Agrarian Distress
This word caused the human and animal labor to replaced with machines
What is mechanization?
This industry caused farmers to pay higher shipping costs
What are the railroads?
Farmers wanted to government to build these items to store the excess grain until prices increased
What are silos?
This is another name for the People's Party
What is the Populist Party?
This word is related to farming or agriculture
What is agrarian?
This was a challenge farmers had due to mechanization the means excess or surplus
What is a glut/overproduction?
This industry offered loans to farmers which caused them to pay higher interest rates
What are banks?
This a system in which paper currency would be tied to both silver and gold and the amount of silver coins would be unlimited.
What is bimetallism?
These people made up the majority of the People's Party
Who are the farmers?
This is a political perspective that gives priority to the interests of ordinary people
What is populism?
This was a group created by farmers to educate each other and socialize together
Who are the Patrons of Husbandry/Grangers?
This is the reason banks charged famers higher interest rates
What is being a risky investment due to weather/unpredictable crop production?
The populists wanted the government to wanted to add more money to the economy to cause this
What is inflation?
These were the challenges the farmers faced with the Farmers' Alliance
What are crop failures, low crop prices, rising debt?
This is a rise in prices and a fall in the purchasing value of money
What is inflation?
This political group according to the grangers were only concerned with 'lining their pockets' and supported businesses through their laissez-faire approach
Who were the Bourbon Democrats?
These items were used to store grain in bulk and then load it onto trains or boats for transport to markets across the country and caused railroads to charge farmers an extra fee
What are grain elevators?
This movement wanted the government to go back to minting silver coin
What is the Free Silver Movement?
This cause was mentioned about people who were non-farmers
What is an eight-hour work day?
What is a platform?
This group was not included with the Grangers and they created the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union
Who are African Americans?
This court case limited the rates businesses could charge them
What is Munn v. Illinois?
This 1896 presidential candidate advocated for the Free Silver Movement and promoted many other populist policies.
Who is William Jennings Bryant?
These were the main challenges the People's Party wanted to fix
What is economic inequality, unfair railroad practices, expensive loans, and lack of political power for ordinary people?
This is an organization that is owned and operated by its users for economic activity
What is a cooperative?