1. Farmers and Populist Party

2. TheGrangeAwakeningtheSleepers

3. OliverKelley
1826 Boston
1849
Minnesota
1864 Clerk
US Dept. of
Agriculture
1867 Patrons
of Husbandry
(the Grange)

4. TheGrange
Panic of 1873 (rise
in popularity)
Granger Laws
(Munn v Illinois
1876)
Cooperative
Purchasing
Pooling of Savings
(early Credit
Union; no banks)
Cooperative Grain
Elevators (storage)
Manufacture farm
equipment

5. MaryElizabethLease
“Raise less corn
and more hell”
The True cause of farmers
problems?

6. Role/ResultoftheGrange
The
Grange
(1875)
The
Farmers’
Alliances
(1880’s)
The
Populist
Party
(1890’s)

7. PopulistParty
July 4, 1892
Increase in
money supply
Graduated
income tax
Election of
Senators by
popular vote
8 hour work
day
Labor Farmers

8. PopulistParty
Founding
Panic of
1893
1896
Cross of
Gold
Election
of
McKinley