https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2 Read the section from the "Populist Party Platform" that you and your partner were assigned. Summarize the content AND explain why rural farmers demand these changes from the federal government. Do you believe this will help farmers during the Westward expansion era? WHY? en-us 2019-02-18 22:40:30 UTC 2019-02-20 17:30:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333285080 The public lands should be government owned and regulated to help framers to get out of debt. ]]> 2019-02-20 17:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333285080 https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333285339 Populist wanted the government to run the railroads because they were putting tracks through land that wasn’t theirs. It wouldn’t help farmers by demanding they don’t want railroads because its cutting off their source of imports and exports.]]> 2019-02-20 17:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333285339 jake_gowdy https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333285388 The government should control railroads. Transportation is a public necessity so it shouldn’t be controlled by private companies. They wanted this because it meant farmers could transfer their product at a fair price. This does help farmers during westward expansion because it transported their product at a fair price.
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]]> 2019-02-20 17:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333285388 alyah_conde https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333285587 They believe in an untainted ballot is essential to the government.They condemn the wholesale system of disfranchisement. They believe it’s the duty of several state legislators to do these things.
Farmers demanded these exchanges because they wanted to vote for the senators that make their laws.
It would help during the westward expansion era because certain laws could be more beneficial to them, and they could get these laws if they vote for the senators.]]> 2019-02-20 17:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333285587 https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333285924 direct vote (Kenzie, Alicia, brynnan, Ethan)]]> 2019-02-20 17:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333285924 sydney_janke https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333286383 The public lands state that every industrialized citizen should have a home and therefore land should not be monopolized. Bona-fide settlers in free land should granted homes. Farmers feel this way because useful land is being monopolized by the government. 
It will help farmers during westward exspansion because it will provide more land and opportunities.


]]> 2019-02-20 17:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333286383 https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333286812 During depression, the government should hand out jobs to keep the economy as stable as possible (Kenzie, Alicia, Brynnan, Ethan)]]> 2019-02-20 17:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333286812 https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333287260 Wanted fair salaries to match the amount of work put in, also wanted government to stay away from new territories until they became states (Kenzie, Alicia, Brynnan, Ethan)]]> 2019-02-20 17:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333287260 ainsley_schwintz https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333288998 The populists were in favor of the coinage of silver as well as the idea of graduated income tax because most of the populists were farmers in debt. They felt very strongly about not wanting the government to be influenced by money/monopolies. This will help farmers because it will get them out of debt and it’ll be easier for them to obtain money.]]> 2019-02-20 17:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mbarber8/AP2/wish/333288998