the deflation was an increase in cheap money‚ which is also known as silver coinage. However‚ the Republican party had conservative ideas and wanted to keep the gold standard. So the farmers created the radical‚ agrarian party known as the Populist party. As shown in "The platform of the People’s party‚" the Populists believed in increasing silver to help the farmers. And although the Populists lost the election. no one remembers the "Acceptance speech of William McKinley." The American people remember
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Populism and Progressivism I. The Populist Party A. Background: What changes were taking place in agriculture in the U.S. between 1870 and 1900? 1. Mechanization- machine were replacing people and animals of doing agricultural. Tractors being developed produced right after civil war. Problems: need money to own tractors‚ banks load money to farmer‚ interest. Upkeep and maintain it to keep tractors running. Money to paid mechanic Added to the financial risk of farming‚ already
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declines as white settlers transform the Great Plains. Meanwhile‚ farmers form the Populist movement to address their economic concerns. Next Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century Chapter 5 Changes on the Western Frontier SECTION 1 Cultures Clash on the Prairie SECTION 2 Settling on the Great Plains SECTION 3 Farmers and the Populist Movement Previous Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Next
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significance of Populism: Populists or people’s party members were part of this era’s greatest political insurgency. It evolved from the Farmers’ Alliance‚ where farmers across forty-three states banded together to remedy their condition. The people’s party not only attracted farmers but also included all the “producing classes.” Their lasting legacy comes from the populist platform of 1892 and also from the fact that populism came close to replacing the two already existing parties. Explain how a system
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whites-only activities. Northerners also feared domination by more experienced southern leaders. The Republican Party mostly consisted of Northern farmers who wanted protective tariffs to keep out foreign grain. Democrats‚ who were mostly white southerners‚ wanted low tariffs to hold down the costs of foreign manufactured goods. Despite these differences‚ both parties did favor the governmental regulation of transportation and communications‚ liberal credit policies‚ equitable taxation
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started when I learned the details of the origins of the Populist party. Arising in the late 19th century‚ the Populists were a grass-roots political party comprised mostly of discontented southern and western farmers. Among other issues‚ the Populists were known for two key things: the free‚ unlimited coinage of silver and public ownership of railroads and communications. (www.americanhistory rules.com/unit5/docs/PopulistParty.pdf) The Populist party supported candidate James Weaver in the election of
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was also showing no mercy with grasshoppers‚ floods‚ and major droughts that led to a downward spiral of business that devastated many of the nation’s farmers. As a result of the agricultural depression‚ numerous farms groups‚ most notably the Populist Party‚ arose to fight what the farmers saw as the reasons for the decline in agriculture. During the final twenty years of the nineteenth century‚ many farmers in the United States saw monopolies and trusts‚ railroads‚ and money shortages and the loss
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The Populist movement resulted from Alexander II’s Great Reforms. The purpose of the reforms was to take Russia into the future. 2. Lenin’s Imperialism: the Highest State of Capitalism describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperial colonialism‚ as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits 3. People’s Will (Narodnaia Volia) a newspaper published by the People’s Will revolutionary populist organization
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power of the elite. From the years 1890-1896 the Populist Party grew out of farmers’ demands for the greater good of the people starting with the Omaha Platform‚ and fell do to their fusion with the silver democrats in the 1896 elections. The Populist Party formed by the Farmers’ alliance meeting at the Omaha platform and calling for direct election of senators and enacting state laws by voters that would supposedly help the poor. The Populist platform gained popularity among the south and west
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century‚ around 1880-1900‚ many farmers were experiencing problems and threats to their way of life. The valid complaints of the farmers dealt with the money supply system in America and the large railroad companies. In 1892‚ the platform for the Populist Party was laid down. In this platform it is stated that “the national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders ... thereby adding millions to the burdens of the people.” This is discussing the demonetization of silver and the negative
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