En Cuanto a Speculate as to Why Women Earned the Right to Vote in the Frontier States of the West Before Eastern and Southern States

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Deflation was disastrous for the farmers, but what groups actually benefited from the economic transition? Also, discuss why the bankers were not motivated to meet the needs of the farmers

Doctor Reeves,

Explain how the formation of the Populist movement was based on economics.

It is extremely important to explain the formation of the populist movement is based on the economy because the Populist Party was formed by a group of small farmers and sharecroppers to oppose large-scale commercial agriculture feared that they would put them out of work. Perhaps the best known and most influential populist movement is the rise of the People's Party in the late-nineteenth-century United States.

Since the civil war had cause so much debt the federal government took most paper money “green backs” and silver coins out of circulation and leaving gold as the primary form of currency. Once the gold became scarce the result was deflation. Deflation pushed down the prices of all goods, including crops, resulting in farmers making small to no profits; mean while their debts stayed the same as above, The Populist movement was formed to try and reverse deflation so the crop price would rise, which would lower debts and re-monetize silver allowing it to be the more acceptable currency thereby ending the use of gold and putting more currency in the marketplace.(Emergence of Populist Movement. Retrieved 02, 2007).

Populists advocated federally regulated communication, transportation, and banking systems to offset the prevent economic depression and poverty among working-class families. During the panic of 1873 agricultural prices in the United States began to decline. The economic welfare of farmers suffered badly; many believed that the management of currency was at fault and that the government's currency policy...