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Why did western farmers wanted free silver?

why did western farmers want free silver?


What did farmers wanted from the government?

1790, American farmers wanted fair tax laws and the right to settle western lands.


What did farmers want from the new national government?

1790, American farmers wanted fair tax laws and the right to settle western lands.


Why did the populist party support free silver?

yes, it did they are the ones that wanted it to happen. the populist party was made up of farmers and farmers wanted it so they could pay of their debt


Why did the farmers want silver coinage and inflation?

silver coinage induced inflation which was beneficial to the farmers because it allowed farmers to pay loans of quicker and loans themselves were easier to acquire with the larger supply of money.


What basic difference between Southern and Western farmers emerged from the 1890 elections?

The Alliance found success in the South by working through the Democratic party, but Western farmers held a convention in Omaha in 1892 to nominate their own presidential candidate.


Why did the populist movement start?

As westward expansion was becoming more popular, so was farming the western land. Wanting to be represented, these farmers created the Farmer's Alliance, which fought for rights and privelages of farmers. The Farmer's Alliance later turned into the Populist Party.


Why did the adoption of the gold standard led to the farmers alliance?

because they wanted to. because it was a good idea


What were some expectations that farmers and merchants had for the new us government?

most american lived in the countryside and worked on farms. farmers wanted fair tax laws and the right to settle western land


What was the main thing early people especially farmers fought over?

land because farmers wanted more of it to grow their crops.


Was gold versus silver the major economic issue of the election of 1896?

Yes, farmers and the Populist Party wanted more silver to be coined rather than the current gold standard.


Which group wanted to help farmers pay their debts by creating more silver?

The Free Silver Movement, backed most strongly by Western miners and their employees and by wheat and cotton farmers, wanted the U.S. to continue using silver as well as gold for its coins. This would have created more money and therefore caused inflation (when there is more money available, people are willing to pay higher prices). Because of inflation, farmers would have received more money for their products and would have been more easily able to pay their debts to banks, manufacturers and suppliers of farm equipment, and the railroads that transported their goods, with money that was worth less than when they had borrowed it. The Free Silver Movement was allied to the Populist Party and then became part of the Democratic Party. "Free silver" became the principal issue in the unsuccessful presidential campaigns of William Jennings Bryan, Democratic Party nominee in 1896 and 1900.