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First Battle (1897), speeches from 1896 campaign. online; National Democratic Committee (1896). Campaign Text-book of the National Democratic Party. National Democratic committee. Democratic campaign text Book. This is the handbook of the Gold Democrats and strongly opposed Bryan. Chandler, William E. (August 1896). "Issues and Prospects of the ...
1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech; 1896 – Gold discovered in the Yukon's Klondike; 1896 – Utah becomes a state; 1896 - Henry Ford builds his first automobile; 1896 – U.S. presidential election, 1896: William McKinley elected president and Garret A. Hobart vice president
The 1896 United States elections elected the 55th United States Congress. Republicans won control of the presidency and maintained control of both houses of Congress. The election marked the end of the Third Party System and the start of the Fourth Party System , as Republicans would generally dominate politics until the 1930 elections .
The 1896 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election . Voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College , which selected the president and vice president .
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 is a history of the United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, written by Richard White and published by Oxford University Press in 2017 in a hardback edition and in 2019 in a paperback edition, and by Audible Studios as an audiobook in 2018.
In order to achieve statehood, however, the LDS Church disbanded the "People's Party" in 1891 and most LDS members moved towards the Democratic Party. The 1896 election in Utah was dominated by the influence of silver mine owners, who overwhelmingly supported Democrat/ Populist William Jennings Bryan because he advocated coinage of free silver ...
The Republican platform of 1896 favored the gold standard but left the door open to free coinage of silver, it also supported acquisition of Hawaii and parts of the Danish West Indies, favored a canal across Central America, naval expansion, sympathized with revolutionaries in Cuba and Armenia, wanted exclusion of all illiterate immigrants, applauded gains in women's rights and pledged "equal ...
The Yaqui Uprising, also called the Nogales Uprising, was an armed conflict that took place in the Mexican state of Sonora and the American state of Arizona over several days in August 1896. In February, the Mexican revolutionary Lauro Aguirre drafted a plan to overthrow the government of President Porfirio Díaz.