People's Party

(noun)

The People's Party, also known as the "Populists," was a short-lived political party that reached its height in 1896, when Democrats nominated their candidate, William Jennings Bryan, for president. This party was based among poor, white farmers in the South and Midwest. The party expressed hostility to banks, railroads, and elites, sometimes allying with labor unions.

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  • The People's Party and the Election of 1896

    • Discontent with the two major political parties during the 1896 election year led to strong third party efforts by the People's Party.
    • In early 1896, with the economy still poor, there was widespread discontent with the two existing major political parties.
    • Some people—mostly Democrats—joined the far-left Populist Party.
    • By 1896, the Democratic Party took up many of the People's Party's causes at the national level, and the party began to fade from national prominence.
    • Assess the significance to the Populist Party William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign

  • The Farmer's Alliance

    • The Farmers' Alliance moved into politics in the early 1890s under the banner of the People's Party, commonly known as the "Populists."
    • In 1889–1890, the alliance was reborn as the Populist Party.
    • The Populist Party, which fielded national candidates in the 1892 election, essentially repeated in its platform all of the demands of the alliance.
    • In 1892, the Farmers' Alliance founded the People's Party, and the Ocala Demands were incorporated in the party's Omaha Platform.
    • The Populist Party grew directly out of the Farmers' Alliance.

  • The Populist Party and the Election of 1896

    • The Populist Party backed the Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election.
    • The People's Party, also known as the "Populists Party", was a short-lived political party in the United States, established in 1891 during the Populist movement.
    • The terms "populist" and "populism" are commonly used for anti-elitist appeals in opposition to established interests and mainstream parties.
    • As a minority member of the resolutions committee, Bryan was able to push the Democratic Party from its laissez-faire and small-government roots towards its modern, liberal character.
    • His "Cross of Gold" speech made him the sensational new face in the Democratic party.

  • Tension with the USSR

    • The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a revolt against the pro-Soviet People's Republic of Hungary's government that was crushed by the military intervention of the Soviet Union.
    • The brief period of multi-party democracy came to an end when the Communist Party merged with the Social Democratic Party to become the Hungarian Working People's Party, which stood its candidate list unopposed in 1949.
    • The People's Republic of Hungary was then declared.
    • From 1950 to 1952, the Security Police forcibly relocated thousands of people to obtain property and housing for the Working People's Party members.
    • During the night of October 23rd, Hungarian Working People's Party Secretary Ernő Gerő requested Soviet military intervention "to suppress a demonstration that was reaching an ever greater and unprecedented scale."

  • Political Parties

    • Partisan style political parties varies according to each jurisdiction, depending on how many parties there are, and how much influence each individual party has.
    • In single-party systems, one political party is legally allowed to hold effective power.
    • One right wing coalition party and one left wing coalition party is the most common ideological breakdown in such a system, but in two-party states political parties are traditionally parties that are ideologically broad and inclusive.
    • Australia, Canada, People's Republic of Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Ireland, United Kingdom, and Norway are examples of countries with two strong parties and additional smaller parties that have also obtained representation.
    • More commonly, in cases where there are three or more parties, no one party is likely to gain power alone, and parties work with each other to form coalition governments.

  • Modern Chinese Painting

    • Throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, Chinese painting evolved under the influence of the People's Republic and exposure to the West.
    • By the early years of the People's Republic of China (formed in 1949), however, artists were encouraged to employ socialist realism.
    • The Hundred Flowers Campaign was a period in the People's Republic of China during which the Communist Party of China encouraged its citizens to openly express their opinions of the communist regime.
    • The Cultural Revolution was a sociopolitical movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976.
    • Set into motion by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China, its stated goal was to preserve "true" Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society During the Cultural Revolution in 1966.

  • Non-Democratic Governments: Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Dictatorship

    • By contrast, a single-party state is a type of party system government in which a single political party forms the government and no other parties are permitted to run candidates for election.
    • Typically, single-party states hold the suppression of political factions, except as transitory issue oriented currents within the single party or permanent coalition as a self-evident good.
    • The Communist Party of China's single-party rule of the People's Republic of China is a prominent contemporary example .
    • In this sense, dictatorship (government without people's consent) is a contrast to democracy (government whose power comes from people) and totalitarianism (government controls every aspect of people's life) opposes pluralism (government allows multiple lifestyles and opinions).
    • XVII Congress of the Communist Party of China held in 2007.

  • Chairman Mao and the People's Republic

  • Dictatorship and Totalitarianism

    • Totalitarian regimes stay in political power through all-encompassing propaganda campaigns (disseminated through the state-controlled mass media), a single party that is often marked by political repression, personality cultism, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of speech, mass surveillance, and widespread use of terror.
    • In this sense, dictatorship (government without people's consent) exists in contrast with democracy (government whose power comes from people) and totalitarianism (where government controls every aspect of people's lives) exists in contrast with pluralism (where government allows multiple lifestyles and opinions) .
    • In 1972, Nixon traveled to China and met with Mao Zedong, the leader of the totalitarian Chinese Communist Party.

  • Nixon in China

    • Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in easing relations between both nations.
    • Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an important step in easing relations between the two countries.
    • Nixon met and engaged in intense negotiations with Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party.