chement
Establishment of harmonious relations.

recreant
Coward, craven, unfaithful, disloyal, apostate, traitor, renegade.

recrudescence
Recurrence of symptoms after a period of improvement.

redoubtable
To be feared; formidable; commanding respect, reverence.

reprobated, reprobation
Depraved, unprincipled, wicked; beyond hope of salvation.

Scylla
Female sea monster who lived in a cave opposite Charybdis and devoured
sailors. See: between Scylla and Charybdis.

truckling
Submit tamely; grovel, bow, concede, kowtow.

unwonted
Usual; rare.

[End Transcriber's Notes]

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

[Illustration: Portrait.]
From a photograph copyright, 1899, by Pach Bros., N. Y.
President William McKinley.

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
[Illustration: Scribner's Logo.]

CONTENTS

PERIOD VI

EXPANSION

1888--1902

CHAPTER I. DRIFT AND DYE IN LAW--MAKING

General Revision and Extension of State Constitutions.
Introduction of Australian Ballot in Various States.
Woman Suffrage in the West.
Negro Suffrage in the South.
Educational Qualification.
"The Mississippi Plan."
South Carolina Registration Act.
The "Grandfather" Clause in Louisiana Constitution.
Alabama Suffrage.

CHAPTER II. THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1888

Tariff Reform Democratic Creed.
Republican Banner, High Protection.
Republican Convention at Chicago.
Nomination of Benjamin Harrison for President.
Biographical Sketch of Benjamin Harrison.
Political Strength in the West.
National Association of Democratic Clubs and Republican League.
Civil Service as an Issue in Campaign.
Democratic Blunders.
The "Murchison" Letter.
Lord Sackville-West Given His Passports.
Use of Money in Campaign by Both Political Parties.
Tariff the Main Issue.
Trusts.
"British Free Trade."
Popular Vote at the Election.

CHAPTER III. MR. HARRISON'S ADMINISTRATION

Steamship Subsidies Advocated.
Chinese Immigration and the Geary Law.
Immigration Restriction.
Thomas B. Reed Institutes Parliamentary Innovations
in the House of Representatives.
Counting a Quorum.
The "Force Bill" in Congr