The Alliance Movement

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This paper presents a history of the Alliance movement, explaining that it began as a response by farmers to their long-held grievances against railroads, lenders, grain-elevator owners, and others with whom they did business. The paper explains how the Alliance movement early on turned to politics to further their demands, implementing a successful strategy that eventually formed the Populist party. The paper then looks at the struggles the Populist party began to face after its creation, its eventual demise as well as how some of the ideas from the Populist platform survived into the new century.

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"The southern alliance began in Texas in 1875 but did not assume major proportions until Dr. Charles W. Macune took over the leadership in 1886. Its agents spread across the South, where farmers were fed up with crop liens, depleted lands, and sharecropping. By 1890, the Southern Alliance claimed more than a million members. Like the Grange, the Alliance distributed educational materials, and it also established cooperative grain elevators, marketing associations, and retail stores."

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