Populist movement

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The Populist movement was a late 19th-century U.S. agrarian-based political movement that challenged corporate power and advocated economic and political reforms to support farmers and working people.

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Label Occurrences
Populist movement canonical 3
Populism 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf agrarian movement
political movement
reform movement
aimedAt economic reform
political reform
country United States of America
surface form: United States
geographicRegion Southern United States
surface form: American South

Great Plains
Midwestern United States
surface form: Midwest
hasAlternativeName Populist crusade
Populist revolt
hasKeyOrganization Farmers' Alliance
surface form: National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union

People's Party
hasPart Farmers' Alliance
People's Party
ideology agrarianism
anti-monopoly
populism
influenced 20th-century American reform politics
Progressive Era
surface form: Progressive movement
influencedBy Farmers' Alliance
Granger movement
mergedInto Democratic Party
notableEvent election of 1892
election of 1896
opposed corporate power
large financial trusts
railroad monopolies
peakPeriod 1890s
positionOnEconomicPolicy bimetallism
free silver
graduated income tax
inflationary monetary policy
public ownership of railroads
public ownership of telegraph
public ownership of telephone
regulation of banks
subtreasury plan
positionOnPoliticalReform direct election of U.S. senators
initiative
recall
referendum
secret ballot
socialBase rural laborers
sharecroppers
small farmers
some urban workers
tenant farmers
startTime late 19th century
supported farmers
labor reforms
working people

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Progressive Era influencedBy Populist movement
William Jennings Bryan movement Populist movement
this entity surface form: Populism
Jacob Coxey movement Populist movement