HIUS 188 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Silver Standard, Direct Election, Income Tax

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Who were the populist: farmers, wage laborers, westerners vs. the northeastern power. Farmers primarily in the west and south: the producers who were being ripped off by capital and corrupt politicians. Farmers who owned their land but were worrying about losing it because they mortgaged their lands, in debt. Southern farmers having to borrow in order to fix up their farms at the end of the civil. Saw how wealthy had influenced the government: right of unions, more money in circulation. Intervene to use the market in their favor. Far(cid:373)ers(cid:859) allia(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers tried to do this o(cid:374) their o(cid:449)(cid:374), (cid:271)ut they (cid:449)a(cid:374)ted a government system to do this for them: how did the populists define the people/their constituents, producers vs. capital, tinged with anti-catholicism, anti-semitism, anti-immigrant sentiments. Somewhat: debt, blacks were dependent on future public institutions, did a sharecropper have an identical economic interest to a small farmer, did(cid:374)(cid:859)t o(cid:449)(cid:374) their o(cid:449)(cid:374) la(cid:374)d.

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