WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
GILDED AGE POLITICS
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Question
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Pro-silver Democrats did not vote with the Populists.
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Populists supported losing candidate William Jennings Bryan
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many Democrats promised to support Populist programs.
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Populists won control of several state legislatures.
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the 1896 presidential election, the Populist Party suffered a nationwide collapse. The party nominated presidential candidates in the three presidential elections after 1896, but none came close to matching Weaver’s performance in 1892. Former Populists became inactive or joined other parties.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1896 presidential election, the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan as its candidate, and the Populists agreed to support him. The People’s Party was thus folded into the Democratic Party and began to fade from the national scene.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 1896 United States presidential election was the 28th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1896. Former Governor William McKinley, the Republican candidate, defeated former Representative William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate.
Detailed explanation-4: -Bryan became affiliated with the latter group and advocated for the free coinage of silver ("free silver") and the establishment of a progressive federal income tax. That endeared him to many reformers, but Bryan’s call for free silver cost him the support of Morton and some other conservative Nebraska Democrats.