Ocala Demands

(noun)

A platform for economic and political reform adopted by members of the Farmers' Alliance in December 1890, in the Marion Opera House in Ocala, Florida. The platform was later adopted by the People's Party. 

Related Terms

  • Farmers Alliances
  • Crop-Lien System
  • Panic of 1893
  • Populist Party
  • Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union

(noun)

In December 1890, the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, more commonly known as the Southern Farmers' Alliance, its affiliate the Colored Farmers' Alliance, and the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association met jointly in the Marion Opera House in Ocala, Florida where they adopted the Ocala Demands. The demands were a platform for economic and political reform and later were adopted by the People's Party.

Related Terms

  • Farmers Alliances
  • Crop-Lien System
  • Panic of 1893
  • Populist Party
  • Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union

Examples of Ocala Demands in the following topics:

  • The Farmer's Alliance

    • The Southern Alliance also demanded reforms of currency, land ownership, and income tax policies.
    • Meanwhile, the Northern Alliance stressed the demand for free coinage of large amounts of silver.
    • The Ocala convention was part of a trend in the farmers' movement to move from its fraternal and mutual-benefit roots toward an increasingly political and radical position.
    • The convention produced the "Ocala Demands," which included a call for the abolition of national banks, an increase in circulating money, free silver, industrial regulations, a graduated income tax, lower tariffs, and the direct election of U.S. senators.
    • In 1892, the Farmers' Alliance founded the People's Party, and the Ocala Demands were incorporated in the party's Omaha Platform.
  • The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements

    • These were known as the Ocala Demands.
    • Agrarian spokesmen in the West and South demanded a return to the unlimited coinage of silver.
  • Economic Conditions

    • These requests were known as the "Ocala Demands."
    • Agrarian spokesmen in the West and South demanded a return to the unlimited coinage of silver.
  • Demand Schedules and Demand Curves

    • A demand curve depicts the price and quantity combinations listed in a demand schedule.
    • The demand curve of an individual agent can be combined with that of other economic agents to depict a market or aggregate demand curve.
    • Using a demand schedule, the quantity demanded per each individual can be summed by price, resulting in an aggregate demand schedule that provides the total demanded specific to a given price level.
    • In this manner, the demand curve for all consumers together follows from the demand curve of every individual consumer.
    • It is derived from a demand schedule, which is the table view of the price and quantity pairs that comprise the demand curve.
  • Market Demand

    • The demand schedule is depicted graphically as the demand curve.
    • The demand curve is shaped by the law of demand.
    • The graphical representation of a market demand schedule is called the market demand curve.
    • As noted, both individual demand curves and market demand are typically expressed as downward shaping curves.
    • The demand curve is the graphical depiction of the demand schedule.
  • Income Elasticity of Demand

    • The income elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of the demand for a good or service to a change in income.
    • The income elasticity of demand (YED) measures the responsiveness of demand for a good to a change in the income of the people demanding that good, ceteris paribus.
    • In contrast, if a rise in income leads to a decrease in demand, the good or service has a negative income elasticity of demand.
    • Negative income elasticity of demand (YED<0): An increase in income is accompanied by a decrease in the quantity demanded.
    • Income elasticity of demand measures the percentage change in quantity demanded as income changes.
  • Shifts in the Money Demand Curve

    • A shift in the money demand curve occurs when there is a change in any non-price determinant of demand, resulting in a new demand curve.
    • The real demand for money is defined as the nominal amount of money demanded divided by the price level.
    • A demand curve is used to graph and analyze the demand for money.
    • The shift of the money demand curve occurs when there is a change in any non-price determinant of demand, resulting in a new demand curve.
    • Likewise, when the demand curve shifts to the left, it shows a decrease in the demand for money.
  • Shifts in investment due to shocks

    • Positive and negative demand shocks directly impact investment; increases in demand encourage higher investment while less demand lowers investment.
    • In economics, a demand shock is a sudden event that increases or decreases the demand for goods or services.
    • A positive demand shock increases the demand (not the quantity demanded), while a negative demand shock decreases the demand.
    • The graph shows the demand curve.
    • When there is a positive demand shock, the demand for goods increases causing the demand curve to shift to the right.
  • Interpretations of Price Elasticity of Demand

    • The price elasticity of demand (PED) explains how much changes in price affect changes in quantity demanded.
    • The price elasticity of demand (PED) is a measure of the responsiveness of the quantity demanded of a good to a change in its price.
    • When PED is greater than one, demand is elastic.
    • The second is perfectly inelastic demand.
    • The price elasticity of demand for a good has different values at different points on the demand curve.
  • Defining Price Elasticity of Demand

    • The price elasticity of demand (PED) measures the change in demand for a good in response to a change in price.
    • The price elasticity of demand (PED) is a measure that captures the responsiveness of a good's quantity demanded to a change in its price.
    • The law of demand states that there is an inverse relationship between price and demand for a good.
    • When demand is perfectly inelastic, quantity demanded for a good does not change in response to a change in price.
    • When the demand for a good is perfectly elastic, any increase in the price will cause the demand to drop to zero.
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