SS8H7 EXAMPLE BOOK

TOM WATSON and the POPULIST POLITICAL PARTY

As a US Congressman and Senator from Georgia and leader of the Populists Political Party, Tom Watson helped support Georgia’s poor and struggling farmers. He created the RFD (Rural Free Delivery) which helped deliver US mail to people living in rural areas that helped build roads and bridges. Tom Watson opposed (was against) the New South movement and many of the conservative Democrat politicians. He believed that new industry in the south only helped people living in urban areas and did not benefit rural farmers. Early in his career Tom Watson tried to help both white AND black sharecroppers, but later in politics he became openly racist supporting disenfranchising blacks.

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Since standard SS8H7 is asking you to analyze (investigate) we want you to talk about who Tom Watson was and who were the Populist Party. For example what type of work did he do? What did the party stand for? What information can you tell us about his background and beliefs? What did he create and how did it help or hinder (hurt) Georgia? Where did he provide his services? For example, was it in the city or in rural areas? How did his beliefs change? When did this occur, meaning what time period.

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TOM WATSON and the POPULIST POLITICAL PARTY As a US Congressman and Senator from Georgia and leader of the Populists Political Party, Tom Watson helped support Georgia's poor and struggling farmers. He created the RFD (Rural Free Delivery) which helped deliver US mail to people living in rural areas that helped build roads and bridges. Tom Watson opposed (was against) the New South movement and many of the conservative Democrat politicians. He believed that new industry in the south only helped people living in urban areas and did not benefit rural farmers. Early in his career Tom Watson tried to help both white AND black sharecroppers, but later in politics he became openly racist supporting disenfranchising blacks.

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