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Notes for Mr. Byrne's periods 5 and 6 classes.
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Closing of the West and Populism
Or... Where the Democrats came from
Free Land!
• Homestead Act (1862)
• Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
• End of Civil War (1865)
• Exodustors
Indian Policies
• Fort Laramie Treaty (1851)
• Assimilation Policies
• Dawes Act
Moving West
• Transcontinental Railroad (1869)
• Homestead Act
• Free Rangers
Closing of the West
• Barbed Wire and the End of Free Ranging.
• Cattle Trails move to Railroads.
• Abilene, Kansas
Granges & Farmers Alliances
• 1867 Oliver Kelley
• Originally, social organization for isolated farmers.
• By 1880’s 4 million members.
Granges Get Political
• Granges organize farming co-ops.
• Banks stop extending credit to Grange co-ops. (Late 1870’s)
• Pro-Grange politicians pass laws against bank policies.
Free Silver
• Farm prices drop through 1880’s -1890’s.
• Granges/ Populists want silver to be accepted currency.
• Banks want gold only.
Populists/ Democrats 1896
• Democrats select William Jennings Bryan as candidate after “Cross of Gold” speech.
• McKinley elected president.