Monday - watched a video
Tuesday - Chapter 5.3
Interstate commerce Act - 1887
- Allowed the US Government to supervise railroads
- Required railroad rates to be "fair and just"
- set up interstate Commerse Commission to carry out law
- Failed to help farmers at first
Populist Movement - Omaha platform
- Help farmers Out of Debt - they mad up most of the populus party, and ifVarmers do well for themselfs it also benifits the country
- Give people a greater Voice in government - because rich white males will try and benifits the rich white males
- Increase Money supply in circulation - money was backed by gold and the problem with that was that you could only get a sertin amount that you could get
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