As part of the Omaha Platform, the People's Party demanded that there be a reduction in the working day fair, a safe, sound and flexible national currency, assistance to farmers with the financing of their labors, fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union soldiers and sailors, the direct election of the Senators, single terms for Vice-Presidents and Presidents, initiatives and referendums to be readily available, a secret ballot system, the nationalization of railroads, telegraph, postal systems and telephone systems a graduated income tax and the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Answer: The five characteristics of classical civilizations are:the ability to adapt and change; patriarchal nature of the families; economy changed from agrarian to complex; lasting marks on art, architecture, literature, language, and science; and complex trade systems.
National government was given too much power
Thomas Becket was Assassinated on <span>29 December 1170
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