WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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End the practice of sharecropping
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Improve conditions of farmers
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provide housing for urban dwellers
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increase profits for railroad companies
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Granger movement was founded in 1867, by Oliver Hudson Kelley. Its original intent was to bring farmers together to discuss agricultural styles, in an attempt to correct widespread costly and inefficient methods. Kelley promoted his movement all over the country, but it only caught on in the West.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Populist Party’s roots lay in the Farmers’ Alliance, an agrarian movement that promoted economic action during the Gilded Age, as well as the Greenback Party, an earlier third party that had advocated fiat money.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Populists were an agrarian-based political movement aimed at improving conditions for the country’s farmers and agrarian workers. The Populist movement was preceded by the Farmer’s Alliance and the Grange. The People’s Party was a political party founded in 1891 by leaders of the Populist movement.
Detailed explanation-4: -The frustrated farmers eventually organized around the Granger organizations in order to push for regulation of the railroads and their rates. Explanation: The idea of “Free Silver” (the open coinage of silver backed dollars, as opposed to those backed by more expensive gold) was one supported by the Populist Party.