The Fourth Party System
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Hawaii
o 1820 – New England Missionaries
o 1840s – Block other powers
o 1875 – Commercial Agreement
o 1887 – Naval Agreement
o 1890 – McKinley Tariff
o Queen Liliuokalani
o Rebellion
o Annexation
 Blocked by Cleveland
 Delayed until 1898
Grover Cleveland’s Second Presidency
o Depression of 1893
 Overbuilding
 Speculation
 Labor Disorders
 Agricultural depression
 Free Silver Agitation
o Cleveland’s Tumor
o “General” Jacob S. Coxey
 Coxey’s Army
o Congressional Session 1893
 William Jennings Bryan
 Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
 Treasury Bonds
o Labor Issues Return
 Eugene V. Debs
 American Railway Union
 Pullman Palace Car Company
 Pullman Strike
 Governor John Peter Altgeld of Illinois
 U.S. Attorney General Richard Olney
o Wilson-Gorman Tariff in 1894
o J.P. “Jupiter” Morgan
 Deal with Cleveland
 Gold Loan
o Congressional elections of 1894
o The “Forgettable Presidents”
 Grant
 Hayes
 Garfield
 Arthur
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 Harrison
 Cleveland
o Foreign Affairs
o Boundary Dispute
 Britain
 Venzuala
 US Involvement
 Monroe Doctrine
 Cleveland
 Richard Olney
 German Actions
 Kaiser Wilhelm II
 Boer Wars
 Effect on Venezuela issues
 Great Reproachment
Election of 1896
o Republicans - William McKinley
 Marcus Alonzo Hanna
o Democrats - William Jennings Bryan
 “The Boy Orator of the Platte”
 “Cross of Gold” Speech
o Populist Dilemma
o Effects of Election of 1896
 New Era of American Politics
 Resounding victory for
 big business
 big cities
 middle-class values
 financial conservatism
 Last serious effort to win White House with agrarian votes
 Republican Dominance
 All but eight of the next thirty-six years
 “Fourth party system”