1. The Rise and Fall of the Populist Party

2. Warm Up: Labor, Populism, Segregation
What is the expectation for the first 5 minutes of class?
What is the expectation during class discussion?
What is the expectation of you during all class activities?
Take out your notes from homework and be ready for a quick open note quiz

3. Farmers’ Problems Crop prices fell
Farmers had no cash, went further into debt, and their lenders foreclosed on their mortgages
The railroad companies charged outrageous prices to ship crops (no regulation!)

4. Farmers’ Demands
Regulate the railroad companies (Stop them from charging such high rates)
Make cash more available (back the dollar with silver, not gold, so dollar would be worth less)
Constitutional demands: single term for President and Vice-President, secret ballot, popular election of Senators
To get industrial workers to support them: 8-hour workday, restrict immigration

5. Different Groups Representing Farmers’ Interests
1867: The Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange)
1880s: Farmers’ Alliance and Colored Farmers’ National Alliance
1892: Birth of the Populist, or People’s Party

6. 1892 Presidential Election: Populist candidate won over a million votes!

7. 1896 Election Democrats – 1890s Republicans – 1890s Southerners
Wealthy farmers
Supported low tariffs (wanted other countries to buy their crops)
Northerners
Wealthy business men (connected to the railroad)
Southern African Americans (poor farmers)
Supported high tariffs (didn’t want to compete with other countries’ products)

8. 1896 Election
Populists decide to improve their chances by supporting the Democratic candidate, William Jennings Bryan, who agreed to support the silver-backed dollar.

9. 1896 Presidential Election: Bryan loses but carries most of the South and West

10. Central Historical Question
Why did the Populist Party attract millions of supporters?

11. Warm Up
Based on what you learned last class, write a 5-7 sentence paragraph explaining Why the Populist Party attracted millions of supporters?

12. Agenda Warm Up Vocabulary Bingo 7/10 average,
Populism in the South: Document Study
Jim Crow is back again, with the supreme court!
HW: Read P in the text
Answer the DBQ questions p 251
1 paragraph for each question, refer back to evidence from the text to

13. Bingo Words boycott strike Lynching
Leave 2 spaces blank as FREE spaces
William Jennings Bryant
William McKinley
Rally
You can win 3 ways
greenbacks
Across, Vertical, Diagonal
inflation
deflation
populism
cooperative
Jim Crow
Populism
Segregation

14. The N.C. Election of 1898
Why did the Democrats Defeat the “fusion ticket” in 1898?

15. The N.C. Election of 1898
Fusion Ticket: combination of black southern farmers & Republicans in the south running together
Why would they run together?
How is this different that what we know about the Populists in the election of 1896?

16. Close Read 3 Column Chart
Source
Context
Reading Notes/Conclusions

17. Political Cartoon
Analogy Symbolism Exaggeration Irony Labeling

18. Groups Rd 1: You will work together with people who have your document
Analyze your document through note taking and discussion
#1,2= Doc A, 3,4= Doc B 5,6= Doc C
Rd 2: You will work in groups of 3 with people who have different documents to answer the key question
Why did the “Fusion Ticket” loose the election of 1898?

19. Why did the “Fusion Ticket” loose the election of 1898?
1 Person is the scribe You may bullet point or write a Paragraph -What strategies did the democrats use? -why do you think they were effective?

20. Legalizing Segregation
Take out your Jim Crow laws worksheet
How do you think these may have played a roll in the election of 1898?

21. Voting Rights Restricted
1890 Mississippi passes 1st Poll Tax & Literacy Test
1890= 130,000 African American voters in Alabama
1900 = 5300 A.A. voters in AL
How will this effect the south?