crisis of 1890s
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- Created on: 07-05-19 16:55
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- Crisis of 1890s
- many American's reacted negatively to changes in 19thC
- American farmers= threat to their way of life as becoming more industrial
- being isolated/ forgotton, began to organise as had no direct focus to complain to like urban workers did
- 1890s= too much food, financial ruin, domestic over production due to settlement in west, prices really cheap
- competition from overseas which exasperated by imports coming in from railroads
- changing of America seemed to be a burden, many in debt paying mortgages, tarrifs raised price of manufacture goods that farmers needed to grow crops
- Granger Movment 1870s, Farmers Alliances in 1880s
- try to come together as collective, leader suggets plan where farmesr fight to set their own prices
- plan to store crops in gov owned warehouses and secure loans against value of crops
- plan defeated in congress= didnt want urban workers to fear increase in food prices
- try to come together as collective, leader suggets plan where farmesr fight to set their own prices
- American farmers= threat to their way of life as becoming more industrial
- Populist Party and 1892 election:
- focus on Finance, transportation + Land
- want to ability to borrow money based on their crops from gov
- increase in total aount of circulated money to cause inflation, introduce silver money so farmers can raise prices
- also wanted graduated income tax (radical)
- transport
- call for nationalisation of railroad to limit excess profits made by barons
- called for gov ownership of land, limit it by immigrants
- wanted to free up more land for farmers
- populist party create reaction to changing circumstances bought by urbaniation
- call for reduced immigration, acceptance for 8 hour working day
- wanted to fight social change, didnt want US to transform
- platform 1892 represetns feelings of Americans who felt BIg Business and gov are ignoring their plight
- 1890s= some argue the actions of populists represetn identity crisis
- strugglign to come to terms with a changing America
- 1890s= some argue the actions of populists represetn identity crisis
- Democratic party, Bryan, steal silver coinage idea
- McKinley wins election 1896= republican fear reovlutionary prospect of silver money, urban workers go to him to keep food prices down, immigrants don#'t like protestant tone of Byran
- republican's seem to embrace a modern version of US and make populists and democrats seem anarchists
- focus on Finance, transportation + Land
- did gov want to listen to anyone other than Big Business?
- problems of urban poor, corruption and economic reugulation and trusts, and how gov would deal with these issues faced by changes of US, issues not addressed until progressive era
- many American's reacted negatively to changes in 19thC
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