Politics and the Gilded Age

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The Billion-Dollar Congress• Midterm congressional elections of 1890– Rural voters turned against Republicans andvoted in large numbers for Democrats– Republicans lost their weak majority• Democrats got 235 seats; Republicans left with only 88– McKinley (Ohio Congressman who had sponsoredthe tariff bill) defeated– 9 congressmen elected by the Farmer’s Alliance
The Drumbeat of Discontent• 1892 – People’s Party (Populists) emerged– Came out of Farmers’ Alliance (farmers’ organizationstrong in agricultural West and South)– Platform called for• Inflation through free and unlimited coinage of silver (16 to 1ratio)• Graduated income tax (higher rates for higher incomes)• Government ownership of railroads, telegraph and telephonelines• Direct election of US senators• 1-term limit for president• Adoption of initiative and referendum (allowing citizens towrite and vote on laws directly, instead of through legislature)• Shorter workday• Immigration restriction– Nominated Union General James B. Weaver (formerly ofGreenback Labor Party) for president
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Political Paralysis in the GildedAg
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Postwar United States• The Gilded
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The Election of 1868
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Depression, Deflation, andInflation
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Pallid Politics in the Gilded Age
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