The Populist Movement
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 23:38:45
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 1 pages (388 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 1 pages (388 words)
In U.S. history, politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the Middle West and
South that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century.
Throughout the 1880s local political action groups known as Farmers' Alliances sprang up
among Middle Westerners and Southerners, who were discontented because of crop failures,
falling prices, and poor marketing and credit facilities. Although it won some significant
regional victories, the alliances generally proved …
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…party advocated the public ownership of
the railroads, steamship lines and telephone and telegraph systems. It also supported the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, the abolition of national banks, a system of graduated income tax
and the direct election of United States Senators. In 1891 Watson was elected to the Senate and
served until March 1893. After being defeated he returned to work as a lawyer in Thompson,
Georgia. He also edited the People's Party Paper.
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