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U S Political Million Members
1,201 wordsIn spite of their remarkable progress, 19 th-century American farmers experienced recurring periods of hardship. Several basic factors were involved -- soil exhaustion, the vagaries of nature, a decline in self-sufficiency, and the lack of adequate legislative protection and aid. Perhaps most important, however, was over-production. Along with the mechanical improvements which greatly increased yield per hectare, the amount of land under cultivation grew rapidly throughout the second half of the...
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Economic And Social State And Local
870 wordsEven more energetic a sphere of historical controversy than that over the Populists is the historians' argument over the Progressive movement. The Progressives were a heterogeneous collection of reformers. Active chiefly in the nation's cities and the urban mass media (and in the legislatures of such states as Wisconsin and New York), the Progressives carried out efforts to reform American society and governance on all fronts. They numbered among their ranks social Progressives (such as Jane Add...
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Whats The Matter With Kansas
1,238 wordsWhats the Matter with Kansas? The economical and class-consciousness conflict between social classes of America in general and Kansas in particular becomes the issue of the day, claims Thomas Frank, the author of a well-known book Whats the matter with Kansas? According to the author, the conflict between poor farmers and workers versus lawyers, advocates, bankers, and big corporations gradually turns into confrontation between hard-working devotees of America and decadent Liberals, who scoff at...
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Populist And Progressive Movements In The United States
602 wordsPopulist and Progressive Movements in the United States American Progressivism refers to a political and social movement in the beginning of the 20 th century. This movement appeared as a response to changes caused by the industrial revolution in the United States. Later, progressivism addresses such issues as social justice and environment. Progressivism was largely a bipartisan effort led by William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette and William Howard Taft ...
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19 Th Century Peoples Party
1,419 wordsFeeding The Wolf John B. Rayner was one of the most prominent leaders of Peoples party in the South during the last decade of 19 th century. His figure is being largely forgotten now and the main reason for this is that, even during his lifetime, he had lost all credibility for easily switching his political ideas, in order to please public. This approach proved to be failure only historical prospective gives us a proper insight on the importance of any politician. According to this approach, Ra...
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U S Political Million Members
1,196 wordsThe World of the Farmer In spite of their remarkable progress, 19 th-century American farmers experienced recurring periods of hardship. Several basic factors were involved soil exhaustion, the vagaries of nature, a decline in self-sufficiency, and the lack of adequate legislative protection and aid. Perhaps most important, however, was over-production. Along with the mechanical improvements which greatly increased yield per hectare, the amount of land under cultivation grew rapidly throughout t...
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William Jennings Bryan Quot And Quot
1,528 wordsIn Farmers Alliance Farmers Alliance In the 1880 s, as drought hit the wheat-growing areas of the Great Plains and prices for Southern cotton sunk to new lows, many tenant farmers fell into deep debt. This exacerbated long-held grievances against railroads, lenders, grain-elevator owners, and others with whom farmers did business. By the early 1890 s, as the depression worsened, some industrial workers shared these farm families views on labor and the trusts. By the end of the 1880 s, farmers ha...
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Wise Decisions Populist Party
726 wordsThe movement was brought about due to financial and natural disasters which affected the farming community. The country was dealing with bad weather in the late 19 th century. In the early 1880 s there were severe droughts, while the winter of 1886 - 1887, had a great deal of blizzards. These national disasters led to a loss of crop and profit, it soon turned into debt. Due to a great amount of debt that the farmers acquired over the years, they were forced to sell their farms to big business. T...
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Nineteenth Century Populist Party
604 wordsThe Populist Party, a third political party that originated in America in the latter part of the nineteenth century, derived as a result of farmer discontent and economic distress. This was caused by the countrys shift from an agricultural American life to one in which industrialists dominated the nations development. The public felt as if they were being cheated by these robber barons, a term given to those who took advantage of the middle and lower classes. As a result of this significant tran...
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