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The Populist Movement

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The industrial era, one filled with great inventions, working employees on the rise and a new beginning. Along with great rising, came with it many conflicts. During this time period a variety of roles were played, even young children had a role. Amongst, the variety of roles played, the most important involved business leaders and the government. With change coming so rapidly as well as corruption, laws and acts were in desperate need at this time. In terms of need and new creations, money and funding were also in high demand, without it, it’d probably been difficult to begin anything. Without look back and reminiscing old time, Americans tend to look forward and see the beginning of what would then be, a new industrial society.
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Due to parties ignoring the interest and difficulties farmers were having. Amongst all the events taken place in the early nineteenth century in regards to communication and transportation i.e. the railroads. Farmers ultimately found themselves stuck in a market where they didn’t control nor understood the surroundings of it. When the movement started it was quite unnoticed, but slowly made its way to become known. Prices changing had an unpleasant effect towards the farmers which led the start of the movement. The prices for the products of farmers were declining, while the shipping rates using railroads rose. Along, with that came difficult and stressful mortgages. Despite the prices declining, they didn’t fall low compared to other commodity prices. On the other hand farmer’s purchasing power was increased. This led to the belief rates were actually falling during this time, which benefitted people shipping out …show more content…

Pay particular attention to our annexation of foreign lands and the Spanish American War.
Test 1: Chapter 21
During the 1890s, the American Policies took a drastic changed. As America was known for expanding, it took a whole new turn during the 1890s. During this time the United States set in place islands that were never intended to be more than colonies in the first place. There was so much interest placed in areas further than the boundaries of the United States. Americans believed it was quite necessary to expand outwards, allowing them to give Natives guidance.
The United States persuaded an expansionist foreign policy shortly after the Civil War. With the help of the secretary of state, William Seward and James Blain, the United States was able to take possession of Alaska. They also made an unsuccessful attempt to acquire Hawaii. The United States diverted Latin American trade from Europe through a series of trades. Hawaii gained America’s attention due to the fact that it was easily set in place, in between the United States and Asia. A vast amount of Americans had already settled prior to the granting of the Hawaiian Sugar free entry into the United States taking place. Shortly, it ended with the McKinley Tariff of

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Out of everything that changed agriculture, the increasing economic difficulty was arguably the most powerful. With so many farms, the amount of produce rose while the prices of produce fell, in some cases, like with Cotton, prices fell over ⅛ of the original price (Doc A). Because of the extremely low prices, as low as 10 cents in some places, some farmers did not make enough to survive and promptly went out of business. Even with groups like the the Farmer's Alliance defending smaller farmers by pooling together resources and money in

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Toward the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the United States was becoming an increasingly powerful nation and world power. The country was competing with other nations also expanding. Their motives for expanding were to gain land and resources. While there was a slight departure from past expansionism, the United States mostly continued as it had been in the previous years. In order to accomplish expansionism, the United States needed to acquire foreign territories to increase their global presence.

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As of recently, there have been reports of an increase in taxes to pay off debts in Massachusetts. A huge number of individuals who couldn 't pay these taxes are farmers, and they ended up finding themselves going to court, then to prison. This issue had led to the start of the Shay 's Rebellion, which was a fight for change between the farmers and the legislatures. I believe that the farmers were making the right decision to oppose the government because of the unfair laws that were placed.

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The relationship of acute crisis in agriculture and the industrial crisis has made the economic depression worse, famers were angry with their government. The banks looked shaky and depositors wanted their money, making them shakier still, and in time many were forced to close. Factories and businesses got rid of large numbers of employees or closed down altogether, and soon there was no money to buy the farmer’s products or anything else and this causes people is inability to buy Agricultural products. “Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s. " Desperate bankers called in their loans, but farmers had no money to pay them and foreclosures and bankruptcy sales became daily events.

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Over time America started to gradually incorporate the Hawaiian islands as an extension of its territory even though Hawaii was largely recognized as its own monarchy by many global nations. It wasn’t until the 1840s when The States Department regularly intimidated other foreign countries that America would finally have full control over Hawaiian commodities. America used Hawaii as a way to solve its problem with its overpopulated naval harbors by signing the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 which allowed the US access to Pearl Harbor. American businessmen took advantage of Hawaii’s most notable product, sugar cane, which was readily available and cheap due to Hawaii’s close proximity to American coastlines.

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A vast majority of the history of the United States was marked by an age of expansionism. This era was particularly pronounced throughout the 19th century; such events may include the acquisition of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the annexation of Hawaii and purchase of Alaska, all of which are the hallmarks of U.S expansionism. The main motives were of a multitude and varied, but there is one particularly strong motivation in this conquest. The acquisition of economic opportunities was a common belief among many of the people of the U.S. and among its leaders. This idea fueled and garnered this idea of expansionism and directed the course of history in its conquest.

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They moved away from expansion into immigration. They had to protect Americans and their jobs while helping immigrants settle in America. In the late 19th century immigration started increasing they all were heading to America. Citizens of America were scared they would lose their job to immigrants because they would work for cheap.

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