HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

FROM THE EARLIEST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA TO THE PRESENT TIME

BY
E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY

With 650 Illustrations and Maps


VOLUME V.

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1903 AND 1905, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

CONTENTS

PERIOD VI
EXPANSION
1888–1902

CHAPTER I. DRIFT AND DYE IN LAW—MAKING
General Revision and Extension of StateConstitutions.—Introduction of Australian Ballot in VariousStates.—Woman Suffrage in the West.—Negro Suffrage in theSouth.—Educational Qualification.—“The MississippiPlan.”—South Carolina Registration Act.—The“Grandfather” Clause in LouisianaConstitution.—Alabama Suffrage.

CHAPTER II. THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1888
Tariff Reform Democratic Creed.—Republican Banner, HighProtection.—Republican Convention at Chicago.—Nomination ofBenjamin Harrison for President.—Biographical Sketch of BenjaminHarrison.—Political Strength in the West.—National Association ofDemocratic Clubs and Republican League.—Civil Service as an Issue inCampaign.—Democratic Blunders.—The “Murchison”Letter.—Lord Sackville-West Given His Passports.—Use of Money inCampaign by Both Political Parties.—Tariff the MainIssue.—Trusts.—“British Free Trade.”—Popular Voteat the Election.

CHAPTER III. MR. HARRISON’S ADMINISTRATION
Steamship Subsidies Advocated.—Chinese Immigration and the GearyLaw.—Immigration Restriction.—Thomas B. Reed InstitutesParliamentary Innovations in the House of Representatives.—Counting aQuorum.—The “Force Bill” in Congress.—Resentment of theSouth.—Defeated in Senate.—The “Billion DollarCongress” and the Dependent Pensions Act.—PensionPayments.—The McKinley Tariff Act and “Blaine”Reciprocity.—International Copyright Act Becomes a Law.—Mr. Blaineas Secretary of State.—Murder by “Mafia” Italians Causes Riotin New Orleans.—The Itata at San Diego, California.—The“Barrundia” Incident.—U. S. Assumes Sovereignty Over Tutuila,Samoa.—Congressional Campaign, 1890.

CHAPTER IV. NON-POLITICAL EVENTS OF PRESIDENT HARRISON’S TERM
Commemorative Exercises of the Centennial Anniversary of Washington’sInauguration as President.—Verse Added to Song“America.”—Whittier Composes an Ode.—Unveiling of LeeMonument.—Sectional Feeling Allayed.—The Louisiana Lottery PutDown.—The Opening of Oklahoma.—Sum Paid Seminole Indians.—TheMessiah Craze of the Indians.—The Johnstown Flood.—The Steel Strikeat Homestead, Pa.—Congressional Investigation.—Riot in TennesseeOver Convict Labor in the Mines.—Mormonism.—America Aids Russia inFamine.

CHAPTER V. THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
Preparation for the World’s Fair.—Columbus Day

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