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Encyclopedia: United States Greenback Party
The Greenback Party (also known as the Independent Party, the National Party, and the Greenback-Labor Party) was an American political party that was active between 1874 and 1884. Its name referred to...
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In 1878 members of the Greenback Party joined with urban trade union groups to establish the Greenback Labor Party. James Weaver emerged as leader of the...
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In 1878, however, certain labor organizations, embittered by the labor troubles in 1877, united with the advocates of cheap money in the Greenback-Labor party, and the combination party polled over 1 million votes and elected 14 Representatives to Congress that year.
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In 1878, a congressional election year, the organization changed its name to the Greenback-Labor Party and supplemented its membership by taking in workers. They received more than one million votes nationwide and elected 14 party members to Congress.
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The Greenback Labor Party was formed in the years following the American Civil War. During the Civil War, the federal government issued Richardson, Darcy G. Others: Third Party Politics from the Nation's Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party. New York, NY: IUniverse, Inc., 2004. -
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Greenback greenbacks greenbackers labor money reform question silver gold monopoly banks bankers currency fiat 1800s Welcome to greenbackparty.org. This site is dedicated to preserving and promoting the principles of the Greenback Labor Party. I discovered the Greenback Labor Party as a part of my research into the...
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The congressional elections of 1878 marked the height of power of the Greenback-Labor party, which polled about 1 million votes and elected 14 representatives to Congress. In the following year, economic conditions in the nation improved, and interest in politics among the workers and farmers decreased.
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This review is from: Others: Third-Party Politics From the Nation's Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party (Hardcover)
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by Darcy G. Richardson (Author) ; Key Phrases: labor reformers, order party, major party rivals, New York, United States, Van Buren (more...) This item: Others: Third-Party Politics From the Nation's Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party by Darcy G. Richardson...
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GREENBACK-LABOR PARTY, or NATIONAL PARTY. Workingmen's parties have always been occasional features in state and local politics. About 1877 they began to be more general, and the grievances which led to the railroad riots of that year gave them a national importance.
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