Was the Populist movement a success? Why?

It is true that the Populist Party neither had a successfully elected president and that they as a group faded away. However, the remnants of the group successfully raised awareness of the plight of workers and farmers, giving way to the first farm grants and encoded rights for workers. This would eventually pave the way for child labor being outlawed and the minimum wage.

on this day in 1833, president andrew jackson announces that the government will no longer use the second bank of the united states, the country's national bank. a national bank had first been created by george washington and alexander hamilton in 1791 to serve as a central repository for federal fund