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| A strike that took place in 1892 when Andrew Carnegie decided the union was taking too much control of the steel works so he fired the whole workforce and waited out the strike until the workers agreed to his terms, this showed that neither a powerful union nor public opiion could influence the conduct of the largest corporations. |
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| the largest citizens movement of the nineteenth century, founded in texas in the late 1870s tried to help farmers by creating exchanges for selling crops but the farmers could not finance it so they proposed that the federal government establish warehouses where farmers could sotre their crops until they were sold. The government would then issue loans to farmers at low interest rates. Theis was enacted by congress called the subtreasury plan. |
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| in the early 1890s the alliance evolved into the peoples party (or populists), sought to speak for all the producing classes, won the support of miners and industtrial owrkers. embarked on effort of community organization and educaton, they published numerous pamplets on political and economic questions, established over 1000 local newspapers and sent out traveling speakers |
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| Called for public ownership of the railroads to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops. |
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