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A 3 page research paper that discusses the Populism movement in American history, focusing on the rise and fall of the Populist Party, its successes, failures and continuing influence. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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giving more power to the people, rather than to the federal government (Blakenhorn, 2007). An official Populist movement began in the late nineteenth century, culminating in the formulation of the
Populist Party, one of the handful of political parties that have been able to achieve inroads in the domination of the Republican and Democratic parties. The roots of the Populist
movement lay in the dissatisfaction of farmers (Agricultural discontent, 2007). As Western farmers increased their production of wheat and corn dramatically, the prices they were paid for their crops
and cattle dropped, as competition from foreign producers increased (Agricultural discontent, 2007). This was complicated by the way in which the money supply for the country was handled at the
time. Conservative interests argued that the U.S. should retain the gold standard and limit the amount of minted coins (Agricultural discontent, 2007). Granges, which had originally been organized as a
way for farmers and their families to socialize, afforded farmers an organizational framework to organize politically (Agricultural discontent, 2007). The farmers were joined by others, such as small business
owners, who shared their problems and they began sponsoring laws at the local and state level in the 1870s and 80s and by 1980, a variety of diverse groups officially
formed a political party, the "Peoples Party or Populists" (Agricultural discontent, 2007). While the Populists goals were basically to establish a "more equitable distribution of wealth" in the U.S. and
also to establish a more "humanistic social system" (Agricultural discontent, 2007). Political conservatives saw them as a threat to the free market system, which dictates that if the supply of
a commodity greatly exceeds the demand, the results are for the price to go down and, in their opinion, this should occur, no matter how disastrous the results for the
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