American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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1. How evenly balanced the Democratic and Republican parties were during the late nineteenth century and how this balance flowed from differing regional and sociocultural bases.

2. The inability of the political system and a limited national government to respond effectively to the nation's rapid social and economic changes.

3. How the troubled agrarian sector mounted a powerful but unsuccessful challenge to the new directions of American industrial capitalism, and how this confrontation came to a head during the crisis of the 1890s.

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