PPT-Populist (People’s) Party

SWBAT Examine the Populist Party platform amp describe how the platform illustrated politics economics amp culture during the Gilded Age Do Now Practicing Historical Thinking Skills After reading the excerpt from Jane Addams Twenty Years at Hull House complete the two questions that follow with your partner. THE PLIGHT OF THE FARMERS. 1870s-1880s. Farmers were becoming a minority in the USA.. The numbers of farmers declined from 60% of the population in 1860 to less than 37% in 1900.. They experienced falling prices.. Americans seek reforms in the 20. th. Century. **In response to social problems created by. industrialization, urbanization, and immigration,. a movement called . Progressivism. emerged to bring. about social justice. Many of these reforms still exist . Mr. Daniel Lazar. Important Themes in this Lecture. Jeffersonian vs. Hamiltonian Visions. The Ideal and Symbolic Appeal of The West. Role . of Government in Economic . Stimulus. Class Consciousness and Class . Notes:. Chapter 5 Section 3. I.) . Farmers Face Problems. Crop Prices Fall. Farmer Mortgage Farms to Buy More Land. Good Farm Land Scarce. Banks Begin to Foreclose. Railroads Charge High Shipping Prices. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How did farmers respond to the problems they faced in the late . nineteenth century?. TEKS and Objectives. We will…. (3A) analyze . the . beginnings of . Populism. (5C). . evaluate . Marley Morris. St Antony’s College, Oxford. 12 November 2013. Leaving aside the committed radicals, we focused on: . The reluctant radicals . who . have. cast a vote for a populist party but do not ‘feel close’ to those parties (much less than committed core voters do). . Sod home of John and Marget Bakken, Milton, N.D., circa 1895. . The Homestead Act of 1862. The Homestead Act gave . public. lands (lands owned by the national government) to American . citizens. All cartoons and text from: http://history.missouristate.edu/WRMiller/Populism/pCartoon/index.htm. "Here Lies Prosperity". . "The People to Plutocracy". . Farmers and laborers (especially miners) proved to be the Populist Party's strongest supporters.  In this cartoon, the fruits of their labor are being stolen by financial interests through foreclosures, interest, rents, etc.. Women played a prominent role in the Populist Movements speakers and organizers. Convinced that rich industrialist and bankers had a stranglehold on the government . Like the Grangers before them, the Populists wanted the government to take a larger role (to end oppression, injustice and poverty). The Presidents in the 1890s. Grover Cleveland (1837 – 1908). 24. th. 1893 - 1897. William McKinley (1843 – 1901). 25. th. 1897 - 1901. Benjamin Harrison (1833 – 1901). 23. rd. 1889 - 1893. The Nature of the 1890s. How did farmers respond to their problems?. 1870-1890. : extension of farming to the Great Plains and the . greater use of machinery led to an abundance of crops. .. More crops drove prices down . but the cost of running a farm remained high.. Problems . farmers faced . in the late 1800s?. 1. ) . Deflation. Due to overproduction – prices plummeted. * . Bad news for farmers because they received less money . for their . crops. . - . The price of wheat fell from $2.00 a bushel in 1867 to $0.68 a bushel in 1887.. The Muckrakers. During the Progressive Era, journalists and other writers began dramatizing the need for reform. Their sensational reporting uncovered many ills afflicting America. Theodore Roosevelt called these writers . van der . Weide. Isabelle . Klaver. Camille . Collados. Carry, E.P. INTROSPECTION (2021) . https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/443252788310563279/. . TABLE OF CONTENT . Editors’ Letter p.2. Quiz p.3.