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American History: Election of 1896: It Came Down to a Question of Money

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This program, part of The Making of a Nation from Voice of America gives a very good description of the issues in the presidential campaign of 1896. Learn about the differences between the gold bugs and silverites, a third party campaign, and the eventual results.

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populism, william jennings bryan
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Additional Tags
depression of 1893, gold standard, silver standard, 1896 campaign and election, campaign and election of 1896, cross of gold speech, national democrats, populists, president grover cleveland, william mckinley
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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