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Good Day.
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Mr Amador.
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To them going to talk about the politics and reform
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of US.
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history in the late 1800s.
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The late 1800s, The 19th century was the time of
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social reform in the United States.
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The division between Republicans and Democrats and the corruption prevented
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lawmakers from taking care of the population because of the
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economic problems in the country.
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A group of farmers called the former Alliance in Land
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passes texas was formed in 18 87 which was basically
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an organized economic movement.
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Amongst these american farmers.
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They embraced a new political movement called populism and created
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the People's Party at the same time, the southern states
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for discriminating the african americans By denying them the rights
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to vote and enforcing segregation or separation from the rights
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group. In this period, Republicans and Democrats were so evenly
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matched that only a few reforms were possible at a
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national level.
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This generate a conflict between those in July two of
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1881, President James A.
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was killed for many people.
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This highlighted the need for changes.
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Mhm. Well, we're going to talk about the two parties
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democratic and Republicans, although many people thought corruption prevented lawmakers
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from addressing the nation problems.
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New policies were introduced between the 1870s and 1880s, even
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after the creation of the New People's Party, Republicans and
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Democrats were still the largest political party in the country.
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Well, the republicans had a baudinet, mostly in England and
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in the Middle West.
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The south was mostly dominated by the demo, the democrats.
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So the patterns that gave the democrats an edge in
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the House of Representatives, were voters in each congressional district,
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elected a member directly during these times.
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Twice as happened, the candidate lost the popular vote, but
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won the election.
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Still, even if the candidates won several states that still
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received the electoral votes, which was the each state had
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assigned a certain number of votes, this was the electoral
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votes. The president often had consented to white uh House
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of Representatives, sorry, dominated by the democrats and the senate
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dominated dominated by the republicans During this era.
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The local political buses control the party, which this generate
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a conflict between of creating political reforms between the Democratic
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Party and the republican party.
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Mhm. Then we have the election of 1884 during the
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election of 1880 for the Democrats saw their best chance
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of winning the White House since before the civil war.
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Why? Because the Republicans nominated James G.
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Blaine and the Democrats Cleveland.
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Many people believe that the corruption was the main problem
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in the government so they judge the candidates by their
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moral. They had just been accused of several crimes, including
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of profiting financially from political favor.
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Some republicans were so unhappy with playing that they started
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for Cleveland.
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Lane also met with protests, protests and minister has an
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irish catholic because of what he must of the irish
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american vote.
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Cleveland on New York won by a margin of about
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1000 votes out of one board than one million cast
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in his victory decided the next election, Which basically the
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Democrats won this election.
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And would there would be a span of between 50
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years between the end of the civil war and the
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next presidential election of 1912 that would be spent on
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the democratics.
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Mm And we have that commerce, trust and tariffs.
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Economic issues overshadowed soon.
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The debate about political form, the power of large corporation
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concerned americans as well as the small businesses like farmers
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that had become angry at the railroads either than democrats.
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Nor the republicans try to solve these problems because they
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believe politics should not interfere in this kind of problems
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that Congress could not agree with the tariffs, because high
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tariffs help protect domestic manufacturing after the Civil War.
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And several 18 87 President Grover Cleveland proposed lowering tariffs.
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Uh the House, there was almost full of the democratics
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passed the tariff reduction, but the Senate that was controlled
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by the republicans, the the opposite party rejected the bills
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and this became an issue in 1988.
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Collections in this generate a conflict with several reforms.
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The same issue mentioned earlier because this was a conflict,
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they try to lower the tariffs economic, but start to
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improve this type of conditions with People's Party that was
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created by the farmers Group.
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We're ahead Yeah.
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Here, uh the farmers alliance, an American a gradient movement
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during the 1870s and 80s that sought to improve the
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economic conditions for the farmers to the creation of co
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operatives and political advocacy movement was made up of numerous
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local organizations that collect into three large groupings.
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Uh huh.
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The term populism came to using the 19th century.
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Our alongside the promotion of democracy in the 1960s, the
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term became increasingly popular among social scientists in Western countries.
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And later in the 20th century it was applied to
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various political parties and active active liberal democracies.
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Mhm. And this is basically a video the election of
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18 86.
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As the elections approach to People's Party Alliance focused Silver,
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they also hold their conversion after the Republican and Democratic
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Convention because they lead republicans will endorse a gold standard
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and also expected the democrats to nominate Cleveland again and
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hope that the people will strongly endorse silver for democrats
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could abandon their party and joins People's party alliance at
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the end of the silver crusade died out and the
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populist last year momentum.
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Um, this is basically the conflict between the opposing parties
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and how the published lost their opportunity to win this
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type of election resistance of repression.
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While many african americans eventually left farming and such jobs
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in south and turns towns, sorry others joined poor american
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white farmers and created the Farmers national Alliance and challenge
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the Democratic Party in the south to win back the
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poor white vote.
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Democratic leaders basically began appealing racism.
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Officials Also began using various methods to take it harder
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and harder on African Americans vote.
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You can see the segregation and separation of this between
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these two groups in the 1800s.
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They also created rest in restaurants, schools and many other
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places where they would be separated and were discriminated against.
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We have this, whatever was talking about is legalizing segregation,
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which is basically in 1983, the Supreme Court set the
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stage for liberal segregation by overturning the civil rights in
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a that was created in 1875 after the reconstruction.
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The states in the south passed laws that african americans
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from voting and segregated schools, restaurants and public accommodations.
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As I mentioned, the plastic mr Ferguson was a popular
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case in which the U.
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S. Supreme Court on 18 on may the 18th, 18
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96 by 71 vote.
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Majority one justice did not participate uh, advance the controversial
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separate but equal doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial,
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which is uh, it is basically a case that will
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desegregation as a legal issue and created and legalized basically
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As long as both were provided as both.
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As long as both facilities were provided for the both
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races. The decision was handed out by 1-7, both as
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mentioned before, And this was a very important case in
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the history of the 1800s because of the legalization of
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segregation. Okay, so we have the african americans response.
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The Africans americans face more than legal segregation.
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The mob violence increased between 1990 1999 was an average
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of 187 engines.
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Ida B Wells was a very young woman from Tennessee
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who launched a fearless crusade against lynching in 18 82
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which is basically a bunch of lynching and protest against
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it.