Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson

The American Promise: A History of the United States

Fourth Edition

CHAPTER 20

Dissent, Depression, and War

1890 –1900

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The Farmers’ Revolt

• The Farmers’ Alliance • The Populist Movement

The Labor Wars

• The Homestead Lockout • The Cripple Creek Miners’ Strike of 1894 • Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike

Women’s Activism

• Frances Willard and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Woman Suffrage

Depression Politics

• Coxey’s Army • The People’s Party and the Election of 1896

The United States and the World

• Markets and Missionaries • The Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door Policy

War and Empire

• “A Splendid Little War” • The Debate over American Imperialism

Chapter 20

Dissent, Depression, and War: 1890 –1900 • • • • • • • • • • • Map 20.1 The Election of 1892 (p. 724) Map 20.2 The Election of 1896 (p. 726) Map 20.3 The Spanish-American War, 1898 (p. 735) Map 20.4 U.S. Overseas Expansion through 1900 (p. 739) Figure 20.1 Consumer Prices and Farm Income, 1865 –1910 (p. 709) Figure 20.2 Expansion in U.S. Trade, 1870 –1910 (p. 727) Global Comparison Share of the World Wheat Market, 1860 –1900 (p. 708) The First Farmers’ Alliance Flag (p. 708) Homestead Workers Attack the Pinkertons (p. 715) The Battle of San Juan Hill (p. 738) Columbia’s Easter Bonnet (p. 740)