WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
THE GRANGE AND THE POPULIST PARTY PLATFORM
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“having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them; you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"In this speech, who was being crushed and by what?
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Bankers by the gold standard
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Farmers by the gold standard
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Industrialists by bimetallism
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William Jennings Bryan by the silver standard
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -He decried the gold standard, concluding the speech, “you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold". Bryan’s address helped catapult him to the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination and is considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cross of Gold speech was a famous speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois by William Jennings Bryan. He wanted silver and not gold to be America’s bullion standard. It was his goal to create inflation to help those in debt.
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