Populist Party Vs Progressive Party

US history 2

BY: Soni Shkodrani

The history of the United Sate of America is indisputably very intense and relatively not long dating. The social and psychological sets that evolved in this contest are very relevant and practically applicable to the present. On one side we have the Populist Party with a solid and significantly relevant number of followers, including Afro-Americans farmers and industrial workers. On the other corner we have the progressive party with an apparently small but underestimate number of potential voters which includes the middle class and above. These two parties do not only reflect the wills of their respective party, they emulate the two ever contradicting segments of the modern society, the poor and
Their interest differed depending on the status that they held. Workers and farmers where very concern on the basic needs that a person might have. On the other hand the middle class man and women ha other concerns as: consumer protection, prohibition, labor laws and more.
If we see it from a perspective that is easy to understand, which is the perspective of a person living more than one hundred years later this facts have happen we might categories them as the populist party as more basic needs oriented and the progressive party as more extra needs oriented. To put these two different worlds in perspective we have to analyze them separately.
The workers and farmers needed simple things as the introduction of silver as a basis for the united stated dollar. This would have made things more easy for the populists because by introducing silver and leaving gold the workers and manly the farmers which had borrowed money from merchants, for the porpoise of investing in their business thus developing a growth in their business, would have it easier to repays the dept considering the fall of value the dollar would incur by this
In present times we tend, at least in well developed countries, to generally not accept the idea the some where there is a child which is working and not going to school or playing. The reason why the progressives where acting in this way regarding this specific mater is evident, they wanted progress. What we don’t immediately consider is the reason why they where there in the first place. The reason is easy to explain and in the same time difficult to understand and approve, the poor families of farmers and workers were not able to make a living without their children working thus they did not even consider the possibility that they might send their children to school therefore incurring extra expenditures for an education. In addition to the reform against the controversial child labor problem the progressives helped with the evolution of the labor laws regarding adults and their basic