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By the time of the Homestead Act ( 1862 ) , these changes spelled the end of the simple agrarian economy that had ... area of chronic agricultural discontent as farmers contended with new economic forces that robbed them of their income ...
By the time of the Homestead Act ( 1862 ) , these changes spelled the end of the simple agrarian economy that had ... area of chronic agricultural discontent as farmers contended with new economic forces that robbed them of their income ...
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There is no longer the American workingman as he once was ; he still gets better wages than the European workingman , but his economic and social status is exactly the same . He has accepted the situation for the present , but what he ...
There is no longer the American workingman as he once was ; he still gets better wages than the European workingman , but his economic and social status is exactly the same . He has accepted the situation for the present , but what he ...
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Writing later to Henry D. Lloyd , Gibson outlined his counter - proposal to competition : “ We must put together our property , labor , economic wisdom , knowledge , varying talents , Christianizing or democratizing what we have and are ...
Writing later to Henry D. Lloyd , Gibson outlined his counter - proposal to competition : “ We must put together our property , labor , economic wisdom , knowledge , varying talents , Christianizing or democratizing what we have and are ...
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Contents
Populist Ideology | 7 |
A Cross of Gold | 23 |
Utopian Conceptions | 29 |
Copyright | |
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