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DISSENT, DEPRESSION, AND WAR

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DISSENT, DEPRESSION, AND WAR

1890 –1900

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> Why was the decade of the 1890s such a turbulent time in U.S. history? Chapter 20 explores the political and economic conflicts of the 1890s through thelenses of diverse groups of Americans. It also examines the major shift in U.S. foreign policy in the last decade of the nineteenth century.

Figure false: The Unemployed — Scene at a Country Railway Station. The Graphic, Chicago, September 9, 1893. Chicago History Museum.

> Why did American farmers organize alliances in the late nineteenth century?

> What led to the labor wars of the 1890s?

> How were women involved in late-nineteenth-century politics?

> How did economic problems affect American politics in the 1890s?

> Why did the United States largely abandon its isolationist foreign policy in the 1890s?

> Conclusion: What was the connection between domestic strife and foreign policy?