A History of the Farmers Alliance in the United Stated in the 1880’s (1500 words, 7 pages)
Farmers AllianceIn the 1880s, as drought hit the wheat-growing areas of the Great Plains andprices for Southern cotton sunk to new lows, many tenant farmers fell into deepdebt. This exacerbated long-held grievances against railroads, lenders,grain-elevator owners, and others with whom farmers did business. By the early1890s, as the depression worsened, ...
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