Website Summaries
Declaration of Causes
The government of United States declared Texas a free sovereign and independent state. Following December 1845 the state was acknowledged officially into the conferential union. Acceptance and strong ties with commonwealth were enhanced by its geographical position and associations such as Negro slavery. The federal government has administered the various and pretenses to exclude civilians or the southern states from the territories owned by the states in the Pacific Ocean. The infamous combinations of incendiaries and outlaws have been permitted in the Northern States and Kansas territory to trample upon law and war upon the property and live of southern citizens. Harassment and insecurity have been experienced due to the federal government failed to protect people and property. The secession of six of slave-holding states Texas had to quit from North or join hands with the Southern states.
The Pullman Boycott
Pullman company’s receipts fell drastically as a result of drying up of the outside orders. The manager, George Pullman directly responded by changing the program, reducing working hours and cutting wages. Employees claimed that wages were cut large percentage, but policies, as well as shares increment, approved this. Rise on the rent made the residents suffer and incur a significant challenge in providing families’ basic needs. The Eugene V. Debs’s Railway Union brought hopes to the discouraged Pullman’s workers. After the failure of Debs seeking convention with Pullman’s company, the case was taken to the court where the Attorney general condemned boycotting. Debs reacted bitterly towards court’s opinion and declared that sympathy towards Pullman workers was the cause of the crime of American Railway Union.
The Republican National Convention
In 1896, Republicans entered the campaign with high hopes of winning and ready to appeal return of Republican prosperity. McKinley was the famous contester of the party who had big hopes of having the victory over the presidential seat. The proper management of the party by Marcus Hanna facilitated the success of the party during the nominations. He is an advanced and industrious strategist who had a good relationship with the workers and a dealer in the coal and iron industries. The party attracted many followers from their promising manifestos regarding maintenance of gold standard as well as high protective tariffs to promote and protect employment and salaries. McKinley’s death was a disappointment to Mark Hanna he was the most malicious, carnal, and inexorable autocrat of labor and crusher of its organizations in existence.
Frederick Jackson Turner
Jackson Turner played a significant role if in the establishment of the foundation for the modern history of American study and presented a leading edge thesis. He contributed by arguing that frontier past elaborate the best distinguishing United States history. He was successful through the use of appropriate strategies for providing his thesis as analysis and warning to the future. However, his frontier thesis had ignored the Indian people who were part of the United States nation. Critics have aroused on further analysis finding turner’s thesis uncertain due to its application to many different places and eras to be useful. Turner’s followers accuse the opponents of misleading an unsophisticated political precision for excellent scholarship in their mission to second opinion only the fate and pessimism of the Western historical.
