Ocala Demands

Examples of Ocala Demands in the following topics:

• The Farmer's Alliance

  • The Southern Alliance also demanded reforms of currency, land ownership, and income tax policies.
  • Meanwhile, the Northern Alliance stressed the demand for free coinage of large amounts of silver.
  • The Ocala convention was part of a trend in the farmers' movement to move from its fraternal and mutual-benefit roots toward an increasingly political and radical position.
  • The convention produced the "Ocala Demands," which included a call for the abolition of national banks, an increase in circulating money, free silver, industrial regulations, a graduated income tax, lower tariffs, and the direct election of U.S. senators.
  • In 1892, the Farmers' Alliance founded the People's Party, and the Ocala Demands were incorporated in the party's Omaha Platform.

• The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements

  • These were known as the Ocala Demands.
  • Agrarian spokesmen in the West and South demanded a return to the unlimited coinage of silver.

• Economic Conditions

  • These requests were known as the "Ocala Demands."
  • Agrarian spokesmen in the West and South demanded a return to the unlimited coinage of silver.

• The XYZ Affair

  • The XYZ Affair refers to the bribes demanded by French agents in the negotiating dispatches to cease French seizures of American vessels.
  • These included a demand for 50,000 pounds sterling and a 250,000 personal bribe to French foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand.
  • Republicans in Congress, thinking Adams might be hiding the truth about the agreements reached by the American and French delegates, demanded he release the French proposals.
  • Realizing that the release of the negotiation dispatches would play in his favor, Adams decided to release government dispatches that detailed how France had demanded bribes from the United States before any peace settlement would be discussed.
  • "X" was Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, "Y" was Pierre Bellamy, and "Z" was Lucien Hauteval, and the demand came during a meeting in Paris, France.

• Cotton in the South

  • The Industrial Revolution contributed to the European demand for cotton.
  • The increased supply of cotton also increased demand for textile machinery, and improved machine designs used metal instead of wooden parts.
  • The production of cotton increased in other parts of the world, such as India and Egypt, to meet the demand.
  • Surdam (1998) asks, "Did the world demand for American-grown raw cotton fall during the 1860s, even though total demand for cotton increased?
  • " Previous researchers have asserted that the South faced stagnating or falling demand for its cotton.

• Slavery and Empire

  • The European demand for New World cash crops, especially sugar, tobacco, rice, and cotton, led to a demand for labor to cultivate these crops.
  • Unlike American Indians, Africans had a limited natural immunity to yellow fever and malaria; however, malnutrition, poor housing, inadequate clothing allowances, and overwork contributed to a high mortality rate which further increased the demand for the importation of Africans to replenish the labor supply.
  • In the North American colonies, the importation of African slaves was directed mainly southward, where extensive tobacco, rice, and later, cotton plantation economies, demanded extensive labor forces for cultivation.
  • Discuss the historical trend of slavery, the increasing demand for slave labor in the New World, and the various groups that resisted slavery

• Black and White Abolitionism

  • Historians traditionally distinguish between moderate antislavery reformers or gradualists, who concentrated on stopping the spread of slavery, and radical abolitionists, whose demands for unconditional emancipation often merged with a concern for black civil rights.
  • After 1849 abolitionists rejected this and demanded it end immediately and everywhere.
  • The Garrisonians, led by Garrison and Wendell Phillips, publicly burned copies of the Constitution, called it a pact with slavery, and demanded its abolition and replacement.

• The Middle Classes

  • After 1720, mid-Atlantic farming was stimulated by the international demand for wheat.
  • Farmers also expanded their production of flaxseed and corn, as flax was in high demand in the Irish linen industry and corn was in high demand in the West Indies.

• The Panic of 1819

  • When existing banks refused to lend money to small farmers and others without a credit history, state legislatures chartered new banks to meet the demand.
  • This shaky economic scheme worked only so long as people were content to conduct business with paper money and refrain from demanding that banks instead give them the gold and silver that was supposed to back it.
  • If large numbers of people, or banks that had loaned money to other banks, began to demand specie payments, the banking system would collapse, because there was no longer enough specie to support the amount of paper money the banks had put into circulation.
  • After the Napoleonic Wars came to an end, European demand for American foodstuffs decreased as agriculture in Europe began to recover.
  • a reduction of tariffs (largely proposed by southerners, who believed free trade would stimulate the economy and increase demand);

• The Federal Reserve Act

  • Moreover, Wilson convinced Bryan's supporters that because Federal Reserve notes were issued by the government, the plan met their demands for an elastic currency.
  • The decision to create twelve regional banks was meant to weaken the influence of the powerful New York banks, a key demand of Bryan's allies in the South and West.