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- The Populist Party arose after the Granger movement and Farmers' Alliances began to decline.
- The Populist Party, also known as the "People's Party," was a short-lived political party in the United States established in 1891 during the Populist movement.
- Some Southern Populists, including Thomas E.
- The Populists had the choice of endorsing Bryan or running their own candidate.
- Fusion with the Democrats was disastrous to the Populist Party in the South.
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- The Populist Party backed the Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election.
- The People's Party, also known as the "Populists Party", was a short-lived political party in the United States, established in 1891 during the Populist movement.
- The terms "populist" and "populism" are commonly used for anti-elitist appeals in opposition to established interests and mainstream parties.
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- The Farmers' Alliance moved into politics in the early 1890s under the banner of the People's Party, commonly known as the "Populists."
- In 1889–1890, the alliance was reborn as the Populist Party.
- The Populist Party, which fielded national candidates in the 1892 election, essentially repeated in its platform all of the demands of the alliance.
- The Populist Party grew directly out of the Farmers' Alliance.
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- There were three periods of the Farmers Movement, popularly known as the Grange, Alliance, and Populist Movements.
- By 1892, a majority of these farmers organizations, along with industrial and radical orders, were united to become the People's Party or Populist Party, and supported the following issues:
- In the presidential election of 1892, the Populist Party elected 22 presidential electors, the first from any third party since 1856.
- In 1896 and in 1900, the Populist Party merged with the Democratic Party in the presidential campaign.
- During the 1890s, the Populists were not very successful in advancing their reform proposals but over the course of the 20th century many of their ideas were eventually enacted.
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- From these elements, a new political party, known as the Populist Party, emerged.
- The pragmatic portion of the Populist platform focused on issues of land, railroads, and money, including the unlimited coinage of silver.
- The remaining Populists also endorsed Bryan, hoping to retain some influence by having a voice inside the Bryan movement.
- In 1898, the Spanish-American War drew the nation's attention further away from Populist issues.
- Once the Populists supported an idea, it became so tainted that the vast majority of American politicians rejected it; only years later, after the taint had been forgotten, was it possible to achieve Populist reforms, such as the direct popular election of Senators.
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- Decreases in crop prices and crop failures in the 1880s bred economic discontent among farmers that led to the formation of the Populists.
- From these elements, a new political party, known as the "Populist Party," emerged.
- The Populists showed impressive strength in the West and South in the 1892 elections.
- In 1898, the Spanish-American War drew the nation's attention further away from Populist issues.
- Once the Populists supported an idea, it became so tainted that the vast majority of American politicians rejected it; only years later, after the taint had been forgotten, was it possible to achieve Populist reforms, such as the direct popular election of senators.
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- Some people—mostly Democrats—joined the far-left Populist Party.
- In that year's presidential election, the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan, who focused (as Populists rarely did) on the free silver issue as a solution to the economic depression and the maldistribution of power.
- The Populists had the choice of endorsing Bryan or running their own candidate.
- Bryan's strength was based on the traditional Democratic vote (minus the middle class and the Germans); he swept the old Populist strongholds in the west and South, and added the Silverite states in the west, but he did poorly in the industrial heartland.
- Assess the significance to the Populist Party William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign
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- Populists believe that virtuous citizens are being mistreated by a small circle of elites, who can be overthrown if the people recognize the danger and work together.
- There have been several iterations of populist movements in the United States.
- In the 1990s and 2000s, the presidential campaigns of third-party billionaire Ross Perot, Green Party and Independent Ralph Nader, and Democrat John Edwards have been identified by the media as running populist campaigns.
- In a recent example of populist movements, participants of the Occupy movement chose the slogan "We are the 99%" The Occupy leadership used the phrase "the 1%" to refer to the 1% of Americans who are most wealthy.
- Political science professors Joe Lowndes and Dorian Warren were among those to conclude that Occupy Wall Street was the "first major populist movement on the U.S. left since the 1930s."
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- In this context, the contemporary American on the left is often considered individualist (or libertarian ) on social/cultural issues and communitarian (or populist) on economic issues, while the contemporary American on the right is often considered communitarian (or populist) on social/cultural issues and individualist (or libertarian) on economic issues.
- This puts left-wingers in the left quadrant, libertarians in the top, right-wingers in the right, and what Nolan originally named "populists" at the bottom.
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- It was accompanied by violence; the miners lost and many moved toward the Populist party.
- Even in the South, the Democrats lost seats to Republican-Populist electoral fusion in Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
- The Populist Party ran candidates in the South and Midwest, but generally lost ground, outside Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas where state-level fusion with the Republicans was successful despite Populist and Republican antagonism at the national level.
- The President, a staunch believer in the gold standard, refused to inflate the money supply with silver, thus alienating the agrarian populist wing of the Democratic Party.