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Woes
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1)Prices fell as demand decreased after civil war
2) high rail-road rates/ monopolies (ICC) interstate commerce commision helped 3. expensive and complicated machinery- overproduction 4. Weather complications-floods & droughts |
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Grange movement
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1. Oliver hudson Kelly- organized patrons of husbandary & bightendull farm lines with picnics, dances, lectures through local "granges"
2. Granges had lodge buildings 3. granger laws- laws benefitting farmers |
a farmers social club
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what was the most famous granger law?
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Munn vs. Illinois (1877)
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what was Munn vs. Illinois about?
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supreme court said state law has authority to regulate prices on private property (big grain elevators) if it is devoted to public use.
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Most famous granger law
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what was the Alliance movement
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1. Charles W. macune was the first to form southern alliance in Texas in 1875
2. Cooperatives to save $ by buying large amounts of seed and fertilizer & buying and operating their own grain elevators. |
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Who formed the first southern Alliance in texas in 1875?
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Charles W. Macune
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The Alliance movement was an farmer owned cooperative, where they hoped to save $ by...
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* Buying Large amounts of seed and fertilizer
* Buying and operating their own Grain elevators |
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Who was Mary E. Lease?
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Kansas Radical who supported farmers in the "Alliance Summer" of 1890.
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Who is famous for the saying
"Raise less Corn and more Hell!" ??? |
Mary E. Lease
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What was the Populist Party known as?
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"the Peoples Party"
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why was the populist party aka "people party"?
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Because the populist party grew out of a small party called the Kansas peoples party.
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who was Ignatius Donnelly?
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he was an early Populist Party leader who proposed agenda: put gov't back into the hands of the "people"
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How did Ignatius Donnelly wish to put back gov't back into the hands of the people?
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* back curency with silver
* Increase $ supply- to help farmers get out of debt * direct election of senators * Income tax amendment * Gov't ownership of RR, Telephone, Telegraph |
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What was the Income Tax amendment proposed by Ignatius Donnelly?
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it was a graduated scale to fight monopolies (graduated scale- based on how much $ they make)
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Describe the election of 1896
Candidates/ political views/ who won? |
Candidates: William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) & William McKinley (Republican)
* William Mckinley supports the gold standard * William Jennings Bryan supports Silver standard & Farmers Winner: William mckinley |
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tell me a lil about William Jennings Bryans and his campaign running for president?
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*Bryan was a Nebraska Congressmen who supports silver standard & farmers.
* Famous for his "Cross of gold speech"(biblical imagery) * Populist aslo nominated him * he was called: "the great commoner" for simplifying problems to the masses * Opponents called him "hayseed Radical" |
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What did William Jennings Bryan opponents call him?
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Opponents called him "hayseed Radical"
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why was William Jennings Bryan called "the great commoner"?
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* he was called: "the great commoner" for simplifying problems to the masses
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Bryan was a congressmen of what state?
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nebraska
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Tell me a lil about William Mckinley as candidate for the presidency.
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He was originally an Ohio Congressmen who supports the gold standard
* he used the "Front Porch" campaign * His brilliant campagn manager was Mark Hanna. |
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Who was William mckinleys campagn manager?
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mark Hanna
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What is "whats the matter with Kansas" ?
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* Essay by william Allan White
criticizing populists for economic decline in Kansas * it was distributed throughout the nation- helped Mckinley |
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what were the results of the election of 1896?
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* Mckinley beats Bryan
* Urban areas and Industrial Northeast saw Bryan as too radical * Mckinley beats Bryan again in 1900 * Populism declines on National level after 1900 |
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How did urban and Industrial north east areas begin to view Bryan?
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They viewed him as too radical
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