Jessica Thompson: Farmers and the Populist Movement

By Candy The Magic Dinosaur!!

  • Populism

    Populism
    The movement of the people. On July 2, 1892, a Populist Party convention in Omaha, Nebraska, demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from farmers and other workers and to give the people a greater voice in their government.

  • The Panic of 1893

    The Panic of 1893
    The Panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in that year. Farmers were particulary hit hard.

  • William McKinley

    William McKinley
    William McKinley is the 25th president of the United States of America.
    'At the 1896 Republican Convention, in time of depression, the wealthy Cleveland businessman Marcus Alonzo Hanna ensured the nomination of his friend William McKinley as "the advance agent of prosperity." The Democrats, advocating the "free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold"--which would have mildly inflated the currency--nominated William Jennings Bryan.'

  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan
    William Jennings Bryan gave the "Cross of Gold" Speech. He gave this speech and won the Democratic nomination.