Monday- Continued to watch The Men Who Built America Part 3
Tuesday- Started back on our notes.
Granger Laws
- Series of state laws passed in several Midwestern states (Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois) (Late 1860s and Early 1870s)
- Designed to fight back against railraod abuses
- Wantedrailroads and grain elevator to charfe fair prices
- Munn v Illinois (1877) Supreme Court supported farmers
- Wabash v Illinois (1886) Supreme Court supported the railroads
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
- Allowed the US GOvernment to supervise railraods
-Required ralroad rates to be "Fair and Just"
- Set up Interstate Commerce Commmission to carry out law
- Failed to help farmers at first
Populist Movement-Omaha Platform (1890s)
- Help farmers out of debt
- Give people a greater voice in government
- Increases money supply in circulation-Silverities
Gold Bugs (Bankers & Businessmen) (Gold Standard/Less $ in circulation) (Loans would be repaid in stable money) EFFECTS: Deflation-prices fall, valuse of money increases, and fewer people have $
Silverites (Farmers & Laborers) (Bimetallism/More $ in circulation) (Products would be sold at higher prices) EFFECTS: Inflaion-prices rise, value of moneydecreases, more people have $.
- Graduated income tax
- Direct election of Senators
- Single terms for President/Vice President
- Secret ballor
- 8 hour work day
- Restrictions on immigration
Wednesday- NO SCHOOL!!!!
Thursday- Went over some things we talked about on Wednesday. Ane Bruns talked a lillte more briefly about the Populist movement. Then he got us back into the the series The Men Who Built America.
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