HIST 1010 Lecture 9: HIST 1010 - 2 notes
23 Feb 2019
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1862 - provided free land in the west to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Agricultural overproduction more land, improvements in machinery and farming techniques, increase amount grown on each acre, produced more crops. A movement for social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th century. A set of laws designed to address railroad discrimination against small farmers, covering issues like freight rates and railroad rebates. 1887 law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses. Populist party political party that believed that rich industrialists and bankers had a stranglehold on government and that the democratic and republican parties had both sold out to banking interest. Bimetallism free coinage of silver would increase the money available. Cross of gold speech that exalted the farmer and denounced banking interests for attempting to.
