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The People's Party, usually known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was an agrarian populist [2] political party in the United States in the late 19th century. . The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but declined rapidly after the 1896 United States presidential election in which most of its natural ...
The Ocala Demands was a platform for economic and political reform that was later adopted by the People's Party.In December, 1890, the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, more commonly known as the Southern Farmers' Alliance, its affiliate the Colored Farmers' Alliance, and the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association met jointly in the Marion Opera House in Ocala, Florida, where they ...
[15] [16] The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States but fell apart after it nominated William Jennings Bryan as the Democratic Party nominee in the 1896 U.S. presidential election. A small faction of the party continued to operate into the first decade of the 20th century but ...
In the prelude to the 1896 state elections, North Carolina's Republicans were deeply divided over ideology and how to approach Fusionism. One faction, the radical Fusionists led by Russell, favored cooperation and combined electoral tickets with the Populists at all levels of government—including the presidential election—and backed free silver.
The St. Louis Workingman's Party led a group of approximately 500 men across the Missouri River in an act of solidarity with the nearly 1,000 workers on strike. It was a catalyst for labor unrest spreading, with thousands of workers in several industries striking for the eight-hour day and a ban on child labor .
People's Party (United States, 1971) (1973–1976), sometimes also called Populist Party; inspired by the People's Party of the 1887–1908 period People's Party of Georgia (US) or Populist Party of Georgia, the Georgia chapter of the 19th- and early 20th-century American Populist Party
The following is a list of populist parties, leaders and movements. ... United Australia Party [199] [200] Clive Palmer [199] [200] Ralph Babet; Bob Katter [201]
The Fourth Party System began because of a realignment of the Greenback Party, which dominated the greater Rust Belt region (which included upstate New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Baltimore), into the GOP after 1896, and a realignment of the Populist Party, which dominated the Midwest, into the Republican Party after 1900 and 1904 ...