HIST 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: William Jennings Bryan, Gold Standard Act, Free Silver
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Farmer"s revolt: falling agricultural prices, too much cotton in the market prices went down, blamed railroad companies, federal fiscal policies, and interst rates by bankers. Farmers" alliance: farmers sought to remedy their condition attempted to improve rural conditions by the cooperative financing and marketing of crops. The populist platform of 1892: long list of proposals to restore democracy, tried to forge relationships between black and white farmers many white populists were landowning, many blacks were tenants. Redeemers: the coalition of merchants, planters, and business entrepreneurs who dominate the. Southern cities, institutions supported the growth of a black middle class colleges, churches, etc. Not until 1914 did northern employers open industrial jobs to blacks (before didn"t so when they emigrated they ended up as unskilled laborers) 1890s = major shift in terms of immigration 3. 5 million newcomers looking for industrial jobs. Immigration restriction league: called for reducing immigration by barring the illiterate from entering the united states.
