Populism

  1. The Plight of the Farmer
    1. Wizard of Oz
    2. Homestead Act
    3. Effects of increased mechanization
      1. Demographics
      2. Mechanization
      3. Debt
      4. Farmers become businessmen
  2. Farmers Alliance
    1. Crop-lien system
    2. Grange
    3. Farmers Alliance
      1. cooperatives
      2. "bulking"
      3. Texas Exchange
  3. Populist party
    1. Coxey's Army (1894, Massillon, Ohio)
    2. People's Party
      1. James Weaver
      2. Subtreasury plan
      3. Mary Ellen Lease
      4. William Jennings Bryan (1896)
  4. The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)