History Of The Populist Movement

During the late 19th century and early 20th century the progressive movement and populist movement were groups and organizations getting together to resolve social, economic, and political problems occurring in the United States. Both movements had different approaches to what was more important and how to deal with problems. Progressivism was mainly for the betterment of cities while populism is for agrarian section of farmers.

The Populists and Progressive were form of movement that occurred during the outbreaks of the workers union after the civil war. The populists began during the late 1800s.The progressive began during the 1900s. There are many differences between these two movements, but yet these movements have many things that are similar.

Throughout the 1880s and 1890s America was going through many changes and many of these were fought by the Populists. Silver being demonetized was another major problem for the Populists and they fought it along with asking for a national government regulated currency as well. The Populist Party also fought against the harsh taxes that were in place at the time in the United States. The biggest concern for many of the Populists was how to handle crop failures and how prices were to be controlled. All in all, the Populist movement was centered on helping out the farmers and improving the ever changing economy.

The Populist Movement ultimately failed to survive because of their desire for inflation and the support for the coinage of silver, as well as the fact that they merged with the Democratic Party to combat the Republicans. The 1896 election undermined agrarian insurgency, and a period of rapidly rising farm prices helped to bring about the dissolution of the Populist Party. Another important factor in the failure of the party was its inability to affect a genuine urban-rural coalition; its program had little appeal for wage earners of the industrial east. Although the populists were not outright socialists, many conservative interests saw the Populists as a threat to the basic economic system of the United States. The Populists’ agenda was

I would describe it as the definitive work on the Moore’s Ford lynching apart from the fact that it also reads exclusively like a novel. The description of the lynching is a fairly standard one; four helpless blacks (including two women) were shot in cold blood on the banks of the Apalachee River which is about nine miles from the town of Monroe, Walton County, Georgia, a town which was certainly not a stranger to violence. Wexler’s’ detailed investigation into the case reveals how men like Loy Harrison as well as his lawyer James Arnold worked assiduously together to derail the FBI investigation. The 1948 Senate election is also given some publicity since it ensured the election Herman Talmadge, an out and out racist who would ensure that the blacks of Georgia would be ‘put in their place’.

Revenge is what set the beginning tone of Wexler’s story and the initial reason for why four African-Americans were shot to death. Roger Malcom, one of the lynching victims, stabbed Barnette Hester out of revenge; he believed that his wife, Dorothy, was sleeping with Barnette (Wexler, page13). Since Roger was black and not white, this was considered an act that the white population could not let go unpunished. The death of Roger Malcom was expected by everyone, even Roger knew, “when Barnette Hester died, he would die too” (Wexler, page 55). Many people at the time thought that this was the main motive behind the lynching and that the other three, Dorothy, Mae Murray,

1. What economic issues gave rise to the Populist Party, and what political and economic changes did the party advocate? Why were they considered so radical?

This rebellion gave slave supporters validation for the institution of slavery, stating that blacks were savages that needed to be controlled by slavery. However, this would also help strengthen antislavery feelings in the North thirty years later. This made the tension greater between the North and South building towards the Civil

They thought that if they were to treat the Blacks as equals then this would encourage interracial relationships. They used violence to keep the Blacks in place and at the bottom of the racial chain. This caused several Jim Crow Laws to be set forth such as a black man could not shake hands with a white man because it meant that they were socially equal. A black man could not also extend a hand or other body part towards a White woman for the fear of being accused of raping her. Blacks and Whites were forbidden from eating together and if they did the

Canada has always been under a capitalist ruling regime for many years. The Canadian state, even as a colony of both England and France, went through mercantilist monopolistic practices that affected the lower working classes. During this period, the Church was powerful and was involved in the formulation of power. The state was fully supported by the Church and gained its wealth through illegal means with major benefits going to the aboriginal Canadian citizens. The rebellion or uprising was aimed at fighting capitalist regime introduced by foreigners, addressing high poverty levels and ensuring equitable distribution of resources among the Canadian citizens. This paper will explore the sharing of power between the citizens, Church, and government during the insurrectionary movement.

As whites and blacks both went to the fields and worked on plantations, racial issues arose due to the competition of jobs. Whites were afraid that the blacks were going to take their jobs. The majority of night riding, white capping, and lynching occurred during the Reconstruction era, but many highly publicized lynchings still occurred during the Progressive period. Throughout “Nightriding and Racial Cleansing in the Arkansas Valley,” the majority of the cases of night riding involved whites harming blacks because they were scared that they were attempting to steal their job from them. The whites tried everything they could to drive the blacks out of their towns and counties so the threat of them taking their jobs would vacate. In one instance, white townspeople went to a farm and took the farmers fence and posts and would not return them until he had fired or gotten rid of all the black hired hands. The color line within the state was a huge challenge that the communities of Arkansas encountered throughout the Progressive

The numbers make a compelling case, but they do not tell the entire story because by themselves they reveal nothing of what lynching really involved. It was widely believed that lynching was spontaneous thing -- sudden and emotional acts of revenge committed by irrational mobs. But we know now that lynchings were often planned out in advance, and frequently with the sympathy and cooperation of local leaders and law enforcement officials. In some cases lynchings were even advertised. Days before they occurred men would move through neighborhoods and from town to town, distributing flyers by hand and sometimes printing announcements in newspapers. Transportation might be

The international coverage of the Emmet Till case was a huge contributor to the uprising against extreme racism. First, the way men went about lynching was by doing so under the radar. The communities that harbored the men who committed these ungodly crimes did so very discretely, also. The potential victims, the African Americans, followed an unspoken law, which was to not speak out about these menacing men, or else they might be the next victim. It is also safe to say that every white in the community did not speak of the crimes, regardless of their involvement, or lack thereof. Having the story of Emmet Till’s murder all over international newspapers compromised the community’s ability to sweep the story under the carpet. Also, the millions of people around the globe discussing the case put the once small, insignificant town on the map. Doing so, this resulted in foreigners of the town putting their noses in the town’s business, which would

Methods of tormenting blacks used by white mobs were very inhumane. They would lynch or murder blacks in cold blood, if they violated the written and unwritten rules of the south. They would hang them from trees, shoot them, bomb a building, or even just beat them to a pulp.(Shepard, Arica and Brielle Stonaker) They thought doing these terrible things would scare them into doing what they want, but it never worked. All the lynched people legacies lived on and encouraged people join the movement.

This essay endeavours to construct a theory explaining the adoption of political terrorism to instigate revolutionary social disorder. An attempt to study the conditions under which terror would be selected by a particular social group to advance their agenda regarding the transformation of the nature of the society, the theory will be examined based on the Russian Populism movement and its terrorist activities in the 1870s. In the essay, I shall first introduce the background of the Russian populist movement and then proceed to outline the general theory followed by a more detailed theoretical discussion. Efforts shall be made to examine 19th-century Russian populism and terrorism through the framework of the general theory.