Returning to Chapter 17, review the strategies and goals of the labor and agrarian organizations that flourished in the 1880s. The People’s Party embodied many of those ideas. Imagine that you are a journalist inter- viewing a former People’s Party leader in 1917. To what extent might he or she have said that progres- sives had, after 1900, fulfilled the agrarian-labor agenda? To what extent might he or she criticize progressives for failing to achieve important reforms? What do you conclude from this about the similarities and differences of populism and progressivism?

Returning to Chapter 17, review the strategies and goals of the labor and agrarian organizations that flourished in the 1880s. The People’s Party embodied many of those ideas. Imagine that you are a journalist inter- viewing a former People’s Party leader in 1917. To what extent might he or she have said that progres- sives had, after 1900, fulfilled the agrarian-labor agenda? To what extent might he or she criticize progressives for failing to achieve important reforms? What do you conclude from this about the similarities and differences of populism and progressivism?