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Analysis Of The Populist Movement

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Historians debated the description over the overwhelming mass movements. One side described uprising as threatening and dangerous which led them to be cautious of the populist movement. On the other hand, some believed that the uprising was a peaceful resistance to injustice. As John D. Hicks wrote, “the last phase of a long and perhaps a losing struggle- the struggle to save agricultural America from the devouring jaws of industrial America” (Brinkley, 452). The basis of Hicks’s argument is that farmers are realizing the harsh industrial growth having effect on their agricultural life and so want to reform the ways of the government. The Populist movement was a great rift towards the movement of political protest. Their first program was

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