Ben KavalecSeptember 13, 2007

Populist Part & Hull House

Populist Party grew out of the agrarian revolt that took place after the fall of agricultural prices

following the Panic of 1873 the Populist Party was formed by the member of the Farmers’ Alliance in 1889-

1890. in 1892, the Populist presidential candidate, James B. Weaver, received over one

million votes the party flourished throughout the Southwest and Great Plains in 1896, the Populist presidential candidate, William Jennings Bryan, lost to the

Democrats by 600,000 votes in 1900, the Populist voters backed Bryan again, but he still came up short in 1904 and 1908, the Populists elected Thomas E. Watson, and after these

elections the party ceased to exist

Hull House was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in Chicago it was one of the first settlement houses in the U.S., and eventually became the

largest, growing to 13 buildings the main purpose was to provide social and education opportunities for working

class people in the surrounding neighborhood, mostly immigrants during the first two decades of operation, it attracted many females who later

became prominent figures in the city later, the settlements began to offer services to ameliorate poverty the actual house used to be a mansion, and was bought by Addams to conduct her

experiment by 1920, the it had about 500 settlements Addams ran the house until her death in 1935, but her work is still being

continued to this day