1. STUDENT NOTES FOR CH. 20
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2. CHAPTER 20 Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890-1900
The American Promise
A History of the United States
CHAPTER 20
Dissent, Depression, and War,

3. The Farmers’ Revolt -Farmer’s Challenges -The railroad system
-Prices of land
-Previous protests
-The Farmer’s Alliance’s
-where were meetings?
-how spread message?
-what they encouraged?

4. The Farmers’ Alliance
So, what did these groups, Farmer’s Alliances hope to gain?
The Farmer’s Alliance launched what?
What did they demand?

5. Steel Workers vs. Andrew Carnegie
“Labor Wars”
Steel Workers vs. Andrew Carnegie
Henry Frick
What type of man was he?

6. Fort Frick
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Replacement workers?

7. “Pinks” vs. Workers

9. National Attention

10. PA governor persuaded Martial Law in Homestead Workers return…conditions The significance of this event was that “the workers learned their lesson”…Carnegie was in charge, NOT THEM!

11. Women’s Activism
Women were trying to fight for better working conditions and better lives in general
1.The WCTU (Woman's Christian temperance union): victim’s of drunkenness
2. Frances Willard’s Tactics—Moved it away from religiously oriented programs to a campaign that stressed alcoholism as a ______, not a _______.
3. Concept of “home protection”
4. Why did Willard argue that women needed the vote?

12. Woman’s suffrage (voting rights)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
AWSA vs. WCTU
United into the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Wyoming since 1869
1896: Colorado, Idaho,
Utah, Wyoming

13. The United States and the World
“A Splendid Little War”=Spanish-American War
Another important event during this time period was the Spanish-American War. It began with moral outrage over the treatment of Cuban revolutionaries, who had launched a fight for independence against the Spanish colonial regime in 1895; as the Cuban rebellion dragged on, pressure for U.S. intervention mounted.
Economic and Territorial Interests—American interests in Cuba were considerable; American business had more than $50 million invested in Cuban sugar; American trade with Cuba, a brisk $100 million a year before the rebellion, had dropped to near zero; More than Cuban independence was at stake, because war with Spain opened up the prospect of expansion into Asia as well—Spain controlled not only Cuba and Puerto Rico but also Guam and the Philippine Islands.

14. The United States and the World
The Maine—President McKinley slowly moved toward intervention; in a show of American force, he dispatched the armored cruiser Maine to Cuba; a mysterious blast destroyed the ship, killing 267 crew members and prompting cries for war back home.
A Brief War in Cuba—Congress declared war in April, and five days after McKinley signed the war resolution, the U.S. Navy, under Commodore George Dewey, destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay; war in Cuba ended almost as quickly as it began.
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders—Made Theodore Roosevelt a bona fide war hero; he formed the Rough Riders, a regiment composed of Ivy League polo players and western cowboys; played a role in the decisive battle of San Juan Hill; brought Roosevelt to the attention of prominent independent Republicans.