4.  Compare and contrast the business methods, professional careers, and social attitudes of Jay Gould, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie.

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5.  Discuss, analyze, and evaluate the rise and fall of the Populist Party.

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  • Rural Farmers did not feel that they were getting fair representation
  • Farmers were going into debt
  • Farmers first united politically to improve their situation in Lampassas County, Texas, forming the Knights of Reliance
  • Later became the Farmers' Alliance
  • After 1885, spread through att the cotton states
  • Courted, blacks, whites, northerners, and southerners
  • Opposed by people's strong sense of party identity throughout the country
  • Ocala platform in 1892
      ·  government control of railroads
      ·  more government supervision of big business
      ·  graduated income tax
      ·  coinage of silver at a 16:1 rate with gold
      ·  subtreasury plan (government crop warehouses where farmers could store their crops for use as collateral)
  • Because the Populists could not get widespread support on their own, they gave their presidential nomination to Democrat William Jennings Bryan
  • William Jennings Bryan had advocated many of the Populists' goals in his "Cross of Gold" speech
  • The Populists hoped that by latching on to a major party candidate who supported them at least partially, they would be able to win
  • Because of support from the radical Populists, many Democrats would not support Bryan
  • Many Democrats instead voted for William McKinley, the Republican candidate because they were afraid of the effects on business if Bryan won with Populist support
  • McKinley's Front Porch campaign won the election
  • The end of the populist party was essentially when Bryan lost the election
  • Populist philosophy and ideas lived on in the Progressives
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  • The majority of the population were still rural farmers
  • Many farmers had to buy the supplies needed to restart their farms based solely on credit based on the crops they would grow
  • "Crime of '73", — the Coinage Act of 1873 hurt the debtor farmers by shrinking the money supply
  • Nominated Weever for president in 1892

    • 6.  Discuss, analyze, and evaluate how and why the United States became involved in World War I.

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  • The US sold supplies to the nations involved
  • The US sold mostly to Britain and France
  • The US did a small amount of trade with the Central Powers also
  • The US did lots of business with Britain and France just on credit
  • There would have been huge economic damage if Britain and France were unable to repay us
  • The US felt obliged to France because of their aid in the Revolutionary War
  • Close ties with Britain because of common language
  • All the news from Europe came to the US from England with the Allied spin
  • The sinking of the Lusitania did not bring us into the war, but helped turn opinion to favor the Allies over the Central Powers
  • Even though U-Boat attacks required stealth and secrecy, the Germans had indirectly warned about the Lusitania
  • The Zimmerman Telegram, from Germany to Mexico
  • The Mexicans and Pancho Villa were to keep America busy
  • ?February Resumption?
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  • The Lusitania was a passenger ship secretly carrying war materials for the Allies.
  • The Germans had published warnings in several American newspapers to stay off the Lusitania

    • 7.  Discuss, compare, and contrast the key personalities & ideas involved in the development of Social Darwinism, the Social Gospel, and Pragmatism in United States.

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