This is not a new phenomenon; Republican Tea Party supporters gave the 2010 midterm elections more thought and were more motivated to vote than other Republicans, although all voters in general were paying more attention that year.till, although the Tea Party has been less visible in the election campaigning that has taken place this year in both the primaries and the lead-up to the general election, Tea Party supporters' stronger motivation to vote underscores the group's importance to the election outcome.
The largest citizens' movement of the nineteenth century was: the Farmers Alliance. The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization:
This article is about a specific 19th century movement in USA. For other movements, see peasant movement. The Farmers' movement was, in American political history, the general name for a movement between 1867 and 1896.In this movement, there were three periods, popularly known as the Grange, Alliance and Populist movements.he Alliance movement reached its greatest power about 1890, in which year twelve national farmers organizations were represented in conventions in St Louis, and the six leading ones alone probably had a membership of 5,000,000.