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| system of agriculture after the civil war; leased out land to poor farmers whom farmed the land and had to give away some of their profit; bound to the land and did not live in good conditions; happened to both whites and blacks |
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| population; corporative endeavor; organized them for buying and selling in the market; acting together for protection |
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| National Farmers Alliance |
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| happened in late 1880's; did everything in the grange movement but added some political things; wanted the government to regulate the railroads and lower the protective tariffs that inhibited foreign trade; promoted federal income tax; proposed that the government hold goods so that they could regulate the market and keep it from flooding |
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| early 1890's; farmers party; convention in St. Louis in 1892; raise less corn and more hell; lead by Tom Watson; found that there was a political polarization between the haves and the have nots so the reached out to the impoverished; goals were to unite farmers, reach across racial lines, and appeal to industrial workers |
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| Leader of the peoples party |
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| Forerunner for future labor strikes;wage cuts lead to union strikes; coast to coast; fighting and violence on both sides; railroad traffic almost stops completely; railroad workers did not get much out of the settlement |
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| 1886; protest that is meet by police; bombs were thrown into the crowd; few killed and injured many; in many papers; in the aftermath the police round up the radicals that were found guilty and either killed or put in jail; poor were mad; victorians were happy |
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| homestead steel mill owned by Carnegie; wage cuts make the unions go on strike; Carnegie doesn't want to deal so he leaves; hired 300 thugs to protect the mill, battle, steel workers do not get much out of the settlement |
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| big recession with 20% unemployment; unemployed industrial workers go to the government for relief; lead by Jacob Cox; walked to washington and set up a tent city in what would become the washington mall; terrified the government and they broke up the city; army falls apart |
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| reformed unions; 8 hr work day; abolition of child labor; called for humanitarian relief; involved in the hay bargain affair |
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| leader of the socialists; thought that the workers should run the market |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| rejected vague reformism of knights labor; economic objectives; wide spread organization, plan B was labor strikes; nothing to do with the radical or socialist parties; objectives were higher wages, less hours, and better working conditions |
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| leader of the American Federation of Labor |
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