HIST206 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: William Jennings Bryan, Grover Cleveland, Solid South
19 Sep 2016
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Radical farmers groups and the knights of labor provided powerful challenges to industrialization. Urban settlements laid the groundwork for progressivism especially in women. The end of reconstruction ushered in a period of fierce partisan conflict. When political appealed to war loyalties, critics ridicules them for waving the bloody shirt whipping up old animosities that should be set aside. Many voters also had strong views on economic policies, especially republican"s high protective tariffs. With key states decided by razor thin margins, both republicans and democrats engaged in vote buying and other forms of fraud. Gilded age: when politics was corrupt and stagnant and elections centered on meaningless hoopla. America had achieve a glittery outer coating of prosperity and lofty rhetoric but underneath suffered from moral decay. Their gilded triumphs belied a rising crisis of poverty, pollution, and erosion of workers" rights . James garfield was shot at a train station in washington.
