After todays lesson students will be able to Describe the main issues that led to the rise of the Populist Party and their platform Essential Skills Demonstrate an understanding of concepts ID: 694430
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Rise of populism Slide2
Today’s objectives
After today’s lesson, students will be able to…
Describe the main issues that led to the rise of the Populist Party and their platform
Essential Skills:
Demonstrate an understanding of conceptsSlide3
Group documents
Take some time to read your document with your group and answer the questions
Be prepared to share your answers with your classmates and what your document was aboutSlide4
Farmers unite
In the late 1800’s a vicious economic cycle was especially harmful to farmers
Prices for their products was falling while the cost of seeds and tools was increasing
Banks were foreclosing on farms and loans went unpaid
Railroads were charging excessive rates for transporting farm goods to marketsSlide5
Farmers demand cheaper money
After the Civil War, the economy was in a
Deflationary
period where there was relatively little money in circulation
Deflation forced prices down which helped consumers but hurt the farmers prices for their products also decreased
Deflation also required farmers to repay loans with dollars worth more than the dollars borrowedSlide6
Decreasing wheat prices
YEAR
BUSHELS
GROWN (millions)
PRICES PER BUSHEL (dollars)
1866
170
$2.06
1875
254
$1.04
1880
502
$0.92
1885
400
$0.77
1890
449
$0.84
1895
542
$0.51
1900
599
$0.62Slide7
Wonderful wizard of
oz
and the Election of 1896Slide8
The wizard of
oz
The Emerald City, where everything is colored green represents Washington, D.C.Slide9
The wizard of
oz
The Wizard of Oz, who remains invisible, represents President William McKinley, a politician that can change forms in the book and who tricked the citizens of Oz into believing he is all powerful. Slide10
The Wizard of
oz
The only way to get to the Emerald is via a Yellow Brick Road, the color of gold bricks.Slide11
The wizard of
oz
The Wicked Witches
East: Wall Street
bankersin
NY, led by JP Morgan
West: Represents mine owners and western bankersSlide12
The wizard of
oz
In the much-beloved film version made in the 1930s, Dorothy, the all-American girl from the heartland of Kansas, wears ruby slippers
But in the book, her slippers are silver, supposedly representing the money preferred by ordinary peopleSlide13
The wizard of
oz
Scarecrow
– farmers, agricultural workers, ignorant of many city things but honest and able to understand things with little education. A strong supporter of Dorothy (Populism)Slide14
The wizard of
oz
The Tin Man
– industrial workers, a woodchopper whose entire body has been replaced with metal parts, thus dehumanized by machinery and in need of money (oil).Slide15
The wizard of
oz
Cowardly Lion – William Jennings Bryan, a famous politician and Populist Presidential candidate in 1896 and 1900 for monetary reform and a terrific orator (roar). Bryan was attacked as being somewhat cowardly for not supporting the US war with Spain. As a Populist Presidential candidate he sought to go to the capitol city