From 1880-1906‚ western farmers were affected by multiple issues that they saw as threats to their way of life. The main threats to the farmers were railroads‚ trusts‚ and the government‚ because these institutions all had the power to drastically affect the ability of the farmers to make profits. Therefore‚ the farmers were not wrong to feel frustration toward those institutions when the institutions caused the farmers to live lives of increasingly extreme poverty. The main source of agrarian
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period 1964 to 1975. (Form B) For the years 1880 to 1925‚ analyze both the tensions surrounding the issue of immigration and the United States government’s response to these tensions. Use the following documents and your knowledge of the period from 1880 to 1925 to construct your answer. 2007 DBQ (Form A) Analyze the ways in which technology‚ government policy and economic conditions changes American agriculture in the period 1865 – 1900. In your answer be sure to evaluate farmers’
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the Great West‚ bringing to a close the long frontier phase of American history. Theme 2: The farmers who populated the West found themselves the victims of an economic revolution in agriculture. Trapped in a permanent debtor dependency‚ in the 1880s they finally turned to political action to protest their condition. Their efforts culminated in the Populist Party’s attempt to create an interracial farmer/labor coalition in the 1890s‚ but William Jennings Bryan’s defeat in the pivotal election
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demolished the security and well-being of people all across the industrializing Northeast and Great Lakes. Unemployment laid low thousands of families. Plagues of grasshoppers in Minnesota and elsewhere in the upper 11 The predicament: the discontents of the Gilded Age The Great Railway Strike of 1877 was not the only disturbance. In 1882 the already large oil-producing companies controlled by John D. Rockefeller were combined into the Standard Oil Trust‚ forming a corporation that by itself
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the farmers felt the oncoming of the Panic of 1893 start while the upper class men were making money. The discontent that effected the farmers was widespread. Throughout the 1880s-1900s‚ farmers were distraught by the many hardships of their lives which led to the downfalls throughout the era. The farmers thought that their way of life was being threatened‚ which caused great discontent‚ and they had a valid reason to complain. Each year‚ the economic situation for the farmers became more and
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Farmers of the Late Nineteenth Century The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American Politics. The country was finally 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 sustenance of the agriculture industry‚ were selling at prices so low that it was nearly impossible for farmers to make a profit off them.
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Farmer’s discontent 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 much manufacturing increased between the years 1849 – 1899. America could no longer aspire to be a nation of small freehold farms. Manufacturers and people living in big cities depended on farmers to pretty much
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To what extent was the Revolution of February/March 1917‚ in Russia‚ due to the nature of Tsarism and the policies of Nicholas II (1894-1917)? The February/March Revolution of 1917 was predominantly caused by the nature of Tsarism and the policies of Nicholas II. The Romanov dynasty had reigned for several centuries as an absolute monarch‚ with the Tsar being the supreme autocratic ruler. It had created a dramatic division in Russian society‚ and when Nicholas II came to power‚ no ruler was so
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C 20 Notes What two issues dominated national politics in the 1870s and 1880s? The money supply and civil-service reform What happened to James Garfield’s presidency? It never really got started because he was assassinated soon after coming to office. Describe voter participation during the late nineteenth century. It was generally very high––usually from 80 percent up to 95 percent. Why did the federal government tend to ignore the social consequences of industrialization
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this discursive is the question of reform versus revolution: two inherently different situations cannot be solved with only one solution. Another reason why the Tsarist regime fell was because the reforms that were introduced did not dissipate the discontent of the general masses: by not solving the grievances of the people effectively‚ this only means that resentment will grow with time and lead to higher expectations‚ which culminated in the climatic movement of 1917. Thirdly‚ the autocratic regime
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