WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
GILDED AGE POLITICS
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James G. Blaine
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William McKinley
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William Jennings Bryan
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James Weaver
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Detailed explanation-1: -William McKinley (Republican) defeated William Jennings Bryan (Democratic/Populist) in the 1896 presidential election.
Detailed explanation-2: -Elected President Bryan then won the nomination of the Populist Party, which had won several states in 1892 and shared many of Bryan’s policies. In opposition to Bryan, some conservative Bourbon Democrats formed the National Democratic Party and nominated Senator John M. Palmer.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1896, William Jennings Bryan ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States. Bryan, a former Democratic congressman from Nebraska, gained his party’s presidential nomination in July of that year after electrifying the Democratic National Convention with his Cross of Gold speech.