History of the United States II / Unit 5 USH2 0624 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Election of 1896
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The idea
In eighteen ninety-six the Republican William McKinley, governor of Ohio, faced the Democrat William Jennings Bryan, a congressman from Nebraska.
In practice
The Populists endorsing Bryan but naming the Georgia Populist Tom Watson for vice president.
Where people slip
McKinley won seven point one million votes to Bryan's six point five million, the first popular-vote majority in twenty-four years.
Your place on the trail
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