Week 4, Wednesday Lecture

I. Economic Uncertainty and Tormoil

II. Unrest on the Farm

• Declining Prices
• Middlemen
• Deflation
• Bad Weather

III. What Could Be Done?

• Farmers' Alliances & Granges
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• Railroad Regulation
• Coinage of Silver

IV. Populism

IMAGE: Populist Political Debate
IMAGE: Mary Elizabeth Lease
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IV. The Crisis of the Late 19th Century

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