The Populist party started out as a grassroots movement in Texas known as the Farmers’ Alliance that felt unrepresented in politics. They were against the demonetization of silver and evolved into a somewhat major political party during the 1890’s but in the long run merged with the democratic party. They were first known as The Grange and speaking in short term they had failed to achieve most of their goals. The Populists had many main goals which were to re-monetize silver, abolish national banks, gradual income tax, 8 hour work days, become a permanent major political party, and put a populist in the presidential office. The 1900 Gold Standard Act stopped the silver movement and showed America’s dedication to gold. Many tried to abolish
