Farmers and the Populist Movement

By kelso

  • Oliver Hudson Kelley

    Started the Patrons of Husbandry.

  • Bland-Allison Act

    Required the government to buy and coin at least $2 million to $4 million worth of sliver each month.

  • Populism

    The movement of the people.

  • Panic of 1893

    Farmers got hit hard in the decades leading to the panic.

  • Unempolyment

    3 million people lost their job.