The populist movement was a period in history where America was plagued with a lot of corruption and economic issues. The gold standard was causing deflation, the farmers were trying to gain political power, many businesses were being monopolized, and so much more. The gold standard was one of the biggest debate points of the election of 1896. William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate, was a large supporter of free silver. Free silver, if put into the economy, would most likely cause inflation and help the farmers.
Long voiced populist resentments that many depression-era Americans felt toward 'wealthy plutocrats' and 'bloated fortunes.' He promised, through his implausible Share-Our-Wealth Plan, a radical redistribution of wealth: confiscatory taxes would scale down large fortunes, and the revenue would be used to guarantee everyone a minimum annual income of twenty-five hundred dollars. By 1935, he had launched his own national political organization (the Share-Our-Wealth clubs) and was talking openly of running for president the next year against Roosevelt. The crude public opinion polls of the time indicated that he could not win, but that he might tip the balance in a close race. In fact, the 'Long threat,' as Democratic politicians described it, was probably less serious than it appeared.
Allan Pinkerton “Allan Pinkerton was a key figure in the development of the railroad police as well as in the development of contract security forces” (Hess and Wrobleski, 1996, p.17). A native of Scotland, Pinkerton was born, August 25, 1819. He was forced to immigrate to the United States in 1842 due to his involvement in a radical chartist group and settled near Chicago, Illinois. After some searching, he moved to a town called Dundee that was in need of a cooper and quickly gained control of the market because of his superior quality barrels and low prices. His desire to continually improve his business actually led him down the path to being a detective.
Origins of Progressivism The Populist Movement committed political suicide by backing William Jennings Bryan, a Democrat, for president in the Election of 1896. Their revolt was not without results, though, because their ideas were picked up by the most successful political reform movement in all of US history. This next movement is known as Progressivism, and these reformers were so successful as to totally take over American politics in the 20th century. They were so successful that most modern Americans have never heard of them. They so altered American government as to become unnoticed.
A Rhetorical Analysis of Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address On March 4, 1865 Abraham Lincoln gave his second inaugural address to a crowd of over thirty thousand Americans, the civil war was coming to an end, and America was divided. In order to heal his broken nation, the war had to end completely. Lincoln's purpose in giving this address was to emphasize the actions that need to be taken in order to end the Civil War, he achieved that purpose by appealing to ethos, using positive diction, and creating an optimistic tone throughout the piece. Lincoln was the president of the United States so he was a very credible figure, people knew that they were receiving information from a reliable source. He appealed to ethos by trying
Also, he gave elected officials the right to choose their own followers to public office. Jacksonian Democrats also sought “relaxed property qualifications to vote”. Jacksonian Democrats were all about representing the common man, and, since it represented the powerful and wealthy eastern people trumping over poor farmers, they shut down the “Second Bank of The United States”. Populists were also about representing the common man. In fact, they wanted “free and unlimited coinage of silver” to help debtor farmers in the west that had borrowed gold from wealthy western Americans.
William Howard Taft was nominated by the support of Republicans and the conservative wing. Since Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, TR and his supporters formed the Progressive Party, (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party") so he was chosen as its candidate for President. Eugene V. Debs, knows as a American Union leader and founding member of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World, was a nominee of the Socialist Party. The fourth runner in this election was Woodrow Wilson, supporter of the Democratic Party. He was nominated on the ballot thanks to the support of William Jennings Bryan, a three-time Democratic presidential candidate.
In 1930 President Roosevelt won election and started the New deal in hopes of turning American strife around. With millions unemployed nationally, it would be a tough job. The banks were dry, as well as, farmer’s lands across America. It seemed that trade had come to a dead end and that everything was going in circles, creating an echo effect internationally. It would be years before America was back on its feet economically, and another great war lied ahead, but somehow Americans were able to keep their hopes and dreams alive and come out on the other
This act provided retirement funds, disability insurance and unemployment compensation on a national scale. FDR also made that the value of the dollar was devalued to help stimulate trade with foreign countries and to support competitive practices in terms of business. With the New Deal in place, assistance was provided to businesses and farms and The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was passed to stabilize industry. At the time, The Supreme Court deemed that the Agricultural Adjustment Acts and NIRA were unconstitutional. Many people claimed the programs were socialistic and were worried about having a welfare state funded by the government.
The Gospel of Wealth was the most influential of his writings, however, in that Carnegie stressed that the wealthy had a moral obligation to give to philanthropic causes and serve as stewards of society. Four years later, in 1901, Carnegie was nearing the end of his business career and allowed J.P. Morgan to buy out his steel empire for an astonishing price of $480 million dollars (Ibid.). Morgan was able to create U.S. Steel, and Carnegie became the richest man in the world. Carnegie did not want to remain a shareholder in the steel company, however, so he put the $300 million in gold bonds that he received from the deal into a specially-built vault in New Jersey. He never wanted to see or touch any of the money (Swetnam and Smith 1993,