Class Notes US History 10/05/2009

Class Notes US History 10/05/2009

1. education would only make a good field-hand
2. Tillman, extremely wealthy planter, takes over S. Carolina
3. Watson, different Populist Party, racist/nativism, calls for disenfranchisement of blacks, supports Polk Smith(D), 
4. state constitution convention: put white in front of qualification for voting
5. terrorist campaigns against blacks trying to vote in Louisiana
6. 1890s: whites try to take away the vote 
7. 4,000 blacks were lynched, 3rd part of segregation to protect the “purity” of white-women 
8. Ida Wells Barnet, spoke truth to power, moved to Chicago
9. Successful blacks were lynched
10. Northern investors were developing the market in the south, rural crop economy to consumer economy.
11. American elections were run like military campaigns, tightly disciplined
12. politics: power & patronage
13. McKinley: 10:1 Money capacity 
14. Hanna focused on criticizing Bryan’s campaign
15. society was an interdependent web of producers
16. organized labor supports the protective tariff
17. Bryan, rural imagery, long speeches, 
18. McKinley expands the power of the office of the presidency 
19. McKinley creates a new tariff 
20. wool, silk, cattle hides: higher tariffs