Advanced American History
The transition to an industrial economy in the late 19th century generated great wealth, but also a fair amount of economic, social and political upheaval. We have already discussed how this change generated great wealth for industrial titans and a fair amount of difficulty for many of the new industrial workers of the era. It also had a great effect on farmers of the midwest, who felt they were being crushed by a combination of falling commodity prices and increasing costs and debt.
To deal with these changes, farmers organized politically, generating a populist movement that culminated in the nomination of Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the presidential election of 1896.
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