2. USH Unit 1-Day 2 Populist Movement

Overproduction led to falling crop prices, which, combined with rising debt, caused financial problems

Because of overproduction, rising debt, and exploitation by railroads and banks

Because of a lack of new farming technology

Because the government provided too much support to farmers

Because there were too many farmers and not enough land

Farming education and community ties

Expansion of railroads

Promotion of urbanization

Industrial labor reform

State regulations on railroads and legal precedents for federal oversight

Increased railroad construction and urbanization

Expansion of the gold standard and international trade

Formation of labor unions and strikes

Free silver/bimetallism

Graduated income tax

Public ownership of railroads/telecom

Direct Senator elections

It established federal oversight of private business by allowing regulation of railroads.

The gold standard hurts farmers and workers; bimetallism would liberate them.

The gold standard should be maintained at all costs.

Silver should be eliminated from the currency system.

The government should not interfere in the economy.

The outcome led to the decline and fragmentation of the Populist movement in the United States.

Direct Senate election

Progressive tax

Regulation of monopolies & railroads

Universal healthcare

Grassroots mobilization model

Abolition of the Senate

Elimination of federal regulation

Return to the gold standard