HIST 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sherman Silver Purchase Act, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, Winfield Scott Hancock
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Politics and expansion in an industrializing age 1877-1900. Party politics in an are of upheaval: democrats, recovering form the civil war, geographically, democrats are in the south, southern midwest and northeastern cities. Immigrant support- got their support from being anti-society reform, supporting individualism and being against prohibition: hands off government, republicans, a strong political grasp until all the southern states came into the union and the election of. James garfield: chester a. arthur, democrats, winfield scott hancock, pendleton civil service act- merit based civil service jobs, democrats take over, election of 1884, republicans. Support group- for farmers: 1. 5 million members, buy less grow more, cooperatives, attacked railroads. Federal funding for irrigation research: the famers alliance, 1892 the peoples party or populist party, direct popular election of senators. Store non perishable commodities in government warehouse, receive low interest loans using the crops as collateral, and then sell the stored commodities when market prices rose.
