American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Objectives

1. The nature of American party politics in the last third of the nineteenth century.

2. The problems of political patronage in the administrations of Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur that led to the passage of the Pendleton Act.

3. The circumstances that permitted the Democrats to gain control of the presidency in the elections of 1884 and 1892.

4. The origins, purposes, and effectiveness of the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act.

5. The positions of the two major parties on the tariff question, and the actual trend of tariff legislation in the 1880s and 1890s.

6. The rise of agrarian discontent as manifested in the Granger movement, the Farmers' Alliances, and the Populist movement.

7. The rise of the silver question from the "Crime of ‘73" through the Gold Standard Act of 1900.

8. The significance of the presidential campaign and election of 1896.

9. The reasons for the decline of agrarian discontent after 1898.

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