Building towards Empire

HIST 1234

September 17, 2014

Building towards Empire: 1876-1898.

The West and American empire.

Foreign Policy, Tariff Policy, and the American Political System.

The tariff and the third party system.

Party coalitions

Democrats:

  • Catholics (in the north)
  • White Southerners
  • Non-commercial farmers

Party coalitions

Republicans

  • African Americans (in the south)
  • Holders of Capital
  • Workers in new industrial plants.
  • Commercial farmers
  • Union Army veterans.

Industrial Expansion and the need for new markets.

Hawaii: Case study.

man

  • John L. Stevens