
DO NOW: How do you determine what you are
willing to pay for an item while you are
shopping?
Agenda
Analyze Data
Multimedia Overview
Notes
Student Workbook
Project

Open your books to page 243. Write your answers in
your notebooks.
Analyze the chart titled Farm Prices 1870-1900
1. Which crop declined in price the most by 1900?
2. Which region would be most affected by this
decline?

Examine the Primary Source titled Why were the
farmers having problems?
How did technology contribute to the decline in farm
prices?

 http://www.glencoe.com
The American Vision: Modern Times © 2010
Previous Editions
 The American Vision: Modern Times © 2008
Spotlight Videos
 The American Vision - Modern Times
Ch 6 Sec 4 – Populism
Factors
Contributing to
Effects on Nation
Crop prices
continue to fall
Deflation
Panic of 1893
Falling Crop
Prices
High railroad
shipping rates
Farmers
borrowed money
Farmers joined
cooperatives
 Video
 http://www.biography.com/people/jp-
morgan-9414735/videos/jp-morgan-panic-of1893-29733955827
Powerpoint
Goal 5: Becoming an Industrial Society
1877-1900
Populism
Open your workbooks to page 64
Complete the graphic organizer
Populism
I. Unrest in Rural America
A. The Money Supply
B. Deflation Hurts Farmers
C. The Grange Takes Action
D. The Grange Fails
E. The Farmer’s Alliance
Open your workbooks to page 64
Complete the graphic organizer
Populism
II. The rise of Populism
A. The Subtreasury Plan
B. The South turns to Populism
C. A Populist runs for President
Open your workbooks to page 64
Complete the graphic organizer
Populism
III. The Election of 1896
A. Bryan’s Campaign
B. The Front Porch Campaign
Populism Parable
 Wicked Witch of the East=
 Munchkins =
 Scarecrow =
 Tin Woodman =
 Cowardly Lion =
 The Wizard =
 Yellow Brick Road =
 Dorothy's silver slippers =
 Wicked Witch of The West =
 Emerald City =