01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: William Jennings Bryan, Pullman Strike, Free Silver
13 May 2018
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Chapter 17 - Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad,
1890–1900
1. Agrarian revolt
1. The farmers' plight
1. Generally
1. Falling agricultural prices
2. Growing economic dependency
2. Regional variants
1. In trans-Mississippi West
2. In South
2. Farmers Alliance
1. Origins and spread
2. Strategies
1. Initial cooperative approach; "exchanges"
2. Turn to "subtreasury plan," political engagement
3. Advent of People's (Populist) party
1. Scope of following
2. Grassroots mobilization
3. Guiding vision
1. Commonwealth of small producers as fundamental to
freedom
2. Restoration of democracy and economic opportunity
3. Expansion of federal power
4. Omaha platform
4. Populist coalition
1. Interracial alliance
1. Extent
2. Limits
2. Involvement of women
1. Mary Elizabeth Lease
2. Support for women's suffrage
3. Electoral showing for 1892
5. Prospects for Populist-labor alliance
1. Context
1. Economic collapse of 1893
2. Resurgence of conflict between labor and capital
3. Sharpening of government repression of labor
2. Key episodes
1. Miners strike at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
2. Coxey's Army
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3. Pullman strike
3. Populist appeals to industrial workers in 1894
1. Some success among miners
2. Minimal success among urban workers; preference
for Republicans
6. Election of 1896
1. Campaign of William Jennings Bryan
1. Joint support by Democrats and Populists
2. Electrifying rhetoric
3. Themes
1. "Free silver"
2. Social Gospel overtones
3. Vision of activist government
4. National tour to rally farmers and workers
2. Campaign of William McKinley
1. Insistence on gold standard
2. Massive financial support from big business
3. National political machine; Mark Hanna
3. Outcome
1. Sharp regional divide
2. McKinley victory
4. Significance and legacy
1. Emergence of modern campaign tactics
2. Launching of Republican political dominance
3. Fading of Populism
2. The segregated South
1. Redeemers in power
1. Dismantling of Reconstruction programs
2. Convict lease system
2. Failures of the New South
1. Limits of economic development
2. Persistence of regional poverty
3. Black life
1. Rural
1. Varied prospects around region
2. Elusive quest for land
2. Urban
1. Network of community institutions
2. The black middle class
3. Racially exclusive labor markets
1. For black men
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