Events related to Hawaii and the Pacific Region (in Dark Grey), China (in Pink), and Latin America and Caribbean (in Light Grey)

Key events in politics and the economy remain but = row or information removed.

 

Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1887-1893 Era – With Keywords List to Help You

 

 

Date

Presidential Election/Event

Beyond America/ Foreign Policy

Government Institutions

US Land Expansion

US Economic Development

Issue/Organization Development

Political Party Development

1882

 

 

Chinese Exclusion Act – 10 year period

 

 

 

 

1887-02

 

Hawaii-US treaty renewed

 

 

 

 

1888-11

Benjamin Harrison v. Grover Cleveland

Secretary of State: James G. Blaine

 

 

 

 

1889-04

 

Latin America, counters with Pan-American Union[1]

 

Oklahoma Land Rush

 

Hull House –  Jane Addams - settlement house

<Future

1890

 

Blaine – reciprocity tariff

Sherman Anti-Trust

Wounded Knee, South Dakota

McKinley Tariff   

National American Woman Suffrage merger

<Future

1890

 

A.T. Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power on History

<Future

Census Bureau: end of frontier

<Future

 

 

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

1892

 

 

Chinese – new 10 year extension

 

 

 

 

1892-01

 

Coup, HawaiiSanford B. Dole,[2]

elected President; US minister to Hawaii declaration of US protectorate

Ellis Island opens

<Future

 

Homer A. Plessy, case begins

 

1892-02

 

Hawaii annexation treaty proposed

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1893-1901 Era – With Keywords to Help You

 

Date

Presidential Election/Event

Beyond America/ Foreign Policy

Government Institutions

US Land Expansion

US Economic Development

Issue/Organization Development

Political Party Development

1892-11

Benjamin Harrison v. Grover Cleveland v. James B. Weaver

 

 

 

Panic of 1893

 

 

1893-03

 

Hawaii investigation

 

 

 

 

 

1893-08

Cleveland calls special session -Why?

 

 

 

 

 

1893-11

 

 

 

 

Sherman Silver Purchase Act -repeal

 

 

1893-12

 

Hawaii annexation treaty not submitted

 

 

 

 

 

1894

 

Republic of Hawaii recognized

 

 

 

National Municipal League formed

<Future

1894-03 - 1894-05

 

 

 

 

 

“Legal Tender” Jacob Coxey’s Army – petition for road building (jobs)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pullman Strike – American Railway Union Strike – E.V. Debs

 

 

 

<Future

 

1895

 

Venezuela – Britain Boundary dispute

 

 

US Bond sale - handled by J.P. Morgan

Anti-Saloon League formed

<Future

1895

 

Cuban rebellion

E.C. Knight case

<Future

 

Atlanta Exposition speech – Booker T. Washington

 

1896

 

 

Plessy V. Ferguson

<Future

 

 

 

1896-11

William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan –Click for the issues in this election:  list
 

 

 

 

 

Populist support for Bryan - What are the Populists’ issues.

1898-01

 

Cuban riot

 

 

 

 

 

1898-01

 

Battleship Maine

 

 

 

 

 

1898-02

 

de Lôme letter

 

 

 

 

 

1898-02

 

Maine explosion

 

 

 

 

 

1898-04

 

War authorized - Teller Amendment

 

< Caution

 

 

 

 

1898-05

 

Dewey in Manilla – Notice this and this list on the Spanish American War.

 

 

 

 

 

1898-07

 

 

 

Hawaii annexation – by resolution (not treaty)- WHY?

 

 

 

1898-11

 

 

 

 

 

Anti-Imperialist League formed

<Future

1899-02

 

Treaty ending war - Senate approval –

 

Guam

Philippines

Puerto Rico

 

 

 

 

 

Filipino resistance - Emilio Aguinaldo

 

 

 

 

 

1899-09

 

Open Door - China

 

 

 

 

 

1900-08

 

Boxer Rebellion and US troops

 

 

 

 

 

1901

 

Aquinaldo capture (resistance through 1902, 1906)

 

 

 

 

 

1901

 

Renegotiate treaty (Clayton-Bulwer) - exclusive canal control

<Future  

 

 

 

 

1901-03

 

Platt Amendment -Cuba

< Caution

 

 

 

 

1900-11

William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan
<Future  Vice President Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keyword List on Business:

industrial capitalists

finance capitalists

substantive due process and business cases<Future

injunctions under Sherman Anti-trust and labor <Future

 

Keyword List on Minorities:

Carlisle Institute (PA)

 

Keyword List on Election of 1896:

“Cross of Gold” speech

Mark Hanna

Funding of $3.5-$4M

 

Keyword List on Spanish American War:

“Smoked Yankees”

“splendid little war”

Rough Riders

Keyword List on News:

“yellow journalism”

William Randolph Hearst – New York Journal

Joseph Pulitzer – New York World

 

Keyword List on Governmental Reform

Wisconsin Republican Robert M. La Follette

NY Republican Theodore Roosevelt <Future

commission form of government <Future

 

Keywords on Intellectual Trends:

1894 Wealth Against Commonwealth – Henry Demarest Lloyd<Future

1890s Pragmatism - William James <Future

1899 The School and Society – John Dewey

1899 The Theory of the Leisure Class – Thorstein Veblen

 

Panic of 1893 – Called the Great Depression until the one beginning in 1929 started

Quantities and the Panic of 1893:

17-19% unemployed

    600 banks fail

    119 railroads bankrupt

15,000 business closed

100s of millions – losses in stock market

Causes of the Panic of 1893

-       McKinley Tariff (too high to buy—thus lower revenues for the government)

-       British bank failures (Britishers need their cash—thus sell their American investments and take gold, not paper dollars)

-       Government pensions (too many given out by Harrison)

-       Gold below $100 million, then $80 million (perceived as too little—thus too much fear)

 

Cleveland, however, focuses on only one cause: The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.

He is wrong. Repeal of the act does not stop the depression.

 

 

Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2012

 

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History – Dr. Bibus

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Last Updated:

2012

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[1] Name in 1899 era was International Bureau of the American Republics.
What does the root word pan mean? All of a group, such as Pan American (as shown above) or Pan-Slavism (an issue in World War I)  or something widespread (such as a pandemic)

[2] The event is covered in your book, but not Dole’s name. (Where have you seen the name Dole in a grocery store?)