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From the Front Porch to the Front Page: McKinley and Bryan in the 1896 Presidential Campaign (2006) focus on the speeches and rhetoric; Horner, William T. Ohio's Kingmaker: Mark Hanna, Man and Myth (Ohio University Press, 2010.) Jeansonne, Glen (1988). "Goldbugs, Silverites, and Satirists: Caricature and Humor in the Presidential Election of 1896".
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 concept was introduced under the name "System of 1896" by E. E. Schattschneider in 1960, and the numbering scheme was added by political scientists in the mid-1960s. [ 1 ] The period featured a transformation from the issues of the Third Party System , which had focused on the American Civil War , Reconstruction , race, and monetary issues.
A stunning Republican triumph in 1894 nearly wiped out the Democratic Party north of the Mason–Dixon line. In the 1896 election William Jennings Bryan and the radical silverites seized control of the Democratic Party, denounced their own president, and called for a return to Jeffersonian agrarianism (see Jeffersonian democracy).
November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1896: Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan. This is later regarded as a realigning election, starting the Fourth Party System in which Republicans dominate politics until 1913.
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
President-elect Donald Trump won a historic victory in a border county with a 97% Hispanic population on Tuesday night — ending a Democratic voting streak that began in 1896.. Trump’s take ...
1896 New York state election; 1896 South Carolina gubernatorial election; 1896 United States House of Representatives elections; United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1896; United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1896; 1896 United States presidential election