Senior Seminar
10/15
· Liberals think democratic principles are sometimes flawed like when it doesn't protect people's rights.
· Conservatives the leveling of the masses
· Populism arises in the 1890's disaffected farmers come together as the People's party
· Granger movement and Alliance movement oppose railroads and threatening corporate power want gov't control of railroads, gov't control of warehouses, and want to make it easier for farmers to get loans
· 1891 farmers frustrated form Populist Party
· Dem. William Jennings Bryan tries to co-opt populist party
· Christopher Lasch died in mid 90's argues that Pop. Tradition goes deep into American history it has endured varying strength roots lie in Calvinist theology (especially Puritanism) key ideas from Calvinist:
· Belief in human limits
· Distrust of materialism
· Belief in the power of the work ethic
· Lasch, Tom Paine, Cabbett, Brownson, Ralph Waldo......
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