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GRANGE MOVEMENTGRANGE MOVEMENT•Joining with other interested individuals in 1867, Oliver Kelley formed the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
•Local affiliates were known as "granges" and the members as "grangers."
•After the Panic of 1873, the Grange spread rapidly throughout the farms of the Midwest, since farmers in all areas were plagued by low prices for their products, growing indebtedness and discriminatory treatment by the railroads.
•Very strong in Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, & Iowa (big farm states)
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GRANGE MOVEMENT (cont)GRANGE MOVEMENT (cont)•The Grange played an important role by demonstrating that farmers were capable of organizing and advocating a political agenda
•Many of their ideas and plans were taken up by other political organizations, most notably the Populist Party of the 1890s
•Lecturers went from town to town
•Membership grew to 4 million
•Most members in South and West
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GRANGE MOVEMENT (cont)GRANGE MOVEMENT (cont)•Common Message:
•Lower interest rates
•Government control of railroads
•Government control of banks
•Increase in money supply
•High tariffs to protect farmers from foreign competition
•Eventually gave rise to Farmer’s
Alliances, which gave rise to the
Populist party!!!!!
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PANIC OF 1873PANIC OF 1873
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•Jay Cooke and company, the country’s preeminent investment banker, fails •Because it is the primary backer of Northern Pacific railroad, and had handled many American civil war loans (international crisis!!!!!!)•Many had borrowed money after civil war to get “back on their feet” so this hits many HARD!!!!
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PANIC OF 1873 (CONT)PANIC OF 1873 (CONT)
RESULT? The New York Stock Exchange was
closed for 10 days. Credit dried up, foreclosures were
common and banks failed. Factories closed their doors, costing
thousands of workers' jobs. The volume of destitute people soon
overwhelmed the abilities of charities to function.
Most of the major railroads failed By 1875, 18,000 companies had
folded!
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POPULIST PARTYPOPULIST PARTY ““MOVEMENT OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE
PEOPLE”PEOPLE” FOUNDED IN 1892FOUNDED IN 1892 DEMANDED REFORMS DEMANDED REFORMS
TO LIFT THE BURDEN TO LIFT THE BURDEN OF DEBT FROM OF DEBT FROM FARMERS AND FARMERS AND OTHER WORKERSOTHER WORKERS
GIVE PEOPLE GIVE PEOPLE GREATER “VOICE”GREATER “VOICE”
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POPULIST HERO, WILLIAM J. BRYAN