WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Andrew Carnegie
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John D. Rockefeller
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J. P. Morgan
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -McKinley was supported by middle-class and wealthy voters, urban laborers, and prosperous farmers; this coalition would keep the Republicans mostly in power until the 1930s. McKinley’s wooing of the Midwest would pay ample dividends in the years to come, as it remained solidly Republican in most years until 1932.
Detailed explanation-2: -William McKinley (Republican) defeated William Jennings Bryan (Democratic/Populist) in the 1896 presidential election.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896. In his address, Bryan supported “free silver” (i.e. bimetallism), which he believed would bring the nation prosperity.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but collapsed after it nominated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 United States presidential election.