Farmers

Farmers discontented during the period 1870 1900 had an impact on their attitudes and actions towards national politics. During this time period manufacturing had a huge growth spurt and agricultural began to decline. This made it harder for farmers to make a living. Document G shows how often manufacturing increased between the years 1849 1899. the States could no longer aspire to be a nation of low freehold farms. Manufacturers and people living in big cities depended on farmers to pretty much keep them alive.Many people didnt realize how much of an repair farmers had on their everyday lives. If you took farms away from the United States during this period of time, everything would have alone crashed. Farmers had difficulties making a living because the rates of organism a farmer were so high. nothing has done more to smart the western region than these freight rates. (Document F) The high rates of macrocosm a farmer made it difficult to pay payments on the lands and the rate of pastime was rapidly rising.Some farmers couldnt even sell their drive at a reasonable profit. These farmers worked long, hard hours and the government wasnt on their office closely paying them with a decent income yet they wanted so much from the farmers. Along with farm prices failing, force prices were increasing. Railroads were important to farmers because they took farmers out to their lands, carried their produce of hard work to markets, and brought them the manufactured goods that they needed.Many farm settlements were established well-nigh railroads because of this reason. Railroad managers were forced to charge very high rates and because of it, that message farmers would have to pay more money to use railroads when they already employ enough money keeping their crops alive. Document B talks about how it was also hard for colored farmers to make a living curiously after the Civil War. They had to get the local merchant or psyche else to supply the food for t he family to eat while the first crop was being made. (Document B)They couldnt pay pertain and by the end of the first year, they tack together themselves in debt. The attempt in the second year didnt go so well either because they had old debts plus new interest to pay. Many of the colored farmers had almost given up hope (Document B) Not exclusively was money an issue for farmers but also in the recent 1880s and early 1890s crop suffered severely from droughts. It was cool and alter which was unfavorable for all crops.This made it difficult for farmers to keep their crops alive. By the former(a) 1880s, farmers were so fed up with everything that they created the Farmers Alliance, seeking to overthrow the chains from the banks and railroads that edge them. The Farmers Alliance merged with other liberal Democrats to form the democrat political party. They strived for railroad regulation, tax reform, and unlimited coinage of silver. In the election of 1892 the Populist Party no minated James B.Weaver for president and as Document D shows, most of the farmers in the west, mainly Nevada, voted for the Populist Party because that party was grow in the frustration of the farmers and they needed miscellany.The farmers were furious with the way things were going for them and they had hoped that the Populist Party would help. Even though they didnt win the election, they made a remarkable showing with 1,029,846 popular votes and 22 electoral votes. These electoral votes only came from the midwestern and western states. With the creation of a new party, out of discontent, the farmers managed to change national politics.