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Chapter 26 Part 2
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59’ers Colorado and Nevada Gold Rush
Allowed for payment of specie payment in 1879
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Women’s voting Wyoming (1869)
Followed by Utah (1870), Colorado (1893), and Idaho (1896)
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Homestead act 1862 Cheap land with commitment to live on and improve it over 5 year period. Land not good for farming
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Fading Frontier Fredrick Jackson Turner: No more frontier line
Significance of the Frontier in Am. History Democracy and Innovation in moving west No more frontier line
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Farmers Woes Floods & Drought
Low selling of product high purchase of manufactured goods Grangers Led by Oliver Kelley Enhance lives of isolated farmers
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Populists Formed out of the Farmers Alliance
Nationalize railroads and telephones Graduated income tax Free and unlimited coinage of silver
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Election of 1896 Republican: McKinley Democrat: William Jennings Bryan
Gold standard Government Aid of business East Democrat: William Jennings Bryan “Cross of Gold Speech” Silver standard (inflation) South and West
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