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1896: The People's Party The Rise of Populism The People's Party (or Populist Party, as it was widely known) was much younger than the Democratic and Republican Parties, which had been founded before the Civil War. Agricultural areas in the West and South had been hit by economic depression years before industrial areas. In the 1880s, as drought hit the wheat-growing areas of the Great Plains and prices for Southern cotton sunk to new lows, many tenant farmers fell into deep debt. In 1890 Populists won control of the Kansas state legislature, and Kansan William Peffer became the party's first U.S. By 1896 the Populist organization was in even more turmoil than that of Democrats. The second faction, called "mid-roaders," suspected (with good reason) that Democratic leaders wanted to destroy the third-party threat; fusion, they argued, would play into this plot. Inside the People's Party, mid-roaders sought to schedule the national convention before those of the Republicans and Democrats. Mr. Populists at St.
American History American History Central - Digital Encyclopedia of American History History on Trial The Pocahontas Archive Did she, or didn't she? Save John Smith, that is. Use the extensive list of materials here to explore this and many other questions about the representation of the saintly but shadowy Indian Princess whose presence hallows our Capitol rotunda. The Literature of Justification What right had the first "discoverers" of America to make war on and take land from the Native Americans? Reel American History Film writes history with lightning. The Enola Gay Controversy How do we remember a war that we won? The Vietnam Wall Controversy How do we remember a war that we "lost"? The Jefferson - Hemings Controversy History matters. | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
American Revolution: Early Colonial Era 1000 A.D. -Leif Ericson, a Viking seaman, explores the east coast of North America and sights Newfoundland, establishing a short-lived settlement there. 1215 - The Magna Carta document is adopted in England, guaranteeing liberties to the English people, and proclaiming basic rights and procedures which later become the foundation stone of modern democracy. 1492 - Christopher Columbus makes the first of four voyages to the New World, funded by the Spanish Crown, seeking a western sea route to Asia. On October 12, sailing the Santa Maria, he lands in the Bahamas, thinking it is an outlying Japanese island. 1497 - John Cabot of England explores the Atlantic coast of Canada, claiming the area for the English King, Henry VII.
Home | Archiving Early AmericaArchiving Early America | Your Window Into America's Founding Years! Bracero History Archive | About The Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States, ended more than four decades ago. Current debates about immigration policy-including discussions about a new guest worker program-have put the program back in the news and made it all the more important to understand this chapter of American history. Yet while top U.S. and Mexican officials re- examine the Bracero Program as a possible model, most Americans know very little about the program, the nation's largest experiment with guest workers. Indeed, until very recently, this important story has been inadequately documented and studied, even by scholars. The Bracero Program grew out of a series of bi-lateral agreements between Mexico and the United States that allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States to work on, short-term, primarily agricultural labor contracts. The Bracero Program was controversial in its time.