HIST 221: THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1865

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HIST 221 THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1865

• Lecture 5 The Agrarian Revolt -- Populism

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I. The Agrarian Crisis
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II. The Farmer's Alliance
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III. The People's Party

• A. The Omaha Platform (1892)

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III. The People's Party
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III. The People's Party
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III. The People's Party
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IV. Free Silver Fusion With Democrats?

• A. The Battle of the Standards, 1896

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The Battle of the Standards, 1896Pro-Gold
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The Battle of the Standards, 1896Pro-Silver
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V. Populism in Retrospect

• A. Farmer's Libbers? John D. Hicks, Populist
  Revolt (1931)
• B. Paranoid Boobs? Richard Hofstadter, Age of
  Reform (1955)
• C. Proto-Socialists? Norman Pollack, The Populist
  Response to Industrial America

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V. Populism in Retrospect

• D. Sixties Radicals? Lawrence Goodwyn, The
  Populist Moment (1978)

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V. Populism in Retrospect

• E. Enemies of Modernity? Christopher Lasch, The
  True and Only Heaven (1991)

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Grange, Patrons of Husbandry
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Munn v. Illinois, 1877
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Wabash Case, 1886
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Interstate Commerce Act, 1887
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crop-lien
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sub-treasury system
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Mary Lease "The Kansas Pythoness"
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Annie Diggs
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"Bloody Bridles" Davis H. Waite
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"Sockless Socrates" Jerry Simpson
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James Weaver
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William Jennings Bryan
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William McKinley
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Mark Hanna