After the populist achieved some success on a local level in the late 1800s, they set their sight on adopting much of the People's Party's platform.
<h3>What was the
populist party?</h3>
The party sprung out of the Populist Movement which was a politically oriented coalition of an agrarian reformers in the Midwest and South that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century.
During the 1880s, these local political action groups known as the Farmers’ Alliances sprang up among Midwesterners and Southerners as they were discontented because of crop failures, falling prices, and poor marketing and credit facilities.
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