Farmer DBQ
During the span of 1880-1900 farmers began to feel as if their ways of life were being threatened. Farmers felt that a competition with railroads in monopolies and trusts, currency circulation shortage, and the powerful forces of Mother Nature seemed to be putting them in debt or even out of business. However, not all of the currency circulation shortage complaints could be brought up against the government, monopolies, and trusts. Over production, and bad weather accounted for these problems, which made the farmers complaint's not completely valid. Competition was a major contributing factor to farmer discontent. Farmers were constantly competing with monopolies and trusts. Railroads were putting most farmers in the brink of bankruptcy. Groups formed to help the farmers like The Grange tried to get some relief from monopolies, but they were just too influential. It came to a halt when the Wabash case made by the Supreme Court said that groups like the Grange had no power to regulate interstate commerce. (f) Monopolies were dictating the way the farming industry was as a whole. (h) Farmers sent their products all over the country in orde
The government was not to blame for all of the farmer's problems. The government has absolutely no control over the weather. Just because there is rainstorm in the West, is no reason to stop business in the East. Farmers had never mentioned how they over produced the land. America simply didn't need that much food. (e) Farmers were producing more than could be consumed. This made the government upset, and they felt that the farmers should not complain about what they had no control over, or what they had brought upon themselves. The farmers did have some cause for complaint, but everything can not be controlled, and sometimes there is just no one to blame for things. In the end, The Farmers of America was just a disorganized group of individuals, who had no money, and nothing to show for their hard work. I wrote it from the stuff in my noggin. ON the AP test it scored a 4.
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Approximate Word count = 868
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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