Populism, the Grange Movement, and Monetary Policy

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Populism, the Grange Movement, and Monetary Policy Questions and Answers

What caused the end of the populist movement?

What methods did farmers use to solve their economic and political problems in the late 1800s?

How did the Populist movement try to help farmers?

According to farmers and other supporters of free silver, how would bimetallism help the economy?

Why did the Populist Party attract millions of supporters?

Why were speakers like Mary Lease and William Jennings Bryan popular in the 1890s?

What influence did the Populist Party have on American politics?

What issues did the Populist party support?

What was the original purpose of the Grange?

What were the causes and political results of the rise of agrarian protest in the 1880s and 1890s?  

What factors gave rise to populism, and what role did the Grangers play in addressing the farmers' concerns?

What role did the Populist Party believe the government should play in American society?

How did movements like the Grange, the Farmer's Alliances, and the Populist Party try to help the farmers?  

How did U.S. farmers and workers try to solve the problems they faced in the 1890s?

What was the overall outcome of the Grange Alliance and the Farmer's Alliance?

What is the name of the political party which grew out of the Farmers Alliance?  

What type of people were Populists?

How did the farm crisis during the depression of the 1890s stir growing class conflicts?  

Why did Populist Party want to have a monetary system based on both silver and gold?

How did populism influence the social structure of the US in the 20th century?

How did the Farmers' Alliance and the Grange try to solve the problems of workers or farmers? What were the problems and how did they solve them ?

Why did Populist leader Mary E. Lease urge farmers "to raise less corn and more hell?"

Who organized the Populist Party?

What is Populism in the context of the United States?

Analyze the significance in the emergence of the Populists in the late 19th century.

How did competing ideas like Social Darwinism and the goals of the Populist Party reflect the different segments of American society in The Gilded Age ? 

Why does Ayers emphasize the return to founding documents?

How was the Populist platform designed as an attempt to broaden the appeal of Populism beyond farmers?

How does Populism benefit Americans?

In the 1890s, what were some specific things that were being done to make things better for farmers and for the workers?

By choosing William Jennings Bryan as their candidate in 1896, the Democrats: (A) were showing they were finally going to be like the Republicans.(B) showing they had changed in the direction of the Populists.(C) had decided to change back to leadership of Big Business.(D) were showing all the above to the American voter.