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Manifest Destiny in the United States. Expanding, getting wealthier, and eliminating more Native Indians.

Excessive growth in farming.

Not many farmers could afford the technology to harvest the crops easier.

Crop prices then plummeted.

Many farmers became extremely poor, and the federal government didn't help for the most part.

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Farmers, union leaders, and organizations allied in Kansas into a party called the "Populists" (to the people). The term "populism" was born.

Populism is a political approach that appeals to the common people who have concerns with elite groups. It comes from the phrase "to the people". Therefore, it intervenes and helps the common people.

The Populist Party was striking for reforms in the nation.

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The Populists nominated James B. Weaver for president, but he just won 8% of the votes, capturing 5 states.

Then the populists sent 8 members to Congress and got plenty of state legislature seats. However, at the time, nativists and racists blamed Jewish immigrants and Chinese railroad workers for their woes.

The Jim Crow era was happening, too.

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Populist Party allied with the Democratic party (the Southerners).

They nominated William Jennings Bryan, a beneficial populist politic, as president.

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Governor of Louisiana and Senator Huey Long led a left-wing movement: the Share Our Wealth Plan

Demanded an equal redistribution of riches for everyone.

The plan capped a total of 50 million dollars.

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Senator Joseph McCarthy arrived.

He claimed communists intruded on government powers and attacked the liberal elites.

Increased the outcry of the original populists.

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Governor George Wallace was a hardcore segregationist.

Used populist rhetoric to capitalize on the whites' anger of the grand social changes.

His followers menaced the government, Vietnam War protesters, the media, liberals and the elite.

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Barack Obama became the president in the 2008 election.

Made the Affordable Care Act.

The laws covered 20 million Americans. However, it left the private healthcare industry intact.

People then considered all this radical and evil.

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In that year's Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders spoke against Wall Street and the government about the financial crisis of 2008, and the great recession after it.

Proposed economic policies so all the people could have what they needed and massively improve the economy.

Donald Trump became president and declared that people could pay less money. He also made a populist appeal to the economic and social insecurity of lots of Americans.

Declared his opponents and the media as the elite, and had a tone close to the factions of the populist movements in the 19th century.