Populist Party Analysis

The Populist Party, also known as the people's party, was originally created from the Farmers Alliance in the 1890s. The Populist Party was the main representative for many of the producing classes, because many farmers had faced, or were about to face, an increase of economical uncertainty and seeked to improve their dilemma through the Farmers Alliance. The Populist had stumbled upon a great effort of community program and education, that wanted to make changes to better themselves. The Populist took into consideration the new technology, that had caught the public's interest, which were: tranportation(at the time railroads), communication(telegraph), and trading(national marketing), and the government wanted the public to have access to these sorts of technology that had began to get modernized. The Populist Party also created the Populist Platform, created in the year 1892, which was a document that held many of the reforms meant for the American people. Populist Coalitions were strategies in unifying certain efforts. One of these efforts were bringing black and white farmers on a similar strategy that involved politics and economic level. There were still many Afican-Americans who did not wnat to leave the Lincoln Party, but others were seeing the Populist program as an opportunity that was a better offer than previous reforms. The Populists movement also brought upon many women who had the word reform engraved in the their mind, those of who had a clear understanding of farm and labor experiance through first hand experience. Mary Elizabeth Lease is the name of one of the women who were involved in an equal rights movement. In 1892, a canidate to becoming the next president, won more than one million votes, which was a step ...

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...y. There was also a decrease of political opportunites for many African-Americans due restrictions being intensively regulated. This allowed African-American women, who were also activist known as the National Association of Colored Women, to take charge within the politicla assets. During the years of 1890-1906, many states in the south wanted to get rid of black voting rights, because whites did not feel that blacks had earned that priviledge. Nor did they feel that many of the unwealty and illiterate white Americans had the same opportunity as many of wealthy white Americans had. Within the south, there was a racial segreagation that was legally passed through a decision made within the supreme court. There were many African-Americans who wanted to go against the court rule, but, unfortunately, this was when many white Americans started to take fond upon lynching.