History of the United States Volume V Part 1

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

by E. Benjamin Andrews.

VOLUME V.

NEW YORK.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

1912.

CONTENTS

PERIOD VI

EXPANSION

1888--1902

CHAPTER I. DRIFT AND DYE IN LAW--MAKING

General Revision and Extension of State Const.i.tutions.

Introduction of Australian Ballot in Various States.

Woman Suffrage in the West.

Negro Suffrage in the South.

Educational Qualification.

"The Mississippi Plan."

South Carolina Registration Act.

The "Grandfather" Clause in Louisiana Const.i.tution.

Alabama Suffrage.

CHAPTER II. THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1888

Tariff Reform Democratic Creed.

Republican Banner, High Protection.

Republican Convention at Chicago.

Nomination of Benjamin Harrison for President.

Biographical Sketch of Benjamin Harrison.

Political Strength in the West.

National a.s.sociation of Democratic Clubs and Republican League.

Civil Service as an Issue in Campaign.

Democratic Blunders.

The "Murchison" Letter.

Lord Sackville-West Given His Pa.s.sports.

Use of Money in Campaign by Both Political Parties.

Tariff the Main Issue.

Trusts.

"British Free Trade."

Popular Vote at the Election.

CHAPTER III. MR. HARRISON'S ADMINISTRATION

Steams.h.i.+p Subsidies Advocated.

Chinese Immigration and the Geary Law.

Immigration Restriction.

Thomas B. Reed Inst.i.tutes Parliamentary Innovations in the House of Representatives.

Counting a Quorum.

The "Force Bill" in Congress.

Resentment of the South.

Defeated in Senate.

The "Billion Dollar Congress" and the Dependent Pensions Act.

Pension Payments.

The McKinley Tariff Act and "Blaine" Reciprocity.

International Copyright Act Becomes a Law.

Mr. Blaine as Secretary of State.

Murder by "Mafia" Italians Causes Riot in New Orleans.

The Itata at San Diego, California.

The "Barrundia" Incident.

U. S. a.s.sumes Sovereignty Over Tutuila, Samoa.

Congressional Campaign, 1890.

CHAPTER IV. NON-POLITICAL EVENTS OF PRESIDENT HARRISON'S TERM

Commemorative Exercises of the Centennial Anniversary of Was.h.i.+ngton's Inauguration as President.

Verse Added to Song "America."

Whittier Composes an Ode.

Unveiling of Lee Monument.

Sectional Feeling Allayed.

The Louisiana Lottery Put Down.

The Opening of Oklahoma.

Sum Paid Seminole Indians.

The Messiah Craze of the Indians.

The Johnstown Flood.

The Steel Strike at Homestead, Pa.

Congressional Investigation.

Riot in Tennessee Over Convict Labor in the Mines.

Mormonism.

America Aids Russia in Famine.

CHAPTER V. THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION

Preparation for the World's Fair.

Columbus Day in Chicago.

In New York.

Presidential Election of 1892.

The Campaign.

Cleveland and Harrison Nominated by the Respective Parties.

Populism.