Did you know that the wizard of oz isn't actually about red shoes and green witches? It was written by an angry populist.
Tornado- Populist movement
Dorothy- Woman/ the average American
Toto- The temperance movement (in the way of alcohol kind of temperance)
Kansas- What America is like (black, white, grey)
Wicked Witch of the East- Eastern Monopolies
Munchkins- child labor
Scarecrows- farmers (no brain)
Tin Woodsman- Machines/ factories (no heart)
Cowardly Lion- William Jennings Bryant
Yellow Brick Road- Gold Standard
Silver Slippers- Silver standard
The Group- Coxey's army
The poppy field- heroine
Emerald City- Washington DC
Oz- Utopian America
The Wizard- President Cleveland
Wicked Witch of the West- Western monopolies
Flying Monkeys- Pinkertons, American Indians
Glinda the Good Witch- Alliances of the South- Farmers Alliances
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