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Some of the problems that many farmers in the late nineteenth century(1880-1900)saw as threats to their way of life(a)explain reasons for discontent(b)evaluate the validity of the farmers' complaints
Title: Some of the problems that many farmers in the late nineteenth century(1880-1900)saw as threats to their way of life(a)explain reasons for discontent(b)evaluate the validity of the farmers' complaints
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Some of the problems that many farmers in the late nineteenth century(1880-1900)saw as threats to their way of life(a)explain reasons for discontent(b)evaluate the validity of the farmers' complaints
Documents A-H reveal some of the problems that many farmers in the late nineteenth century(1880-1900)saw as threats to their way of life.(a)explain the reasons for agrarian discontent and(b)evaluate the validity of the farmers' complaints.
In the late 1800s, many farmers were trapped in a vicious economic cycle. Crops
prices began falling and farmers were often forced into mortgaging their farms so they
could buy more land and produce more crops …showed first 75 words of 762 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 762 total…increase in supply of
greenbacks with the addition of unlimited coinage of silver, which was partly accepted
with the passage of the Bland-Allison Act in 1878, adding two to four million to the
silver supply each month. The issue of the farmer's debt stuck around, however, as
railroads took their bite accordingly, suffocating farmers with high transportation pricing.
Reform had been inevitable at this rate as farmers had no way of rising from the vicious
cycle.
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