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The Populist Party

The Populist Party

Paperback

Series: Primary Sources of America's Industrial Society in the 19th

General World History

ISBN10: 0823942848
ISBN13: 9780823942848
Publisher: Rosen Classroom
Published: Dec 30 2003
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.94 Depth: 8.28
Language: English
With the sharp decline of farm prices in the late 1800s, the farmers who felt the effects of a depressed economy put the blame squarely on Eastern financial interests. Continuing hard times for the farmers led to the emergence of farmers' alliances. From these alliances grew the beginnings of the Populist Party, which advocated a number of populist reforms such as a secret ballot, the popular election of U. S. senators, a direct democracy, banking reform, and a graduated income tax. Many of these ideas were later adopted by law or amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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