HISTORY 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: William Jennings Bryan, Grover Cleveland, Economic Nationalism
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1892 macune retires from the allliances: never believed in creating a third political party, remained a life-long democrat. 1892 leonidas polk becomes the second president of the alliance but dies the same year: polk is for the populists getting into politics, former confederate general. James b. weaver, a former union general, becomes the leader of the populists after leonidas polk dies in 1892: equal rights to all, special privileges to none , does fairly well, gets 8. 5% of the vote. 1890 alliance-backed candidates captured 44 state offices, mostly in the south. 1892 in north carolina, populists adopted a fusion strategy of teaming up with republicans, defeated many democrat opponents and took control of both houses of the state legislature. 1894 white populists and black republicans win control of the. North carolina legislature and bring the state a second reconstruction . Viewed as a turning point for america.
