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| CHAPTER 22 | GILDED-AGE POLITICS AND AGRARIAN REVOLT | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1867 |
Patrons of Husbandry founded |
| 1877–1881 |
Hayes administration |
| 1877 |
Munn v. Illinois |
| 1878 |
Bland-Allison Act |
| March–September1881 |
Garfield administration |
| September 1881–1885 |
Arthur administration |
| 1883 |
Pendleton Civil Service Act |
| 1883 |
Mongrel Tariff Act |
| 1885–1889; 1893–1897 |
Cleveland administrations |
| 1887 |
Interstate Commerce Act |
| 1889–1893 |
Benjamin Harrison administration |
| 1890 |
Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| 1890 |
Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
| 1890 |
McKinley Tariff Act |
| 1892 |
Populist party founded |
| 1893 |
Economic depression |
| 1896 |
William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech |
| 1897–1901 |
McKinley administrations |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Describe the major features of politics in the late nineteenth century.
- Delineate the political alignments and issues in the “third political system.”
- Identify the major issues in the presidential elections of 1888, 1892, and
1896.
- Account for the rise of the farmers’ protest movement of the 1890s.
- Explain the impact of populism on the American political scene.
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