One factor was barbed wire. As farmers and ranchers wisened up, they used the wire to fence in their cattle, destroying the use of cowboys, and taking away one aspect of the "wide open west". Herds of cattle took over the plains and destroyed the grass. In 1883 the big drought struck and water streams dried up and prairie fires grazed. Also the barbed wire and the natural disasters.
The "Day of Infamy" speech given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on December 8th 1941, was given in front of the US Congress. His goal in giving this speech was to explain what happened and Pearl Harbor and ,more importantly, ask for Congress permission to declare war on Japan.
It is clear that this speech is supposed to paint the Japanese military in a negative light, as FDR calls the attack "cowardly" and "dastardly." Along with this, he is trying to invoke a sense of patriotism among the Congress, as this attack killed American soldiers/citizens. His speech rallies Congress behind this cause and results in Congress approving of war with Japan.
<span>Both the Greenback and Populist parties are Economic Protest parties. The Greenback party (1874-1889) was anti-monopoly, former agrarian party that attempted a farmer-labor coalition and the Populist Party (1887-1908) which was hostile toward the elite, banks, railroads and promoted a radical agrarian ideology.
</span>They were considered left wing protest groups. They did not like the way the other two parties were going so they started up their own. <span>They are considered to be those that broke away from the two major political parties.</span>
