The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

530 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 The House of Representatives, on the other hand, was one o ...

Recurrent Issues 531 twelve hours because most of the members of an important committee were too drunk to prepare a vital approp ...

532 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 Republicans. Many Republicans endorsed tariff reform in pr ...

Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issues 533 income of bondholders and other creditors but injured debtors. Farmers were particul ...

534 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 Lackluster Presidents: From Hayes to Harrison The leading ...

Lackluster Presidents: From Hayes to Harrison 535 The tragic circumstances of his elevation to the presidency sobered Arthur. Al ...

536 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 Rock and Fort Smith Railroad. On the other hand, it came o ...

African Americans in the South After Reconstruction 537 Harrison believed ardently in protective tariffs. His approach to fiscal ...

538 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 races in this country are indissolubly linked together, an ...

Booker T. Washington: A “Reasonable” Champion for African Americans 539 not especially wish blacks ill; they simply consigned th ...

540 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 obsequious might, like discretion, be the better part of v ...

Crops and Complaints 541 Many substantial citizens shared at least indi- rectly in the corruption. The owners of tenements were ...

542 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 In the 1890s disaster struck. First came a succes- sion of ...

The Populist Movement 543 That convention nominated General James B. Weaver of Iowa for president (with a one-legged Confederate ...

544 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 Showdown on Silver One conclusion that politicians reached ...

The Depression of 1893 545 1878 the Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act authorized the buying of between $2 million and $4 million ...

546 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 to bolster the reserve, but the gold reserve contin- ued t ...

foundations of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Central to Kazin’s analysis was Bryan’s mastery of an impassioned rhetorical style ...

548 Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 by repudiating Cleveland the Democrats escaped much of the ...

The Meaning of the Election 549 The Meaning of the Election During the campaign, some frightened Republicans had laid plans for ...