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“While despised and rejected for a season, won triumphantly in the end.” This quote by John Hicks in 1931, which perfectly states the relationship between Populism and Progressivism. As Populism faded after its rejection in 1892 and 1896 Presidential Elections, a new Progressive platform emerged and took on the goals of Populism. The Progressive reform accomplished its goals as well as the goals of the Populists.Populism had many goals and aspects, which it pursued and tried to achieve. These aspects were, to reintroduce silver as the monetary base instead of gold, a gradated income tax, government control and ownership of the railroads, secret ballots, direct election of United States Senators, immigration restraints, postal savings banks to compete with private banks, an eight-hour work day, federal government housing of crops, initiative, referendum and recall. The Populist Party, which only existed during the elections of 1892 and 1896, saw few of their ideas become laws or be passed as bills. The first that was passed was the Australian or secret ballot, which was passed in the 1880’s and by the First World War; the entire country was using it. The second goal that they achieved was
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