Students,
The following questions should be answered by Thursday, March 6, 2014. Students, essay questions should be
answered in your own words by summarizing, paraphrasing, and/or analyzing
content information. You should use the textbook or internet as a resource but not to copy and
paste or write in someone else words. Content information should be accurate
and based on informational readings and text.Students are to select one (1)
question to answer in two detailed paragraphs and state a thesis sentence based
on your argument to be explained (Thesis statement should be in the 1st
paragraph). Grammatical errors should be reviewed and corrected before
submitting
your essays questions. The essay is worth 80 points total.
Extension
Assignment- Students should comment on at least two of their classmates’ essays
by Monday, March 10, 2014, 12:00a.m. Your comments should be at least 2-3
sentences in length. The comment should be a critical evaluation of the essay and
explain whether you agree with the argument or disagree. This assignment will
allow students to become peer supporters in this AP US History class and help
critic the writings of their classmates. This assignment is worth 20 points (10
points per comment). Your overall grade will come from Mrs.
Ladd.
Select one (1) of the following questions:
1.In what ways did the creation of the Greenback and Populist parties indicate that the two major parties had failed to deal with the critical problems of the period from 1877 to 1900?
2. To what extent were the supporters and the reforms of the Populists of the 1890s both ahead of their times and behind their times?
To what extent were the supporters and the reforms of the Populists of the 1890s both ahead of their times and behind their times?
ReplyDeleteThe supporters and reforms of the Populists of the 1890s were both ahead of and behind their times in many ways. The supporters of the Populists of the 1890s wanted to enhance, or reform, the system of the country from within. Although their presidential candidate did not succeed in getting elected, many of the things they wanted to have put in force were later put into use. Supporter of the Populists wanted many things that were either put in place in the future or not commonly agreed with by all members of the country. For instance, supporter Tom Watson wanted all southern farmers to come together as one, recognize their common plights or situations and work together. He as well as Mary Ellen Lease wanted southern farmers to start reforming. This seems to have some what picked up but not exactly during their time period.The reforms of the Populists of 1890s were also ahead of and behind the times. The Populists of the 1890s had many acts, movements, and laws that they wanted to have set in motion. Two of these are the Bland-Allison Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. The Bland-Allison act was passed in over the presidential veto in 1878. It required the secretary of the Treasury to buy two million dollars of silver each month and coin it into dollars. This didn't work out well and most of the silver ended up remaining in the treasury because it did not circulate well due to its weight and bulk.
The Sherman Silver Act forced the treasury to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver each month. And while the price of silver didn't rise and precious gold was being drained away while cheap silver piled up in the treasury, this act helped to precipitate the panic of 1893 and caused a decrease in foreign investments in the United States economy. This act was later repealed in 1893. Thus, while the supporters and reforms of the Populists were ahead of their time because of the ideas, views, and reforms that they had, they were behind their time because of the ideas, views, and reforms that they had, they were behind their time because there ideas and views were not exactly agreed with by all members of the country and their reforms caused problems later on after being set in motion.
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DeleteThe Populist Party created a platform called the Omaha. The platform was made so that the senators of the U.S. who were elected based on direct popular vote and it also enacted state laws by the voters. They wanted popular elections of the federal senators, who want the unlimited coinage of silver, which was an eight hour work day and also government own age of the railroads. The Populist Party where behind their time because they want silver to be circulation. Having the elect of senators created more of a democratic society.They wanted government owned telegraph and telephones systems. Even thought it wasn’t working for the economy. The Populist Party was a party that represented the common man.
ReplyDeleteTo what extent were the supporters and the reforms of the Populists of the 1890s both ahead of their times and behind their times?
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DeletePopulism emerged in the 19th century in order to reform the system from within. Creating the Populist Party with James Weaver as their presidential candidate, the Populists strove to bring their reforms into the political limelight. Although they did not succeed in electing their candidate to the presidency, many of their reforms were later enacted.During the decade of the 1870s, U.S. farmers were beset with problems of high costs, debts, and small profits. the farmers made their grievances known through the Granger Movement. Membership peaked in the mid-1870s. There was little the farmers could do concerning prices.
ReplyDeletehe Grangers in various states lobbied state legislatures in 1874 to pass maximum rate laws for freight shipment. The railroads appealed to the Supreme Court to declare the "Granger laws" unconstitutional. Instead, the Court ruled against the railroad’s objections in Munn v. Illinois.The Populist party, or people's party, was a party that represented the "common man." It was created towards the end of the nineteenth century. Some of their goals included creating postal savings banks, enacting immigration restriction, setting a graduated income tax and limiting the presidency to a single six-year term. The Populist platform represented views of farmers in the West. The Omaha platform of 1892 nominated James Weaver of Iowa for president.
Since the 1890s historians have vigorously debated the nature of Populism; most scholars have been liberals who admired the Populists for their attacks on banks and railroads. Some historians see a close link between the Populists of the 1890s and the progressives of 1900-1912, but most of the leading progressives (except Bryan himself) fiercely opposed Populism.
DeleteSome historians see the populists as forward-looking liberal reformers. Others view them as reactionaries trying to recapture an idyllic and utopian past. For some they are radicals out to restructure American life, and for others they are economically hard-pressed agrarians seeking government relief. Much recent scholarship emphasizes Populism's debt to early American republicanism.[13] Clanton (1991) stresses that Populism was "the last significant expression of an old radical tradition that derived from Enlightenment sources that had been filtered through a political tradition that bore the distinct imprint of Jeffersonian, Jacksonian, and Lincolnian democracy." This tradition emphasized human rights over the cash nexus of the Gilded Age's dominant ideology
To what extent were the supporters and the reforms of the Populists of the 1890s both ahead of their times and behind their times?
ReplyDeleteThe supporters and reforms of the Populists of the 1890s were both ahead of and behind their times in many ways. The supporters like things in order and wanted it done now.Supporters wanted to strengthen the community. Although their presidential candidate did not succeed, many of the things they wanted to have put in force were pass. The U.S. farmers were harass people with problems of high costs, debts, and small profit.
The supporters and reforms of the Populists were ahead of their time because of the ideas, views, and reforms. Also, they were behind their time because they want silver to be circulation.They were behind their time because of ideas and views that were not exactly agreed with all members of the country and their reforms caused problems later on after being set in motion.The Populist party, or people's party, was a party that represented the "common man." Some of their goals included creating savings banks and graduated income tax. Most of the silver ended up remaining in the treasury because it did not circulate well due to its weight and bulk.
The extent of supporters and the reforms of the populist of the 1890’s said they were ahead of their time due to toward the end of the 1880s, a significant number of women and their male allies came to the conclusion that Social Darwinism, the reigning ideology that had justified economic expansion since the Civil War, was inhumane in its effects and unchristian in its implications. Seeking more meaningful vocational choices than those the order of the day supplied, they pioneered such new professions as social work, or reinvented such older ones as teaching and journalism to make them more ethically meaningful. Following the precedents of Toynbee Hall in London, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889, in a quiet way beginning the era with a concrete achievement. The social settlement movement, with its efforts at adult education, public health, political lobbying, and immigrant assimilation, gave women a respectable place in society. When John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and other academics joined various clergy and a few doctors in associating themselves with settlement houses, Progressivism was essentially under way.
ReplyDeleteThey were behind their times due to them not succeeding in electing their candidate to the presidency, many of their reforms were later enacted. During the decade of the 1870s, U.S. farmers were beset with problems of high costs, debts, and small profits. The farmers made their grievances known through the Granger Movement. Membership peaked in the mid-1870s. There was little the farmers could do concerning prices.