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Birth of PopulismTopic 2.4
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Financial Panic • Nationwide
economic depression. As the economy worsens, people rush to banks to withdraw money. Banks then call in loans in order to remain afloat. Many of these loans are for family farms under the Homestead Act
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Tariffs • To protect farmers, Congress enacts tariffs on foreign crops. Many countries enact tariffs of their own, driving down demand (and the overall price) for American crops worldwide
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The Money Issue – Inflation vs. Deflation
• Inflation is an increase in the money supply, and decreases the value of money. Inflation helps debtors and sellers (Farmers).
• Deflation is a decrease in the money supply, and increases the value of money. Deflation helps lenders (Bankers).
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All US currency used backed by specie. The Bimetallic Standard meant that we issued coinage in both gold and silver, keeping the money supply high (inflation)
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Gold Standard - 1873 • Congress put the US
on the Gold Standard, decreasing the money supply
• This pleases financially conservative (Republican) “Gold Bugs”, and angers the “Silverites” (farmers, miners, debtors)
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Farmers Fight (back)!
Droughts, Floods, Blizzards, Panics, Tariffs, Deflation and the Gold Standard all hurt Farmers
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The Grange – 1877
• Formed to help farmers set up cooperatives
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Farmers Alliances
“Raise less corn and more
hell!”
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Farmers Alliances
Help farmers fight the railroad and set up state agricultural commissions
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The Populists• The farmer’s movement
culminates in the formation of the Populist Party.
• Composed of: Members of the Grange and Farmers Alliances, mining interests, debtors, Silverites, black and white farmers and some Democrats
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Populist Party Platform
1. Increased Circulation of money
2. Unlimited minting of silver
3. Progressive income tax
4. Government ownership of communication and transportation systems
Oliver H. Kelley
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• Democrats nominate William Jennings Bryan for President.
• Bryan barnstorms the country campaigning for president and delivering speeches.
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• “Cross of Gold”– Incredibly popular
speech– Made it for years
afterwards
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“Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
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Election of 1896 Bryan carries Southern and Western states, but loses more
heavily populated Eastern industrial centers. Bryan loses the election and the Populist movement declines
in the coming years, but their effect continues as Populists join the Progressive Movement.