Farmers, Laborers, and the Populist Party | Interactive Image

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Populism Populist Party the People’s Party Prohibition Party Free Silver Party Panic of 1893 Silver Question bimetallism socialists Socialist Party Eugene Debs Old Granger Party Grange Patrons of Husbandry farmers Granger laws cooperatives cooperative system farmers’ alliances Knights of Labor 8-hour workday women’s rights women’s suffrage National American Woman Suffrage Association NAWSA Carrie Chapman Catt Old Greenback Party National Greenback Party greenbacks paper money debt communists Karl Marx anarchists anarchism Judge magazine “A Party of Patches ” Platform of Lunacy United States U.S. history us history history American history social studies ushist22

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History-Social Science

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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12

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Classroom Teacher / Educator

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Farmers, Laborers, and the Populist Party | Interactive Image

Using an interactive image featuring the political cartoon “A Party of Patches,” students will learn about the different groups that made up the late 19th-century Populist Party, also known as the Peoples’ Party, and the major issues and goals adopted by the party. In addition, students will explore the cartoon’s features that identify it as a piece of Republican Party propaganda.

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PBS Learning Media