The Populist Party: A Historical Analysis

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Making connections is a critical component for historians to help them understand the events that have taken place. In this essay, I’m going to compare the similarities between three groups and how they relate to a certain history theme. Each term within each group relates to a particular theme, however, eventually each term will connect to one theme overall.
Trusts, labor unions, the Patrons of Husbandry, and the Populist Party all relate to the historical theme of Work, Exchange, and Technology. Each of these terms relates to how labor systems, innovations, and government policies have shaped society and the economy. To begin with, a Trust was an economic method that had various companies assign their stocks to the board of trust. The board
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To start with, the Chinese Exclusion Act was established in 1882 and outlawed Chinese immigration for ten years. Congress initiated the Chinese Exclusion Act after corporations on the West Coast directed the blame of declining wages and economic troubles upon the Chinese immigrants. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a political movement that disrupted the cultural diversity of American society because it took away the integrated traditions many of the Chinese introduced. Next, urbanization is the process of people moving from rural to urban areas. Many of these people included immigrants from various countries who came to the United States to work in the factories. This relates to how economic movements shaped society because the economy attracted people from all over the world to enter the United States. This system helped establish the diverse society of the United States. In the third place, the Dawes Act was a federal law that provided American Indian families with a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. In exchange for migrating to the homestead, if the American Indians were given the opportunity to become citizens of the United States if they followed the rules of the Dawes Act for twenty five years. The Dawes Act was initiated in hopes to progressively assimilate American Indian into American society. This relates to the theme because it displays a political movement that worked towards the goal of having the American Indians be accepted within society. Further, the building of railroads attracted international migrants, with an abundant amount from Ireland and Germany, for work. This brought Irish, German, and other various countries customs and cultural traditions into American society; making