists physical characteristics allegedly distinguishing the races

Democrats in the South impose voting restrictions on African AmericansLiteracy requirements, poll taxes, “grandfather clauses”

1896: Plessy v. Ferguson: separate but equalLynching:

1892: 230 black men lynched1891: 11 Italian prisoners lynched in New Orleans

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New Roles for Schools

Schools separated into particular groups“Industrial Education Movement”: School as

vehicle for vocational training evoking different reactions from black leaders:Booker T. WashingtonW.E.B. DuBois and John Hope

Catholic Schools

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Connections Between Consciousness and Behavior

The “interior” frontierWilliam James, Principles of Psychology (1890)

and The Will to Believe (1897)Henry James-William’s brother and novelist

Encounters and clashes between European and American elites

Stephan Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1894) reality and human psychology

Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) gender roles

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THE SEARCH FOR ALLIANCES

Class ConflictRise and Demise of the PopulistsBarriers to a U.S. Workers’ Political

MovementChallenges to Traditional Gender

Roles

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Class ConflictThe Pension Act and The Sherman Silver Purchase

Act Strikes and violenceHomestead Plant

Armed workers battled with detectives from Pinkerton: 10 deadAmalgamated Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers union brokenWorkforce and wages reduced

Union organizing stymied by hatredProtestants vs. Roman Catholics, Irish vs. English,

Europeans vs. Mexicans and Chinese

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Class Conflict

1892: mine owners in Idaho form “protective assocation”: miners and and troops clashed

Populist party emerged as a national forceFirst national convention in 1892Depression of 1893

Coxey’s Army marched on Washington to petition Congress

United States v. E.C. Knight and Pollock v. Farmer’s Loand and Trust Company: big business favored

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The Demise of the Populists

1896: William Jennings Bryan nominatedMcKinley outspends Bryan and uses slogan: “In

God we trust, in Bryan we bust”The Populist decline after election; and even with

intense class conflicts, no viable worker’s party emerges

Unlike movements in Europe, ethnic, racial, and religious prejudices play major role in preventing a socialist movement in U.S.

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Barriers to a U.S. Workers’ Political Movement

Large influx of immigrants—competition for jobsWhite Protestants won advantage in workplace —

exclusion based on racial and ethnic groundsMechanization and technological development impeded

across-industry alliancesGeographic mobility“Winner take all” principle

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Challenges to Traditional Gender Roles

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the NAWSAThe General Federation of Women’s ClubsNational Association of Colored WomenRamabai CirclesEmma Goldman: sexual liberation and rights

of workersCharlotte Perkins Gilman

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AMERICAN IMPERALISM

Cultural Encounters with the ExoticInitial Imperialist VenturesThe Spanish-American-Cuban-

Filipino War of 1898Critics of Imperialism

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Cultural Encounters with the Exotic

Fascination in America for exotic artifacts and images

Robert Perry and Greenland Eskimos: Qisuk and son, Minik

Chicago’s Columbian ExpositionArtists: Frederic Edwin Church, John

Singer-Sargent, Eric Pape

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Initial Imperialist Ventures

Mahan: The Influence of Seapower in History, 1660-1763

US control over Pearl Harbor and Pago Pago1890: Washington DC hosts first Pan-

American Conference May 1, 1898: Dewey sinks Spanish ships in

Manila BayRoosevelt, Rough Riders, and San Juan HillCuba: The Platt AmendmentPhilippine Islands owned by U.S.

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Hawaii

1887: U.S. in Pearl HarborHawaiian sugar shipped duty free to StatesMcKinley Tariff of 1890

1893: planters and U.S. Marines depose Queen Liliuokalani

President Cleveland honors Hawaiians request not to be annexed

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The Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War of 1898

1895: Cuban nationalists staged an uprising against Spanish

Publishers Hearts and Pulitzer engaged in “yellow journalism” stirring up war

April, 1898: McKinley asked Congress to declare war on SpainTeller Amendment

Dewey in the Philippines: Manila Bay, May 1st, 1898 and Manila taken in August

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War of 1898 continued

July 7, 1898: Hawaiian’s granted U.S. citizenship rights and official U.S. territory in 1900

July: Roosevelt’s Rough Riders’ and Black regiments’ victorious charges

August 12, 1898: Spain signs armistice Platt Agreement: guarantees U.S. influence over Cuba Philippines bought for $20 million Filipino rebels fight with U.S. for 2 years until 1901 China open for trade; Boxer Rebellion quelled by Germans,

Japanese, British, French, and Americans

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Critics of Imperialism

Mark Hanna, New York financier labels Roosevelt a “madman” The Anti-Imperalist League

Mark Twain Samuel Gompers Andrew Carnegie

Sumner and Social Darwinism Immigrants back Imperialism to claim Americanness 1900: McKinley and Roosevelt take White House