1) How and why the federal government attempt to regulate interstate commerce in the late nineteenth century?
2) What efforts did farmers undertake to deal with the economic problems they faced in the late nineteenth century?
3) What was the “silver question”? Why was it so important to so many Americans? How did the major political parties deal with this questions?
4) How dramatically did the Spanish-American War change the relationship between the United States and the rest of the world?
5) What were the main arguments of those who supported U.S. imperialism and those who opposed it?
6) What motivated the European nation’s drive for empire in the late nineteenth century
7) How was colonialism changing in this period?
8) How do the imperial efforts and ambitions of the United States at the end of nineteenth century compare with those of European powers?
9) Did Pulitzer’s World, Heart’s Journal, and their imitators report the news or manufacture it?
10) How did the yellow press influence the public’s perception of the Spanish-American War?
11) How does television and Internet news continue the tradition of yellow journalism? In what other mass media do you see the style and techniques pioneered by the yellow press?
12) What are Kipling’s racialized assumptions about barbarism and civilization? What does the magazine’s publication of “White Man’s Burden” tell us about contemporary attitudes toward race and colonialism?
13) What would advocates of empire have found to like about Kipling’s call? What would opponents of empire have found dangerous about it?
14) How does Kipling’s make his case persuasive? Are his arguments political, economic, emotional? Something else?
15) Comment on Political cartoon on page 476.
16) Please comment on the Election of 1896 Map on Page 464.
17) Page 455 Political Cartoon Reflection.