Today, our topic was the Farmer's Problems. We went over the solutions that the farmer's came up with to stop the abuses they felt they were getting from large industries, Wall Street, and the government.
THOSE SOLUTIONS ARE (in case you forget):
1) INFLATION!!!!!!!
2) The Grange Movement
3) The Farmers' Alliance
We then started talking about POPULISM- the "people's party." You need to know that. Imprint it in your brain (Poplism = the people's party). Repeat it over and over again as necessary. And don't forget it! You received a "Populism Cheat Sheet" that gave you the basic structure of how we go from complaints in the labor and farming communities into the Populist Party (3rd party politics). Keep that handout. It gives you the platform information and helps keep everything organized for you on what Populism is all about.
