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Populism
"They wanted to support farmers and lower income people.
Graduated income tax with 16th amendment,
direct election of senators with 17th amendment
8 hour day
government regulation of railroads
Populism was in the masses, it was just a movement within people.
Primarily in response to the McKinley Tariff, hurt western farmers
Mainly minority groups"
Progressivism
"They wanted to actually institute what the populists wanted.
They were fighting the “robber barons” who were eastern business men that controlled coal, oil, and farms, and this was bad business for the western farmers.
Progressivism acted through courts and legislation
Woodrow Wilson initiated progressive actions through economics.
Protect consumers.
Mainly middle class. "
The trust busters were part of the movement, they wanted to destroy monopolies including Rockerfeller’s standard oil, but he ended up making money after it was broken up.