Apush Unit 5 Study Guide

Populists:

Grew from the Farmer’s Alliance

Free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at 16:1 ratio

Increased circulating medium (no less that $50 per capita)

Graduated income tax

It was big in the 1890s (major electoral victories)

Several members of the House of Representatives and the election of 1 U.S. senator

Against monopolies

More Democratic government (more control to people)

Wanted more direct government action to help the working class

Government ownership of railroads, telegraph, and telephone

Government subsidies to assist in stabilizing agricultural prices

8 hour work day

Direct election of U.S. senators

Increased voter power with the use of initiative referendum and recall

“people’s party”

1892 candidate was James J. Weaver

1896 endorsed William Jennings Bryan

Imperialism:

United States tried to get world dominance

Captain Alfred Mahan and his book “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History” said that control of the sea was the key to world dominance

U.S. was fighting with Britain over control of Venezuela

Olney said to Britain that they were violating the Monroe Doctrine because the U.S. had claimed the whole western hemisphere

At first, Britain was opposed to this and angry with the U.S.

Then, Britain’s anger was turned to the Germans and they wanted a peaceful settlement with the United States

Spanish American War

One cause was the Wilson Gorman tariff

Fighting began in the Philippines in 1898

Was fought to free the Philippines from Spanish rule

Americans were fed up with how the Spaniards were treating the Cubans

Admiral Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Pacific

American ship, the Maine, was sunk in the Havana harbor (from an explosion on the ship)

Hertz and Pulitzer blamed Spanish (yellow journalism)

Theodore