HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Unitec Institute Of Technology
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Immigration: these revolve around the fear of the erosion of anglo protestant america. Most farmers do not have sufficient income to keep up with this. This included paying mortgages on their farm land; foreclosures. Thought that the railroad companies were working against them as well; There was a system whereby they charged much more money to ship for a minimal regulation at this time short distance than a long distance. Nationally based alliance emerged; farmers are suffering but the new urban labor force is also suffering so they reach out and create a coalition. Depression 1893-1897: most severe depression experienced to this point, the more radical the populists become; the more middle class fears them; fears of revolutionizing effects, the democratic party. Along the domestic turmoil was a growing concern about its place in the world. Foreign policy had largely taken a back seat since the civil war. Despite this the idea of manifest destiny; divine expansion; still prominent.
