Social Sciences and History / Unit 2 SSH 0108 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Farmers, Populists, and 1896
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The idea
Overproduction and high tariffs squeezed farmers. The Grange of eighteen sixty-seven and the Farmers' Alliance organized them, and the Populist Party formed in eighteen ninety-one with a subtreasury plan for crop loans.
In practice
Bryan's silver campaign of eighteen ninety-six, backed by Populists, losing to McKinley.
Where people slip
The anchor's glossary says eighteen ninety, its text ninety-one; the course follows the text.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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