Populism

 Inflation:  Supply Demand value $$  Deflation:  Supply Demand value $$

 3. Why does deflation hurt farmers?  Sold crops for less, but still owed the same amount on loans  4. Three goals of the Populists?  Increase farm power, reform, silver  5. Whose support did they try to gain?  Union

 6. Who were the populists?  Farmers  7. This period was called the ___ ____?  Gilded Age  8. How did Cleveland want to end depression?  Repeal Sherman Silver Act, money only backed by gold

 9. Nickname for supporters of Cleveland plan?  Goldbug  10. How did populists want to end Depression?  Silver Coins  11. What were they called?  Silverities

Wizard of Oz  Lyman Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz was published in Many of you are familiar with the movie that followed a few decades later, and still plays regular on TV today. Scholars throughout the 20th Century have found many Populist symbols throughout the story. Here are a couple of hints that you may find useful as you search for this symbolism. Whereas the movie uses ruby slippers, the original story had silver slippers. Also, in Baum’s version, Emerald City only appeared green because the characters were required to wear glasses that made it appear to be so.

Scarecrow  Farmers

Tin Man  Industrial workers  Industrial (no Heart)

Cowardly lion  Reformer, not really cowardly  William Jennings Bryan

Yellow brick road  Gold  Dorothy walks on in Sliver slippers, relationship between two metals

Emerald City  Greenbacks  DC – capital  Only appears nice through glasses, gilded age

The Wicked Witch of the East  Bankers nothing for farmers

The Wicked Witch of the West  Nature, water  Mortgage companies, heartless

The Wizard of Oz  Politicians  Gilded  Pres. McKinley

Dorothy  Every person  Toto  teetotaler, allies of silverites

Ruby Slipper’s  Book Silver Slippers  Held power till the end of the story

Oz  Ounces abbreviated

The poppy fields  Only effect Dorothy and Lion  Drugs?

Munchkins  Little people, middle class

Glinda  Movie combines Good witch of North and South  Influence of North and South  In movie North only witch left

Monkeys  Native Americans  Pinkerton Agents

Kansas  Drought  Populist strong hold

Cyclone  Idea of change  Victory of silver forces