Page 640 17.1. What were the origins and the significance of Populism? The Farmers’ Alliance was the largest citizen’s movement
of the nineteenth century. In the beginning, it sought only to improve rural conditions, but it gradually became more politically involved, asking the federal government to store unsold crops and use them as collateral for loans to the farmers
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Farmers in the Middle West and the South formed a coalition that supported changes in the economy of the United States. It was known as the Farmer's Alliance and was formed in the 1880s by farmers that had economic problems and their voice was not being heard by the government. So in 1892, they formed thePeople's Party also known as the Populist Party, to help farmers to help overcome problems such as falling prices of crops and low credit support.
The origins and the significance of Populism was part of the Farmers’ Alliance and was the largest citizen’s movement of the nineteenth century. In the beginning, it sought only to improve rural conditions, but it gradually became more politically involved, asking the federal government to store unsold crops and use them as collateral for loans to the farmers.
The Industrial Revolution in England lead to the development of trains and fast travel.
The United States quickly adopted the technology and brought in English businessmen and engineers to develop railroads in it's sprawling western states.
Railroads were integral in the early years in to cement newly acquired states under the control of the Federal government. <span />
The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and the First Continental
Congress of 1774 were two assemblies of legislatures from the American
colonies, assembled in response to taxes enacted by Great Britain. Yet while
the Stamp Act Congress and the concomitant boycott of British goods positively
forced Britain to repeal the Stamp Act, the First Continental Congress happened
during a time of intensified tension between Britain and the colonies and in
its place directly led to the American Revolution.
