9.  Give the terms of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.  What was its immediate effect?

10.  Name some of the minor parties.  Enumerate the reforms they advocated.

11.  Describe briefly the experiments of the farmers in politics.

12.  How did industrial conditions increase unrest?

13.  Why were conservative men disturbed in the early nineties?

14.  Explain the Republican position in 1896.

15.  Give Mr. Bryan’s doctrines in 1896.  Enumerate the chief features of the Democratic platform.

16.  What were the leading measures adopted by the Republicans after their victory in 1896?

=Research Topics=

=Greenbacks and Resumption.=—­Dewey, Financial History of the United States (6th ed.), Sections 122-125, 154, and 378; MacDonald, Documentary Source Book of American History, pp. 446, 566; Hart, American History Told by Contemporaries, Vol.  IV, pp. 531-533; Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol.  VIII, pp. 97-101.

=Demonetization and Coinage of Silver.=—­Dewey, Financial History, Sections 170-173, 186, 189, 194; MacDonald, Documentary Source Book, pp. 174, 573, 593, 595; Hart, Contemporaries, Vol.  IV, pp. 529-531; Rhodes, History, Vol.  VIII, pp. 93-97.

=Free Silver and the Campaign of 1896.=—­Dewey, National Problems (American Nation Series), pp. 220-237, 314-328; Hart, Contemporaries, Vol.  IV, pp. 533-538.

=Tariff Revision.=—­Dewey, Financial History, Sections 167, 180, 181, 187, 192, 196; Hart, Contemporaries, Vol.  IV, pp. 518-525; Rhodes, History, Vol.  VIII, pp. 168-179, 346-351, 418-422.

=Federal Regulation of Railways.=—­Dewey, National Problems, pp. 91-111; MacDonald, Documentary Source Book, pp. 581-590; Hart, Contemporaries, Vol.  IV, pp. 521-523; Rhodes, History, Vol.  VIII, pp. 288-292.

=The Rise and Regulation of Trusts.=—­Dewey, National Problems, pp. 188-202; MacDonald, Documentary Source Book, pp. 591-593.

=The Grangers and Populism.=—­Paxson, The New Nation (Riverside Series), pp. 20-37, 177-191, 208-223.

=General Analysis of Domestic Problems.=—­Syllabus in History (New York State, 1920), pp. 137-142.

CHAPTER XX

AMERICA A WORLD POWER (1865-1900)

It has now become a fashion, sanctioned by wide usage and by eminent historians, to speak of America, triumphant over Spain and possessed of new colonies, as entering the twentieth century in the role of “a world power,” for the first time.  Perhaps at this late day, it is useless to protest against the currency of the idea.  Nevertheless, the truth is that from the fateful moment in March, 1775, when Edmund Burke unfolded to his colleagues in the British Parliament the resources of an invincible America, down to the settlement at Versailles in 1919 closing the drama of the World War, this nation has been a world power, influencing by its example, by its institutions, by its wealth, trade, and arms the course of international affairs.  And it should be said also that neither in the field of commercial enterprise nor in that of diplomacy has it been wanting in spirit or ingenuity.