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 -Panic of 1893

 

 

 

 

 

 

1893-11

 

 

 

 

Sherman Silver Purchase Act -repeal

 

 

1893-12

 

Hawaii annexation treaty not submitted

 

 

 

 

 

1894

 

Republic of Hawaii recognized

 

 

Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act; personal income tax – Notice Pollack v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co.

National Municipal League formed

 

1894-03 - 1894-05

 

 

 

 

 

“Legal Tender” Jacob Coxey’s Army – petition for road building (jobs) to WashingtonWhat is a petition in the online Constitution.

 

1894-06

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

1894-11

 

 

 

 

 

 

Republican control of H of R

1895

 

Venezuela – Britain Boundary dispute

Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co.[1]

 

US Bond sale - handled by J.P. Morgan

Anti-Saloon League formed

 

1895

 

Cuban rebellion

E.C. Knight case

 

 

Atlanta Exposition speech – Booker T. Washington

 

1896

 

 

Plessy v. Ferguson, decided

 

 

 

 

1896-11

William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan –Click here for the issues 
 

 

 

 

 

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

1898-01

 

Cuban riot

 

 

 

 

 

1898-01

 

Battleship Maine – Notice this and the explosion.

 

 

 

 

 

1898-02

 

de Lôme letter

 

 

 

 

 

1898-02

 

Maine explosion

 

 

 

 

 

1898-04

 

War authorized -  Teller Amendment

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

1899-02

 

Treaty ending war - Senate approval –

 

Guam

Philippines

Puerto Rico

 

 

 

 

 

Filipino resistance - Emilio Aguinaldo – Notice this and the 1901 event

 

 

 

 

 

1899-09

 

Open Door - China

 

 

 

 

 

1900-08

 

Boxer Rebellion and US troops

 

 

 

 

 

1901

 

Aquinaldo capture (resistance through 1902, 1906) – Notice this and the 1899 event

 

 

 

 

 

1901

 

Renegotiate treaty (Clayton-Bulwer) - exclusive canal control

 

 

 

 

 

1901-03

 

Platt Amendment -Cuba

 

 

 

 

 

1900-11

William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keyword List on Business:

industrial capitalists

finance capitalists

substantive due process and business cases

injunctions under Sherman Anti-trust and labor

 

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

commission form of government

 

Keywords on Intellectual Trends:

1894 Wealth Against Commonwealth – Henry Demarest Lloyd

1890s Pragmatism - William James

1899 The School and Society – John Dewey

1899 The Theory of the Leisure ClassThorstein 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.

 



 

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[1] It is the 1894 personal income tax that goes to the Supreme Court and the court declares this income tax unconstitutional—thus the later amendment to the Constitution.