Address to the Democratic Convention (1896)

question 85

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Address to the Democratic Convention (1896)
William Jennings Bryan
There are two ideas of government. There are those that believe if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it. . . .
You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. I tell you that the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities, leave our farms, and your cities will spring up against as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
-Which of the following groups would have given the strongest support to the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

• A) the Republican Party of the Gilded Age
• B) those opposed to the expansionist ideas of Manifest Destiny
• C) Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans of the 1790s
• D) abolitionists of the antebellum era

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