Farmers and Populist Party

The Grange Aw

akening the Sleepers

Oliver Kelley

1826 Boston 1849 Minnesota

1864 Clerk US Dept. of Agriculture

1867 Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange)

The Grange

Panic of 1873 (rise in popularity)

Granger Laws (Munn v Illinois

1876)

Cooperative Purchasing

Pooling of Savings (early Credit

Union; no banks)

Cooperative Grain Elevators (storage)

Manufacture farm equipment

Mary Elizabeth Lease

“Raise less corn and more hell”

The True cause of farmers problems?

Role/Result of the Grange

The Grange (1875)

The Farmers’ Alliances (1880’s)

The Populist Party (1890’s)

Populist PartyJuly 4, 1892

Increase in money supply

Graduated income tax

Election of Senators by popular vote

8 hour work day

Labor

Farmers

Populist Party

Founding 1896 Cross of Gold

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