The impact of railroads
    http://homepage.interaccess.com/~dreyfus/history.html
    Life on the farm
    http://www.csun.edu/~hbhis149/Populist.html

During the period known as the Progressive Era, how did people try to improve the plight of the farmers?
http://www.sfsu.edu/~hsa/ex-post-facto/mead.html
    Mary Lease
    http://www.ttl98.dsu.edu/smithju/disc1_welc.htm
    http://www.harwich.edu/depts/history/pp/gilded/tsld100.htm
    William Jennings Bryan - Cross of Gold Speech
    http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/brya_a26.htm
    Silverites and the Goldbugs
    http://www.financialhistory.org/fh/1998/61-1.html
    McKinley Tariff Act     http://www.funkandwagnalls.com/encyclopedia/getpage.asp?book=FWENCOnline&page=025000251.asp
    Sherman Silver Purchase Act
    http://reviewmaterials.tripod.com/history/us_history_ii.html
    Gold Standard Act
    http://www.multieducator.com/documents/GoldStandard.html
    Coxey’s Army
    http://www.iberia.vassar.edu/1896/depression.html
    The Grange
    http://www.nationalgrange.org/about.htm
    Farmer’s Alliance
    http://www.myhistory.org/history_files/articles/farmers_alliance.html

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