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Farmers' Movement | |
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Periods | The Grange (first) Farmers' Alliance (second) Populists (third) |
Prominent members | Oliver Hudson Kelley William Jennings Bryan James B. Weaver Thomas E. Watson Charles Macune John Rankin Rogers Marion Butler |
Associated parties | Labor Party Silver Republican Party Greenback Party Silver Party People's Party |
Founded | 1867 |
Dissolved | 1896 |
Succeeded by | Progressive movement |
Newspaper | Alliance newspapers |
Ideology | Initial phase: Reformism Cooperativism Grassroots democracy Later phase: Agrarianism Populism Progressivism Land reform Monetary reform |
Political position | Left wing |
The farmers' movement was, in American political history, the general name for a movement between 1867 and 1896. In this movement, there were three periods, popularly known as the Grange, Alliance and Populist movements.[1]