National Grange

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National Grange
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wheat
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Farmers Alliances
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William Jennings Bryan
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Farmers Alliance and Peoples Party
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William McKinley
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silver dollar
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Presidential election of 1892
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Presidential election of 1896
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Late 1800s Farmers problems

• High supply of crops gt lower crop prices
• High railroad shipping prices
• High prices for seed, plows, tractors, etc.
• High prices for Eastern manufactured goods
• High interest rates from banks
• Occasional drought

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Farmers organizing

• The Grange (starting in 1860s)
• Farmers Alliances (West and South 1880s gt)
• Populist Party (1890s)

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Populists goals

• Unifying farmers and industrial workers
• Electing populist candidates to office
• Government ownership of railroads and telegraph
  companies
• free silver (unlimited coining of silver)
• National income tax
• Fewer working hours for factory laborers
• Secret ballot during elections
• Popular election of U.S. Senators
• End of child labor
• Ban on foreign ownership of farmland