Various political and social groups and movements arose throughout the United States during the nineteenth century. One such movement that became popular in the Midwest and South was populism. Populists’ ideas tended to revolve around the “common man” and were connected to farmers’ alliances. The movement was focused on reforming political, social, and economic structures in the United States through a third party. Populism was a grassroots ideology and attracted primarily nonelites in the regions in which it was popular. As in other movements, populists used their own newspapers and articles in general papers to push propaganda about society’s shortcomings. The movement was also well known for using political cartoons that stressed populists’ complaints about society and politics. Political cartoons were extremely important in the nineteenth century in bringing ideas to a broad audience.