HIS-2204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: William Jennings Bryan, William Mckinley, Haymarket Affair
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Want to bring together all workers regardless of skill. Also open to women, african americans (not popular in the south) 1886 workers strike and demonstrate 8 hours a day. May 3rd: 4 strikers killed by police. Police fire into crowd; lead raids on labor offices. Labor leaders rounded up; some executed after trial. Public ownership of railroads, banks, telegraph lines. 1896 election: william jennings bryan (democrat supported by populists) vs. william. Bryan supports unions, progressive income tax, farmers. Mckinley- supporter of business and american involvement in overseas affairs. U. s overthrow of hawaiian monarchy 1893, annexed 1898. U. s. s maine destroyed by explosion off the coast of cuba feb. 1898. Teddy roosevelt and rough riders fight in the splendid little war . Americans and cubans fight together against the spanish.
