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Farmers' Discontent in the 1800s-
Title: Farmers' Discontent in the 1800s-
Category: History
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Farmers' Discontent in the 1800s-
Farmers' Discontent in the 1800s-
The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American
politics. The country was for once free of the threat of war, and many
of its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades
went by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live
comfortably. Crops such as cotton and wheat, once the bulwark of
agriculture, were selling at prices so low that it was nearly
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…showed last 75 words of 1425 total…unfair and
unreasonable price increases, happened in very few occasions; in fact,
prices went down in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Finally, history has proven that their view of silver as a way to end
deflation and the decrease in crop values was inaccurate. The farmers
of the period, though, used these issues to change the shape of
American politics and bring it face to face with the problems the
country was facing.
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