Myth and Reality in the Populist RevoltHeath, 1966 - 112 pages |
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... west or not . • • Americans tended to look upon the cultivators of the earth as the foundation upon which a virtuous American Republic would be built . " Those who labor the earth , " Jefferson wrote , “ are the chosen people of God ...
... west or not . • • Americans tended to look upon the cultivators of the earth as the foundation upon which a virtuous American Republic would be built . " Those who labor the earth , " Jefferson wrote , “ are the chosen people of God ...
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... West- ern supremacy . Britain , with all her faults , is the commercial center of the world , through her dominion ... Western nations agree that England should hold this , for it is a mighty trust , very dangerous in the hands of a ...
... West- ern supremacy . Britain , with all her faults , is the commercial center of the world , through her dominion ... Western nations agree that England should hold this , for it is a mighty trust , very dangerous in the hands of a ...
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... west . Membership increases rapidly to 700,000 in the next year . " Haymarket Massacre " in Chicago climaxes a bitter strike at the McCormick Harvester Company . 1887-1890 Discontented farmers organize new agrarian organ- izations : The ...
... west . Membership increases rapidly to 700,000 in the next year . " Haymarket Massacre " in Chicago climaxes a bitter strike at the McCormick Harvester Company . 1887-1890 Discontented farmers organize new agrarian organ- izations : The ...
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